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's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"Datadog has helped us a ton by allowing us to set up a multitude of easily configurable alarms across our tech stack and infrastructure."
"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've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"The integration point."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"We have asked technical support questions, and sometimes they don't get back to us right away. Or when they do, it is not the right answer."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"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."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"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."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
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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