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 gives an alarm when there's something going on, not just when there's an expected spike that happens every night on a server."
"It is reliable when it comes to monitoring."
"Probe packages and probe deployment."
"I can use the Drag and Drop feature to build dashboards within minutes."
"It is easy to implement."
"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."
"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."
"Technical support is great."
"There are a lot of options for customization of the dashboard, alerts, and reports."
"As we look to add more servers to our virtual environment and to understand the impact, the solution allows us to dig into the historical charts related to capacity planning."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"There are a lot of valuable features with SolarWinds NPM. We can receive a lot of detailed data from the monitoring that can use useful for investigations, especially when you are troubleshooting. It is very helpful. Overall it was a very good experience."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"Reporting capability can be improved especially when it comes to availability."
"Making a GUI with criteria such as selection by robot/hub/probe etc."
"We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user friendly for our system administrators."
"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."
"We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level."
"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"Currently lacks integration with SMS services."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"If they could combine everything into one product, that would be very helpful."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"The SolarWinds notification and alerting configuration could be simplified as it would be easier to find if it was within the NPM web application instead of in a separate client application."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"Robustness of network element mapping tool could be better"
"An area for improvement would be the use of modular licenses, which are not practical for big clients."
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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 147 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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