We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and SolarWinds NPM 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 Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"One of the best features is the reports feature."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"Having more technical and support resources available in Saudi Arabia would be helpful."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"We decided that we were no longer going to trust that their products have not been capitalized."
"A feature I would ask for is for them to have this solution available for Linux systems instead of Windows."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"SolarWinds could offer more support and insights for a broader range of devices. Currently, it focuses on routers, switches, and some load balancers. However, it lacks an out-of-the-box dashboard for monitoring firewalls and some other modern network security devices. We have to customize it a lot."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 146 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds NPM 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 SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, Cisco DNA Center, ThousandEyes and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor. See our DX Spectrum vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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