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."
"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 gives us visibility inside applications. It helps us to dig down and find the root cause of any issue within the network."
"Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."
"Another division handed us the opportunity to monitor their solutions as written, and UIM was very useful for that."
"Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics."
"It is very scalable."
"You can integrate clouds, hybrid infrastructure, and on-premise infrastructure into one product."
"The number of probes available. Out of the box, I believe about 200 probes are available. And, if there's a probe that is not available, you can write one. You can also go to the communities and suggest, and based on demand, CA will write one for you."
"I love the GUI. Almost everything is accessible through the web interface. It is very user-friendly. It is easy to drag and drop resources wherever you want them."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"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."
"I can do everything remotely, including running PowerShell scripts or performing standard updates."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The benefit of this solution is the reporting. We're able to report on and see our network in a graphical form. We are able to detect when a device is added to a network."
"This solution offers a very good view of our network and allows us to effectively monitor performance."
"The solution is extremely stable. We haven't had any issues in that regard. We haven't had issues with bugs, glitches, or crashes."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We've had issues with pulling reports."
"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."
"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."
"Stability."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"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."
"There is also room for improvement in the reporting. It is not really good enough, according to our customers. So what we now usually do is use Power BI to get them the kinds of reports they want."
"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."
"Robustness of network element mapping tool could be better"
"Each model has different features, so clients need to purchase a separate model for SQL monitoring, database monitoring, network traffic analyzer, HTTP traffic, etc. So each feature they need is in a different model, but customers would prefer an all-in-one solution."
"The dashboard of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"The solution could be more secure."
"It has covered everything, so no improvement is required at their end. The only thing is the price."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
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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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