We performed a comparison between DX Performance Management and SolarWinds NPM 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."
"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."
"Downloads and records are the most valuable features."
"It gave us one location, one place to do all of group administration, and to build dashboards, and device administration, inventory counts... it really reduced our overall administrative overhead."
"What is most useful is visibility."
"Scalability is the reason we bought the product to begin with. It was designed from the ground up for carrier-grade services, and we are in effect a MSP ourselves. So we were really interested in looking at something to be able to handle the multi-tenancy and scale as large as possible. This was the only solution that we really considered at that level."
"It is very easy to add devices; just be aware that it requires SNMP to be enabled."
"The feature that is inherent to its core, of being able to graphically represent a trend and status, is nice."
"I can get it to run a report showing, for instance, what root drives are in the critical range in terms of being full, like 90 percent full, and disseminate that information to the other areas of the organization."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It is scalable."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"The ability to customize the views and dashboards is nice. SolarWinds also allows us to access the data via the API. That's probably the feature I liked the most."
"SolarWinds dashboard is very fast. Also, their interface is very good, it looks very user-friendly. The product allows me to see a summary of the network being monitored at a glance."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to have more tasks, graphs, and possibilities for linking to the graphs and reports added to the solution."
"The quantity of views which are tied to specific metric families is too high. Also, the problem is the view doesn't tell you which metric family it uses, so you don't know why you don't see data."
"Even though we can see when something is not available, it would also be it would be nice if some sort of alerting took place to that you could know immediately if something went down."
"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."
"CA PM Business Hours Filtering: I understand that all monitoring systems have defects. The Business Hours Filtering does not always function properly. Sometimes, when applying business hours to CA PM reports that are 30 or more days in duration, the report generation times out and does not display results. We have other CA PM reports that, when we apply Business Hours Filtering, the report results displayed are the same as without the filter. We are not sure if this is a defect in CA PM or if it is a result of our complex configuration (folder structure) and application of business hours."
"Global synchronization errors. Sometimes it just doesn't finish in time due to the load."
"Install is done as root, which is a security no-no, and the database IO requirements were not stated correctly, which lead to a year of instability."
"There are some areas in the technology right now, like with VMs, where we are lacking with our abilities to get inside the VM to monitor traffic within the machine."
"Currently lacks integration with SMS services."
"If they could combine everything into one product, that would be very helpful."
"The price of the solution can be improved."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve the graphics of the interface and more customized reporting."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
DX Performance Management is ranked 37th in Network Monitoring Software with 31 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. DX Performance Management is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. 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 SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". DX Performance Management is most compared with DX Spectrum and OmniPeek, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our DX Performance Management vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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