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 visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"We rely heavily on the API crawlers that Datadog uses for cloud integrations. These allow us to pick up and leverage the tags teams have already deployed without having also to make them add them at the agent level."
"The integration into AWS is key as well as our software is currently bound to AWS."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"The service catalog helped improve our organization by giving a good view of the flow for our microservices applications."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"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."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"One area where I was really looking for improvement was the CSPM product line. I had really wanted to have team-level visibility for findings, since the team managing the resources has much more context and ability to resolve the issue, as the service owner. However, this has been added to the announcement in a recent keynote."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"It does not have the best interface."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"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."
"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."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
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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