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."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"We have been able to set very specific CPU and memory alerts, at the very base level, then we started to pull real business value, like 99th percentile response rates for our API calls."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"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."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"We have asked technical support questions, and sometimes they don't get back to us right away. Or when they do, it is not the right answer."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"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 biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
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 Elastic Observability, 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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