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."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"The visibility that it provides is valuable. It is helping in being proactive around incident management. It is helping us to be able to get more visibility into our customers' applications so that we can assist them at the application layer. We also provide them the infrastructure from an AWS standpoint. We are able to make sure that our customers are aware of certain critical things around the analytical piece of either the network or the application. We're able to call customers before they even know about the issue. From there, we can start putting together some change management processes and help them a bit."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"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."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"It is easy to navigate."
"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 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."
"Datadog needs more local Asia-Pacific support, and if they don't have a SaaS solution in Asia-Pacific, they should offer an on-prem version. I'm told that's not possible."
"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"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 ease of implementation needs improvement."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"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."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
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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