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 CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"The management of SLOs and their related burn-rate monitors have allowed us to onboard teams to on-call fast."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"Datadog's log aggregation is really helpful since it lets me and every other engineer on my team login, view, and share logs when we need to debug our application."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"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 tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"They could have better log reporting."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"There is always room for improvement when dealing with cloud-based technologies. Mainly, I would say, it's just increasing our offerings to attract various other types of industries and businesses across more fields."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"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."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"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."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
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 IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM). See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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