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."
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"The flexibility to create notebooks and dashboards and fully customize them gives us a lot of power to track the exact services and endpoints we are working on."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"It helps us better manage our logs."
"Dashboards and their versatility are among the most valuable features."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"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."
"The fault management is perfect."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The Wi-Fi side 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."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"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."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"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."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
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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