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."
"Most of the features in the way Datadog does monitoring are commendable and that is the reason we choose it. We did some comparisons before picking Datadog. Datadog was recommended based on the features provided."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"Datadog's log aggregation is really helpful since it lets me and every other engineer on my team login, view, and share logs when we need to debug our application."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"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."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"Datadog could improve the flexibility with AI and ML concepts. This will allow customers to be more leveraged towards publishing."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"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."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 136 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 IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM). See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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