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 tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"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."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system."
"You want to monitor a specific metric that nobody else has? You can do it even with the most basic of scripting skills, and you can always share it with the vast community of Nagios Exchange."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"Nagios XI is stable."
"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 a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"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."
"I would like a much easier GUI so that I can delete events and logs, which will free up a lot of space."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
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 Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga. See our DX Spectrum vs. Nagios XI report.
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