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 ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"Datadog has a lot of features to be able to drill down deep into the swath of logs that our platforms generate."
"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."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"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."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"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."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"I would love to see support for front-end and mobile applications. Right now, it is mostly all back-end stuff. Being able to do some integration with our front-end products would be awesome."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"This service could be less costly."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"When the logs are too big, and Datadog splits them, the JSON format breaks and it is not so useful for us."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
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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