We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and PRTG Network Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring 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."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The integration point."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The solution provides us with needed feedback on our IT infrastructure. It gives us really good quality of service when it comes to monitoring of available space and available resources. It allows us to preempt issues before they become a problem for the business."
"Ease of set-up – it is quick and easy to add a probe and start collecting data from a device."
"This solution provides us with the needed feedback on our IT infrastructure. It allows us to grab all the information from a single point of view."
"The solution is very easy to use and the web provides information with ease."
"I like the mobility of the PRTG Network Monitor and ITOps Dashboard."
"The solution is scalable."
"The technical support seems to be quick, clever, and has a comprehensive knowledge base online, which is fantastic."
"The remote probe feature in PRTG Network Monitor helps you monitor remote systems or your network at a lower cost than other solutions."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"Sometimes, it is difficult to drill down further to get information, e.g., if we saw spike in traffic, then we would want to drill down and find out what is causing that spike in traffic."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve the reports. In the reports, you have to give an alert for that SMS and email, the emergency calls and downtimes have to be reported accordingly. You have to enable email services or an SMS gateway service to receive more alerts at the proper time."
"I would like the ability to monitor Cisco IRS devices."
"While the desktop app is good, they could slightly improve it. We would like it to be a single pane of glass. At the moment, you can only see certain portions of information. You have to scroll through to make it more granular. We want them to develop the desktop app to be more user-friendly."
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve the price."
"PRTG Network Monitor should improve the NetFlow dashboard, there is no flexibility, and the NetFlow is not meeting the business needs. Additionally, they are missing part of the configuration management."
"When using PRTG Network Monitor it is beneficial if you have prior experience with it, the user interface could improve."
"The technical support service should be improved."
DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 6th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 96 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and Cisco DNA Center, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager. See our DX Spectrum vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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