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."
"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."
"The monitoring of the applications to let our business know when things are performing and that they're up and available."
"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."
"It is easy to implement."
"It is very scalable."
"Probe packages and probe deployment."
"One of the things that I like about DX Infrastructure is that the topology is good enough to see what is happening in the infrastructure. You also get alerts if something is happening in the network. There are many features and benefits. It is serving our customers in knowing exactly how their network is performing in terms of reliability. It also helps them in planning the capacity. They know how much bandwidth the branches are consuming."
"It's easy to push out across numerous servers. Very scalable."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"One of the best features is the reports feature."
"With just three modules, I can monitor server performance (whether it’s a VM, in the cloud, or an on-premises server."
"This solution offers a very good view of our network and allows us to effectively monitor performance."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"Currently lacks a mobile application which would be helpful."
"We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level."
"Stability."
"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."
"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."
"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"The root cause analysis and installation faults are not clear."
"It would be good to have high security."
"The solution does not offer much customization so is somewhat inflexible."
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 25th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 120 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 6th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 146 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 "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, 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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