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 observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"The platform appeals to companies spanning many industries on a global scale."
"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"This spectrum of solutions has allowed us to track down bugs faster and more rapidly, which allows us to limit revenue lost during downtime."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"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 helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"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."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"Their security features could be improved. We looked at their Security Monitoring feature but it was early in its development. Datadog are just getting into the security space so I'm sure this will improve in the future."
"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."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"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."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 136 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 14th 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 HPE Intelligent Management Center. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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