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."
"It is the foundation for our monitoring solution."
"It provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for our open systems."
"It delivers our customers many metrics, so they may make decisions"
"The ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."
"I recall the initial setup being straightforward."
"I definitely appreciate the flexibility and ease of use. We've been using UIM for almost three years now. It's pretty much point and click, very easy to use. And we've had no problems scaling it to our own environment."
"Technical support is great."
"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its graphical interface and reports."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"The nice thing about SolarWinds is that it's kind of all-in-one. I can manage the status of my networking devices, whether they are up or down, I can see how much traffic is going across an interface, and I can run a report that tells me exactly what that traffic is."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"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."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."
"DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"I think it can be improved by a greater provision of specialized technical support, as there are very few trained personnel there."
"The company has not kept pace with developments."
"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."
"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."
"We've had issues with pulling reports."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"The tool can only monitor up to 1000 instances in a single SolarWinds console. Customers may have over 1000 instances. Hence, it needs to support a minimum of 1500 instances. It should also improve support."
"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."
"Application Performance Monitoring should be included in this solution."
"The reporting module that got integrated into the system itself, used to be a standalone solution and I preferred that."
"There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
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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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