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."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"The flexibility to create notebooks and dashboards and fully customize them gives us a lot of power to track the exact services and endpoints we are working on."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"It lets us react more quickly to things going wrong. Whereas before, it might have been 30 minutes to an hour before we noticed something going on, we will know within a minute or two if something is off, which will let us essentially get something back up and running faster for our customers, which is revenue."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"This spectrum of solutions has allowed us to track down bugs faster and more rapidly, which allows us to limit revenue lost during downtime."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"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 plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"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 CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"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 give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
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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