We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Splunk On-Call based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom and others in DX NetOps."What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"It is easy to navigate."
"Transmogrifier and automatic solution report gives me a report with the solution and the way to solve issues when an error occurred."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is helpdesk escalation."
"The flexible schedule is the most valuable feature. It was very easy to set out a rotation."
"VictorOps has been good enough for us and it's effective for our needs in case of an on-call escalation process."
"The alert calling feature is the best because notifications are delivered via phone messages."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"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."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"The solution can be improved by including a wider list of permissions."
"Should have more YouTube webinars."
"At that stage, all our needs are fulfilled, but at the beginning, we had some feature requests and they were deployed during their roadmap."
"The third-party configuration tool could be easier to use."
"There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert."
DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while Splunk On-Call is ranked 8th in IT Alerting and Incident Management with 10 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Splunk On-Call is rated 8.6. 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 Splunk On-Call writes "Allows us to create flexible schedules for on-call rotations". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Splunk On-Call is most compared with PagerDuty Operations Cloud, Opsgenie, New Relic, Everbridge IT Alerting and xMatters .
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