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 feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"Overall, the Data UI and the usability of customer features continue to improve."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The fault management is perfect."
"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 feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I find the training great. That said, it is set for the LCD (lowest common denominator). Of course, this is very helpful to sell the product, yet, to really utilize the product, you need to get more detailed."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"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."
"It would also be nice if we had more insight into our own usage of Datadog (agents and custom metrics). They provide a usage page which does help, but it is not in real-time."
"The real issue with this product is cost control."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is 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 like to see CA move Spectrum, Performance Manager, and some of their other tools moved to a SaaS based model. You see a lot of other manufacturers which are moving toward SaaS based models."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
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 ThousandEyes. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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