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 has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"I don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"Datadog has given us near-live visibility across our entire cloud platform."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"Since we integrated Datadog, we have had increased confidence in the quality of our service, and we had an easier time increasing our delivery velocity."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Datadog has a lot of features kind of cramped into one dashboard. It's quite hard to get around what feature does exactly what. There was a steep learning curve, trying to navigate through menus."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"When I started using it years ago, it had stability problems. I remember, specifically, we ran everything in Docker containers. There were some problems getting it into a Docker container with very specific memory limits."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
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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