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."
"Monitoring infrastructure and business applications are the most valuable features."
"Having all of our information within one tool set; our alerts, our monitors, and the things that our operations team needs to function."
"Technical support is great."
"Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics."
"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."
"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 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."
"It is reliable when it comes to monitoring."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We deployed the solution from new and completed the upgrades."
"I found a lot of valuable features in SolarWinds NPM, such as the customized application monitoring that allows you to customize any monitoring and script customization, and you also have the option to deploy and upgrade SolarWinds NPM online, which is very useful for my organization."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"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."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We want to see more investment in the UI and the dashboard."
"We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level."
"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."
"The UIM has no features through goods and services yet. "
"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."
"We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user friendly for our system administrators."
"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."
"I think it can be improved by a greater provision of specialized technical support, as there are very few trained personnel there."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"The solution does not offer much customization so is somewhat inflexible."
"If they’re going for a “cover everything” approach, then they need to do so and enable a bit more of the "cover everything approach" within every one of the tools."
"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 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."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"The dashboard of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
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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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