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."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"Its logs are most valuable."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"Overall, the Data UI and the usability of customer features continue to improve."
"The dashboards and the performance of the software have been great."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"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."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
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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