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 biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"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."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The fault management is perfect."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"Federated views for Datadog dashboards are critical as large companies utilize multiple instances of the product and cannot link the metrics or correlate the metrics together. This stunts the usage of Datadog."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"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."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
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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