We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and ThousandEyes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network 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."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"It's an expensive solution."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics. See our DX Spectrum vs. ThousandEyes report.
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