We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Nagios XI 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"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."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"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."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"It is easy to navigate."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"The features I've found the most useful are the plug-ins, the fact that you can connect almost everything to it. That's very useful."
"Nagios XI helps us monitor the bandwidth of the internet connection, HTTP, DNS, active directory services, and exchange data availability. We have multiple servers to monitor databases, availability of servers, and ping."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"The most valuable features of Nagios XI are you can customize it based on your use case and requirements. It is flexible and easy to integrate with our systems. You can customize the solution by adding additional features using code."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"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."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"The product's stability could be even better."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"The installation and monitoring need improvement."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Nagios XI 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 Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and vRealize Network Insight, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga. See our DX Spectrum vs. Nagios XI report.
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