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 empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"The most valuable features of Datadog are the flexibility and additional features when compared to other solutions, such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Some of the features include AI and ML capabilities and cloud and analysis monitoring"
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"The performance of Datadog is good."
"Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"The fault management is perfect."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"It is easy to navigate."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"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."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"The correlation between the logs and the metrics needs improvement as most cases, we might use another logging tool (that is cheaper in cost) which we then have to link together."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"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 solution's stability needs improvement."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"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."
"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."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"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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