We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Observer Apex based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"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."
"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 Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"Network visibility is the most valuable feature."
"The Wi-Fi side 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."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"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."
"The pricing and AI can be improved."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while Observer Apex is ranked 93rd in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Observer Apex is rated 0.0. 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 Observer Apex writes "Has good network visibility ". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Observer Apex is most compared with .
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