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."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"The installation step is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"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 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."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"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."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It does not have the best interface."
"We would like to see some versioning system for the Synthetic Tests so that we could have a backup of our tests since they are time-consuming to make and very easy to damage in a moment of error."
"I've only been using Datadog for a few months, and at first, it was frankly overwhelming in terms of both the UI and the available capabilities."
"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."
"One area where I was really looking for improvement was the CSPM product line. I had really wanted to have team-level visibility for findings, since the team managing the resources has much more context and ability to resolve the issue, as the service owner. However, this has been added to the announcement in a recent keynote."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"I find the training great. That said, it is set for the LCD (lowest common denominator). Of course, this is very helpful to sell the product, yet, to really utilize the product, you need to get more detailed."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"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."
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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