We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The fault management is perfect."
"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."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"It shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know up front."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"Spiceworks' dashboard allows you to drill down to the notes, where I can take an inventory of the network and see the devices I need to monitor."
"Tickets by e-mail, with actions by hastag."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"The solution can find all asset details automatically, whether it's a Mac address, computer name, IP address, models, etc. It's very helpful."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"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."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"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."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"The GUI must be improved."
"I would like the solution to allow for more direct interaction with computers. I can open tickets and I can see their status, but I can't interact directly with the computers themselves."
"With Spiceworks, like, when I open the websites, I have to Zoom in. I need to zoom in on those websites sometimes because it makes it horrible to use."
DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 32nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. 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 Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. See our DX Spectrum vs. Spiceworks report.
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