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 stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"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."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"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."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"Nagios allows us to configure any device so that we can send pager alerts when people don't have access to emails. It also allows us to schedule downtime and maintenance."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"Though I downplayed the administrative NCC GUI, this is by far the strongest aspect of the Nagios XI product."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"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..."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"The product's stability could be even better."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The PNP4Nagios plugin not working easily with XI is an issue for me, because some open source monitoring plugins do not work out of the box. But in the end, you learn to live with it."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
"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."
"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."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
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 DX Unified Infrastructure Management, 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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