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."
"Its integration definitely stands out. It provides seamless monitoring of all our systems, services, apps, and whatever else we secure and monitor. Visualizations have become simpler with dashboards. We are getting visibility into systems, services, and apps stack through a single pane of glass, which is good. We are able to put logs in context."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"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."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"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."
"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."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"I've only been using Datadog for a few months, and at first, it was frankly overwhelming in terms of both the UI and the available capabilities."
"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."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"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."
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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