We performed a comparison between Datadog and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"Datadog's log aggregation is really helpful since it lets me and every other engineer on my team login, view, and share logs when we need to debug our application."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"The installation step is pretty straightforward."
"Datadog has helped us a ton by allowing us to set up a multitude of easily configurable alarms across our tech stack and infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"The service catalog helped improve our organization by giving a good view of the flow for our microservices applications."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"I would like to see CA move Spectrum, Performance Manager, and some of their other tools moved to a SaaS based model. You see a lot of other manufacturers which are moving toward SaaS based models."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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