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 granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"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."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"It is easy to navigate."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"Though I downplayed the administrative NCC GUI, this is by far the strongest aspect of the Nagios XI product."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"The features I've found the most useful are the plug-ins, the fact that you can connect almost everything to it. That's very useful."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"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."
"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"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."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered."
"Open-source software is usually not 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 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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