We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum, Splunk APM, and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom and others in DX NetOps."It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The integration point."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"Health and communication links availability."
"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."
"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."
"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."
"In terms of customization and integration, we have more flexibility. We can automate configurations, define deletion rules, and customize based on the needs. The client interface allows for further configuration, making it quite comprehensive."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"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."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."
"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."
"Its UI should be improved. They did some improvements in version 5, but it could benefit from some more work. Its integrations should also be improved. They've been active for one year, and they seem to have noticed that. It has new integrations, but it could benefit from more integrations. As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this."
