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 most valuable feature of Datadog is its logs."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"Its integration definitely stands out. It provides seamless monitoring of all our systems, services, apps, and whatever else we secure and monitor. Visualizations have become simpler with dashboards. We are getting visibility into systems, services, and apps stack through a single pane of glass, which is good. We are able to put logs in context."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"It is a good one stop location where we keep all our data for our infrastructure, and it's also easier to navigate between different things."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"The RUM solution has improved our ability to triage faster and hand more capabilities to our customer support."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If there were a more cost-effective manner of deploying the tool, we'd be more likely to adopt it more widely."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
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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