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."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"I don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"It is easy to navigate."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"I'm not sure what kind of features are in the roadmap right now, but I encourage the development of features for defining your organization, and allowing the visibility of what kind of metrics you can get. Those features would be really useful for us."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
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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