We performed a comparison between IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."My organization can leverage IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to learn more about how clients perform because the solution lets you monitor and optimize devices and apply best practices."
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"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"It shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know up front."
"The solution is easy to use and easy to manage."
"It's easy to understand."
"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"Spiceworks' dashboard allows you to drill down to the notes, where I can take an inventory of the network and see the devices I need to monitor."
"What I want to improve in IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is the community aspect, where IDERA would provide customers with updates on functionalities, what comes next, what IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor upgrades would be released, etc. I also want the sustainability of IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to improve."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
"The GUI must be improved."
"I would like to see more information when drilling down into access permissions, assignments management, or tagging. When I click a note or a device, I should be able to see more details about the router and modem. For example, I want to see the version, downtime, availability, latency, etc. I should have easy access to everything about our assets at a glance."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"They've also tried to integrate it with social logins, like Twitter and LinkedIn, and that type of login authentication has no place in a corporate application."
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IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is ranked 50th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 5 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 32nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews. IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is rated 8.0, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor writes "It offers different licensing types that allow you to extend the services to clients; it lets you look into device performance and optimization and helps apply best practices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus.
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