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."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"Datadog is easy to use and easy to deploy. It's a better solution compared to others on the market in terms of being budget friendly for our customers."
"Dashboards and their versatility are among the most valuable features."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"The management of SLOs and their related burn-rate monitors have allowed us to onboard teams to on-call fast."
"It is easy to navigate."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"At the beginning, when we started throwing logs at it, there was a bit of hiccup. However, this was during their beta period, so hiccups were expected."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"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."
"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."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"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."
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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