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."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"It has enhanced the performance of my team."
"It is a good one stop location where we keep all our data for our infrastructure, and it's also easier to navigate between different things."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"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."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The fault management is perfect."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"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."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"Datadog needs more local Asia-Pacific support, and if they don't have a SaaS solution in Asia-Pacific, they should offer an on-prem version. I'm told that's not possible."
"We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"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."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
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 Elastic Observability, 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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