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BigPanda vs DX Spectrum comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.5
BigPanda enhances efficiency by centralizing operations, saving time and resources, especially when managing over 10,000 events weekly.
Sentiment score
7.1
Organizations experienced significant ROI with DX Spectrum, noting enhanced automation, cost savings, efficiency, and effective integration despite high costs.
BigPanda offers significant time-saving, cost-saving, and resource-saving benefits.
BigPanda saves time with its advanced features and manages large environments while requiring fewer resources compared to our previous tool, Netcool.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.0
BigPanda customer service is generally helpful but experiences vary, showing occasional delays with ratings from six to ten.
Sentiment score
7.1
Customer service excels with high ratings, but technical support varies; Broadcom acquisition raised concerns over response times.
If BigPanda can consistently provide such competent contacts, I would rate the support ten out of ten, otherwise, it is an eight out of ten.
For technical support, we have only had to address password resets and alert mismatching.
Their collaboration was good, and I would rate them nine out of ten.
Broadcom technical support is very good.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
BigPanda efficiently manages large alerts and users, integrates well, and is favored for scalability in complex infrastructures.
Sentiment score
8.1
DX Spectrum is highly adaptable and scalable, effectively supporting growth in diverse environments from small businesses to large corporations.
It handles large volumes of alerts without limitations.
We manage a large environment with over 50,000 servers and various monitoring tools like Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Nagios, and Datadog.
I rate the scalability of BigPanda at eight.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
BigPanda is stable with efficient issue resolution, improved reliability, and high ratings, though critical traffic may slow it down.
Sentiment score
7.3
DX Spectrum is praised for its stability and reliability, with minor issues usually due to incorrect configurations or updates.
BigPanda is now stable.
I would rate the availability of BigPanda at nine because it's almost 99.99% available.
However, when handling critical traffic, the BigPanda site can slow down, which we manage with a load balancer.
 

Room For Improvement

BigPanda needs better analytics, UI, cost-effectiveness, and AI, with improved observability, integration, and reduced incident costs.
DX Spectrum users seek a modern interface, enhanced integration, simplified processes, better analytics, and improved support for device certification.
A 'deep dive' analysis feature would be appreciated to give detailed insights such as CPU usage and disk space analysis.
It would be beneficial if BigPanda leveraged AI to solve critical issues related to editing and sending alerts based on enrichment mapping files.
If BigPanda could integrate AI, it would enhance the platform significantly by offering chatbot functionality within the BigPanda UI.
Currently, they appear as pop-up messages, but I would prefer having alarm messages shown as a scrolling bar at the taskbar for easier visibility.
The event management should have more deduplication and alert correlation and check the bidirectional communication with ServiceNow.
 

Setup Cost

BigPanda offers flexible, affordable pricing at $200,000/year with discounts, perceived as reasonable compared to competitors in event management.
DX Spectrum's pricing favors large enterprises, offering flexible but complex licensing, with high costs impacting smaller businesses.
The pricing for BigPanda is reasonable compared to other event management tools, given its advantages.
The price of DX Spectrum is not competitive when compared to other solutions, such as SolarWinds.
 

Valuable Features

BigPanda enhances incident management with AI-driven alert deduplication, integration, automation, and user-friendly dashboards, improving workflow efficiency.
DX Spectrum offers comprehensive network monitoring, fault management, scalability, and seamless integration, ideal for managing extensive IT infrastructures.
Its automation has significantly improved incident response times, reducing the process to within one minute.
It can correlate multiple issues within a single device, create a single incident, and thus reduce noise and provide faster resolution.
BigPanda improves service reliability with instant resolution, increased uptime, and reduced mean time to resolution, thus enhancing service quality.
The interface has the needed configuration for visualization, and it's effective in providing a complete diagram of network links and connections across various stations globally.
DX Spectrum uses an SNMP Trap to accept all the details, especially for device monitoring of faulty devices, allowing me to use Spectrum effectively.
 

Categories and Ranking

BigPanda
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
25th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (8th), AIOps (8th)
DX Spectrum
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
19th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
117
Ranking in other categories
Network Management Applications (7th), Network Monitoring Software (20th), Network Troubleshooting (6th), DX NetOps (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of BigPanda is 0.9%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of DX Spectrum is 0.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
DX Spectrum0.9%
BigPanda0.9%
Other98.2%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Michael Wenn - PeerSpot reviewer
Experience boosts operational efficiency while requiring smoother setup and cost adjustments
I am a customer and end user of the BigPanda solution. My role is CEO/co-founder at AI Ops Limited, and I can be reached at mike.van@aiops.co.uk. I have opted to receive email notifications relevant to my review, which I can opt out of at any time. If I don't already have an account on peerspot.com, PeerSpot will create an account and email me login credentials.
DickBaker - PeerSpot reviewer
An all-inclusive monitoring solution that adapts to emerging technologies
The product helps to correlate events.  The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability. DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features.  I have been using the product since 2005.  I rate DX Spectrum's stability an eight point five…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise88
 

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
What do you like most about BigPanda?
One of the most valuable features of BigPanda is its user-friendly interface.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BigPanda?
The pricing of BigPanda includes considerations for pricing, licensing, and setup costs of the solution.
What do you like most about DX Spectrum?
The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Spectrum?
The price of DX Spectrum is not competitive when compared to other solutions, such as SolarWinds. The high price has caused us to lose many deals.
What needs improvement with DX Spectrum?
I would like to see improvements in making the interface more user-friendly. Many people find it not simple to use. One of the common customer complaints is about the alarm notifications. Currently...
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

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