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."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"The most valuable features of Nagios XI are you can customize it based on your use case and requirements. It is flexible and easy to integrate with our systems. You can customize the solution by adding additional features using code."
"The installation is no problem. I've installed Nagios several times."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"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."
"The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
"The product's stability could be even better."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"The installation and monitoring need improvement."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
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, Wireshark and Icinga. See our DX Spectrum vs. Nagios XI report.
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