We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and WhatsUp Gold 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."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"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."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"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 product is old and not updated."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"The interface needs some work."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 40th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our DX Spectrum vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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