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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"I really enjoy the RUM monitoring features of Datadog. It allows us to monitor user behavior in a way we couldn't before."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"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."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"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."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"The product could be improved by providing remote control to agents, enabling them to execute automation and collections without requiring another automation tool or integration."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"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..."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"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."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
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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 Nagios XI. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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