We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two DX NetOps solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"The fault management is perfect."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth."
"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."
"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."
"SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical."
"NTA's most valuable feature is traffic analysis and visibility."
"In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"I would like to see better customization capabilities."
"This solution does not do a very good job when I am trying to look deeper into my internal network, in particular with respect to individual ports."
"What needs improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is performance because sometimes, my team struggles too much for the solution to perform correctly for a specific deployment in my organization. Having a more detailed view in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is another area for improvement, but that's more part of the protocol than the actual solution."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature."
"It can be complex to set up and configure."
"It's scalable, but it could be simplified because it's not completely easy."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. 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 SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and Darktrace. See our DX Spectrum vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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