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."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"The most valuable features of Datadog are the flexibility and additional features when compared to other solutions, such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Some of the features include AI and ML capabilities and cloud and analysis monitoring"
"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."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The fault management is perfect."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"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."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
"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."
"It does not have the best interface."
"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."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"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."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
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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