We performed a comparison between DX Performance Management and Meraki Dashboard 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."
"There is another component of the tool called Network Flow Analysis. It gives us the ability to troubleshoot issues which do not appear right away."
"We're able to present data from multiple back-end collection sources into a single dashboard for the users. So they don't have to go to multiple locations to get data about a particular item, or device."
"When devices are having performance issues, it proactively build dashboards which allow us to go and do health checks, and resolve problems before they become an issue."
"Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on."
"The most valuable feature of DX Performance Management is the quick way we can collect data without putting much effort. They have a lot of customization and features with the solution internally and out of the box. We can discover the device, and start collecting information. For example, if the device is available, we can receive the CPU and memory utilization, and the interface optimization is simple and very fast to implement."
"The integration with NetFlow, the NFA solution, so that we can have our flow forensics paired with the SNMP polling performance metrics on the same page."
"The capability where not only the traditional SNMP information is captured but also the netflow data; who is consuming the data on the WAN, and voice-related information, is helpful. The voice quality makes it very easy for first- and second-line operators to see where the issue is, and who is impacted."
"You can create intelligent alerts so you have enough time to replace the router or interface before it's full. The same is applicable for CBQoS channels."
"The most valuable feature is the single pane of glass that gives you multisite visibility."
"You don't have to be a network engineer to use it."
"The ability to view the entire project stack, including the camera, features, and routers, which I believe are the most important or relevant components."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"The dashboard itself is very simplified and easy to navigate."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"The ease-of-use and the analytics are really effective tools."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I think it would be helpful having a more comprehensive set of certifications so that I could natively deploy devices to my environment and the tool would immediately recognize and immediately be able to provide relevant performance information without a lot of tuning on my part."
"This solution is not very scalable."
"We would like to be capable of reporting network performance with a report strictly focused on the times outside business hours, which CA PM does not currently support. We have discontinued the use of the Business Hours Filtering until CA engineers are able to resolve or offer guidance."
"I would like to have more tasks, graphs, and possibilities for linking to the graphs and reports added to the solution."
"It seems like we escalate more than I would like to. If anything, they should look at how the tier support goes in place."
"Since we are out of registered IP space, we are moving to ipv6 and we expect our vendors to move with us, and they have not delivered yet."
"This tool gathers so much data, which makes it hard to convert over. To upgrade it, you really need the solution backed up. That is the issue that we are facing right now."
"We experience disconnections between the solutions own components."
"This solution can be quite complicated to configure and manage, unless you have a technical person with specific knowledge working on it."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"What we would like from the IT perspective is a lot more granular control, more visibility into the packets, into the routing, and things of that nature."
"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"There is a bit of a problem when you try to log in and you don't have a fixed IP address. If you're granting access, you need to log in by using the IP address. If your administrator's IP address is not a fixed IP address and it has changed, you might need to update the changed IP address in the interface. For this, you need to log in to the interface to update the IP address. This issue might not have so much to do with Meraki interface."
"They could offer API functionality for Meraki Dashboard. It will help us develop software immediately using available solutions."
"The MDM, however, is bad. We're using another MDM now because Meraki was so bad."
DX Performance Management is ranked 36th in Network Monitoring Software with 31 reviews while Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews. DX Performance Management is rated 8.2, while Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DX Performance Management writes "The vertical database loads faster than any other product available". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". DX Performance Management is most compared with DX Spectrum, Zabbix and OmniPeek, whereas Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix. See our DX Performance Management vs. Meraki Dashboard report.
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