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."
"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 platform appeals to companies spanning many industries on a global scale."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The most valuable feature of Datadog is its logs."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"It has enhanced the performance of my team."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"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."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The fault management is perfect."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"There is always room for improvement when dealing with cloud-based technologies. Mainly, I would say, it's just increasing our offerings to attract various other types of industries and businesses across more fields."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"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 think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
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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