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 solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"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."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature."
"The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"Though I downplayed the administrative NCC GUI, this is by far the strongest aspect of the Nagios XI product."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"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."
"It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"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."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"I would like a much easier GUI so that I can delete events and logs, which will free up a lot of space."
"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
"The product's stability could be even better."
"The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors."
"It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
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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