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."This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"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."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"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 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 solution is easy to use and easy to manage."
"The solution can find all asset details automatically, whether it's a Mac address, computer name, IP address, models, etc. It's very helpful."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"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."
"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"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 CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"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."
"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."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
"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."
"They've also tried to integrate it with social logins, like Twitter and LinkedIn, and that type of login authentication has no place in a corporate application."
"The GUI must be improved."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"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."
DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 11 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 46th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 5 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Makes it easier to understand root cause and troubleshoot". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Allows for separate accounts for different enterprises, enabling efficient management of computers across various sites and clients". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and HPE Intelligent Management Center, 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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