We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and ThousandEyes 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."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"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."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"It's an expensive solution."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics. See our DX Spectrum vs. ThousandEyes report.
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