We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Zabbix 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 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."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"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."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"Zabbix is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"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."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"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 only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."
"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"The documentation could be improved."
"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 98 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Zabbix 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 Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center, ThousandEyes and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core. See our DX Spectrum vs. Zabbix report.
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