We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and ITRS Geneos 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 most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The solution's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play."
"In my experience, being able to monitor our databases is a valuable feature as we can create our own queries and aren't reliant on the in-built ones."
"The ability to completely tailor and customize what it's monitoring is one of its strongest points. A lot of other monitoring tools are good at certain things, but one of my colleagues described it as the “Swiss Army Knife” of monitoring tools. It can do anything you want."
"The biggest benefit of Geneos is the fact that we can clearly see, if we have an alert, where that alert has come from. We can see the data around that alert and anything that might be relevant is also shown. We can very easily right-click and see why we've received that alert. That's the best part about it, that you've got all the data there with the alerting."
"The clean and colorful UI and easy to use options like snooze and active times."
"The remarkable feature of Geneos is the dashboard. Geneos' flexible dashboard sets it apart from other monitoring tools. Other solutions have limitations in their dashboard design and can't be customized as much. The Geneos dashboard allows unlimited creativity."
"Real-time log monitoring with desktop alerts is valuable as it tells us immediately when there is an issue."
"The NetProbe carries over 100 samplers which are capable of monitoring hardware, OS, and the application layer."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs 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."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"Sometimes, if there is a lot of data coming onto the servers, we have observed a little bit of slowness on the gateway servers which are doing the ITRS dashboard monitoring."
"Much of the reporting outside of the user interface is very basic and requires much customization to be useful."
"Backward compatibility with deprecated features and in system documentation on what configuration areas are needed to be updated."
"ITRS have started to make some major changes that we haven't taken on board yet, in the creation of dashboards and more visibility of the metrics that we collect. At the moment, that's something that's lacking, but I know they have addressed it. Still, it’s not that easy to create stuff to help with visibility and dashboarding in Geneos."
"The deployment method for upgrading is a bit tricky. It takes a little bit of manual effort. If that could be a bit more automated, it would help us a lot."
"ITRS Geneos is not on the cloud at a time when everyone is moving to the cloud."
"ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 16th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while ITRS Geneos 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 ITRS Geneos writes "The flexible dashboard sets it apart from competing tools, but it's costly and lacks scalability". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus and Datadog. See our DX Spectrum vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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