We performed a comparison between Dotcom-Monitor MetricsView Monitoring, DX Spectrum, and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."MetricsView allows us to keep an eye on computer memory, internal network availability, processors, etc. Letting us know where our issues are coming from based on those numbers."
"It shows us not only when utilization is high, but also when it is low."
"It allows us to easily troubleshoot computer issues instead of calling a tech person or do the troubleshooting ourselves and taking the time to do it."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"The interface is user-friendly, making it easy to use."
"Technical support is very helpful with our upgrades."
"Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"The most valuable feature is the way it monitors the environment, and how user-friendly the console is for the end-user. The interface is also very easy and it captures all the information very well."
"All the features are very good. The monitoring of the equipment, the configuration manager, and the IP address monitoring are great."
"There are a lot of options for customization of the dashboard, alerts, and reports."
"An online app or download would be useful for the next release, possibly even a phone app that I could use to view my dashboard when I am stationed remotely."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"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."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"We are looking to change away from this solution because of the documentation and the solution doesn't have enough integration in our country. The documentation is too weak."
"This solution would benefit from expanding on the capabilities within the API."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"The solution does not offer much customization so is somewhat inflexible."
"The improvement would be that SolarWinds NPM thoroughly checks its patches before releasing them to the market. Better testing, alpha testing, and then releasing it to the market."
"Sometimes there are issues when upgrading to a new version of the product."
"Real-time analytics is the major weakness of the SolarWinds NPM platform today. They've done a fantastic job enabling the collection of data. Users are now demanding the ability to generate their own graphs, views, and so on; all of this must be done by an admin today."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
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