We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Zabbix 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 stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The integration point."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The fault management is perfect."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"Zabbix is scalable."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The product is very stable."
"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."
"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"I would like to see CA move Spectrum, Performance Manager, and some of their other tools moved to a SaaS based model. You see a lot of other manufacturers which are moving toward SaaS based models."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."
"The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance."
"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 98 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Zabbix 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 Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center, ThousandEyes and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core. See our DX Spectrum vs. Zabbix report.
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