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."
"I can use the Drag and Drop feature to build dashboards within minutes."
"You can scale it pretty much however way you want to as long as you have the servers to throw at it."
"Monitoring infrastructure and business applications are the most valuable features."
"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 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."
"You can integrate clouds, hybrid infrastructure, and on-premise infrastructure into one product."
"We are able to go in and actually leverage the thick client for a nice easy drag and drop solution."
"It gives us visibility inside applications. It helps us to dig down and find the root cause of any issue within the network."
"The interface is user-friendly, making it easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"The stability is fantastic."
"With just three modules, I can monitor server performance (whether it’s a VM, in the cloud, or an on-premises server."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We deployed the solution from new and completed the upgrades."
"It is scalable."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We want to see more investment in the UI and the dashboard."
"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."
"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."
"We've had issues with pulling reports."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"Making a GUI with criteria such as selection by robot/hub/probe etc."
"DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved."
"The company has not kept pace with developments."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NPM is the short retention period. Currently, it's just for seven days of data, which is very low, making it hard for my organization to keep that data. SolarWinds recommended a seven-day retention period, but my organization needs a fourteen-day data retention period. Hence, I'd like an increase in the retention period or the database limit in SolarWinds NPM because you can't go back to the data for any investigation if seven days have passed. Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NPM is the database, which needs to be a bit more mature. I want a modified database in the next release of SolarWinds NPM. I'd also like more options added to groups because, currently, it's very limited."
"The reporting module that got integrated into the system itself, used to be a standalone solution and I preferred that."
"We decided that we were no longer going to trust that their products have not been capitalized."
"This solution would benefit from expanding on the capabilities within the API."
"We'd like to see a bit more automation in the future."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 26th 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 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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