We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Nagios XI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring 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-quality graphical interface."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios XI is customization. We can customize based on our requirements. We can do modifications and implement a lot of scripts. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"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."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"The way Nagios displays information isn't easy for a new user to understand. It's not intuitive enough. You need to read some tutorials or be trained to understand what it's displaying. Also, I think it needs more features to improve network visibility because there are some things you can't detect."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up."
"The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered."
"The product's stability could be even better."
"The installation and monitoring need improvement."
"I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Nagios XI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and vRealize Network Insight, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga. See our DX Spectrum vs. Nagios XI report.
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