We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Zabbix 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"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."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"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."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"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."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"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."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"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."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."
"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 100 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Zabbix 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 Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center, ThousandEyes and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our DX Spectrum vs. Zabbix report.
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