We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Nagios XI 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."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"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 is stable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"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."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"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."
"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."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"Nagios XI can improve network and hardware monitoring, these parameters should be simplified to allow usage for monitoring. Additionally, if there was automatic reporting it would be helpful."
"It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
"It can be quite difficult to know which drivers and agents to use when setting up."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
"I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it."
"The reporting part should be made simpler. While we can obtain all the reports we need, we always have to create work-arounds to get them."
"The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software 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 Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Icinga and Wireshark. See our DX Spectrum vs. Nagios XI report.
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