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 enhanced the performance of my team."
"The feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"Dashboards and their versatility are among the most valuable features."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"The integration point."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"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."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"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."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"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."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 136 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 14th 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 HPE Intelligent Management Center. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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