We performed a comparison between DX Unified Infrastructure Management and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud 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 real value is our being able to pull all the historic data that we need in order to gather every little metric and nuanced piece of information from a given device, a given piece of infrastructure, in order for us to generate alerts."
"Probe packages and probe deployment."
"It delivers our customers many metrics, so they may make decisions"
"It gives an alarm when there's something going on, not just when there's an expected spike that happens every night on a server."
"The feature that we've found to be very helpful is the way the solution categorizes the devices to identify groups, groups of devices and clusters. This allows us to be aware of their position within the topology."
"Scalability and flexibility. The product can grow with your infrastructure so you don't have to install other products. Just add components. It's very simple."
"You can scale it pretty much however way you want to as long as you have the servers to throw at it."
"It reduced cycles for a lot of quick out-of-the-box functionality. It also allowed us to get away from being stuck in SNMP, VTP V2, based off of agent deployment."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"From web interfaces to custom monitors and alarms, this product has a high level of flexibility that can be molded to suit your business needs, regardless of the size of your organization."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I like SolarWinds support because it's 24/7. You describe your issues, your situation and maybe two or three hours later you can discuss a solution with a technical engineer."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."
"We've had issues with pulling reports."
"Currently lacks a mobile application which would be helpful."
"I'd also like to see more probes. More probes in the sense that we were coming across devices that we're expected to monitor and manage for which, out of the box, there isn't a nice, clean solution. There are probes that are dedicated for certain devices and certain device types, which is great. But then there are times we come across nuanced products that we have to develop our own solution for. There are probes that exist in there that allow us to make a customized solution, but it takes a lot more time."
"I would like to see auditability. We've built our own audit functionality to ensure that every CI has the desired model configuration applied to it. And we run that on a daily basis. If that became part of the product, I think it might be a little bit less intensive in terms of resource, because we're doing it with scripts."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"The tool can only monitor up to 1000 instances in a single SolarWinds console. Customers may have over 1000 instances. Hence, it needs to support a minimum of 1500 instances. It should also improve support."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"The integration with video apps could be better."
"The integration needs to be improved."
"A feature I would ask for is for them to have this solution available for Linux systems instead of Windows."
"This solution would benefit from expanding on the capabilities within the API."
"We are looking to change away from this solution because of the documentation and the solution doesn't have enough integration in our country. The documentation is too weak."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 26th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 8 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 6th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 30 reviews. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "A simple product that is easy to deploy and very easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "Simple to set up with good visualizations and helpful support". DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager and Nagios XI, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor. See our DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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