Spiceworks Stability

Hassan Zia - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Desk Manager (Global Delivery) at MLOGICA, INC.

Despite lacking some advanced features, I can confirm that Spiceworks is a stable solution.

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Saifallah Chakroun - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at MTF Industriel

It's quite stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. 

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Fernando Cezario - PeerSpot reviewer
Level 2 Support at Tigs

I've never experienced the website being down.

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Spiceworks
March 2024
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Jeetendar Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Analyst at The Aga Khan University Hospital (Pakistan)

I have never faced any downtime. When we increased the inventory, the tool became very slow. So, we increased the RAM, and it was automatically fixed.

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JV
IT Director at Dondlinger Construction

It's stable. It's well developed and the maintenance is pretty simple aside from having to go in and take out old devices. But you don't really have to mess with it to keep it running. Every once in a while something will glitch up. I just have to restart it and it works fine. This only happens maybe once every six months. 

Usually, if I have to restart it, it's because the server that's hosting it has shut down and it didn't restart correctly or something like that. The servers reboot periodically, so sometimes it doesn't come back up cleanly or whatever and I restart it. But for the most part, it's pretty maintenance-free when it comes to glitches and stuff.

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Michael Ojieh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Spiceworks is stable, but I think more work needs to be done to make it more stable and globally accepted so it can compete with solutions like SolarWinds.

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LA
Senior IT Support at ProCook

I have not had any issues with stability.

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NM
Interim Director of Information Technology at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Overall, the stability is fairly decent. It's pretty good. I've got some reservations about how any resource you click on goes out to the Cloud. I could also do with the UI advertising being a little less. I've inadvertently clicked on several of the ads thinking it was going to show me some value-added feature within Spiceworks and I get bounced off to some other place, but that's not what I want. And I am a bit emotionally triggered and pissed off because of it because it's wasting my time and it's not what I want.

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WaelQenawy - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Customer Relations Manager at Qootco

The solution is very stable.

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it_user265281 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager / Senior Network Engineer at Warnock, Tanner & Associates

Stability has been solid for all the years I have used this product.

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MA
IT Project Team Leader at OCI fertiizers

The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient.

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it_user372372 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technal Support Specialist Contractor at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't had any issues with the stability.

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it_user381603 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Technology at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

There were no issues encountered with the stability.

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it_user273492 - PeerSpot reviewer
Spiceworks Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The stability of the program is remarkably good, with some exceptions. As I've noted, any installation in excess of 2500 nodes is going to be slow and it requires some extra work to maintain and configure. If you don't do it right, the application will perform poorly and crash. Similarly, there are plug-ins that you can add (written by IT pros) which may decrease reliability. Overall, however, I think it's very good. I wouldn't say perfect; my test install fails about twice a week and requires a service restart.

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it_user371481 - PeerSpot reviewer
Help Desk Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I encountered with stability problems, but I suspect that it was a local server issue.

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it_user273753 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Technician at The Godolphin School

We have not encountered any problems.

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it_user273747 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

I almost never experienced problems.

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it_user373110 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support and Development at a local government with 51-200 employees

There was no issue with the stability.

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it_user362487 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT freelancer/consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The server would become sluggish as more assets were populated in the system.

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it_user278463 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator/Technology Coordinator at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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KC
Senior Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

Spiceworks is stable for our purposes.

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it_user381549 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

We have no issues with the stability.

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it_user372003 - PeerSpot reviewer
System and Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

The stability is excellent, but it can be affected by poorly written 3rd party add-ins, so beware.

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it_user374160 - PeerSpot reviewer
Interim IT Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

As our database grew in size, so did the frequency we had to restart the application on the server. Spiceworks had a memory leak that would eventually bog down the server it was on and force us to restart the service, which would take about 45 to 60+ minutes. Obviously these restarts never came at optimal times. By the time we were getting ready to retire Spiceworks, we were restarting the service twice a month.

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it_user286839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Group IT Director at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user375372 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

It regularly fails when we're upgrading.

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it_user1379664 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Account Manager at On_Serve

I think we did have some trouble, but it was not really the fault of Spiceworks. It was more the way that we reconfigured our firewalls and ports, so it couldn't discover the many things. And with all this stuff going on with ransomware and stuff like that, it's going to be challenging for all of those companies to be able to browse a network, including your network equipment, but not allowing any ports open. It's kind of difficult.

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it_user371781 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stability has been a problem only a few times but barely a blip.

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it_user350622 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator - Backup & Storage Specialist at METRO SYSTEMS Romania

Only issue was with scalability. After some time, as the back-end DB grew bigger, the solution started to perform slower. In the end we even had to reset the DB and archive the old one so it could run smoothly again.

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it_user369390 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Administrator & Infomation Security Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No, none whatsoever.

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it_user369525 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterpise Business Systems Engineer (Lead Network Systems and Security Engineer) at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability is lacking. We have to restart the software about one two too times a week.

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it_user362919 - PeerSpot reviewer
Advanced Service Desk Agent at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, too many. We tried it on a VM, but we had to reboot every 2 days. We migrated it on a real server, new installation, etc., but despite the fact that the server resources are really over-scaled (8GB ram, disk 15,000 rpm, etc.), we still have problems, slowness, stability, crashes, etc. The only positive is that we do not have to reboot every 2 days. It's sometimes 2 weeks before we have a problem.

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it_user381501 - PeerSpot reviewer
Starlan Consulting Services at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

There were issues with the stability.

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it_user381480 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There have been no issues with its stability.

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it_user381519 - PeerSpot reviewer
Research Associate at a media company with 51-200 employees

I don’t know the technical details, but I know that stability became a huge issue after about eight months especially as we began to become more sophisticated in how we used the system.

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it_user269979 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user369534 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Regarding the network scanning you might find it will slow down network performance but with correct schedules this was resolved.

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it_user277038 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Analyst at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered. It runs in minimal resources.

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it_user370191 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems and Messaging Administrator at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues yet.

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Buyer's Guide
Spiceworks
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Spiceworks. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,995 professionals have used our research since 2012.