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 lets us react more quickly to things going wrong. Whereas before, it might have been 30 minutes to an hour before we noticed something going on, we will know within a minute or two if something is off, which will let us essentially get something back up and running faster for our customers, which is revenue."
"Datadog has helped us a ton by allowing us to set up a multitude of easily configurable alarms across our tech stack and infrastructure."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"It helps us better manage our logs."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"Overall, the Data UI and the usability of customer features continue to improve."
"The dashboards are great."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"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."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"It would be great if usage metrics were automatically created and we could create custom metrics, instead we ended up building some of our own stuff to track and alert on our own usage."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"We would like to see some versioning system for the Synthetic Tests so that we could have a backup of our tests since they are time-consuming to make and very easy to damage in a moment of error."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
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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