DX NetOps vs Plixer Scrutinizer comparison

Broadcom and Plixer are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #36 with an average rating of 8.8, while Plixer is ranked #75. Broadcom holds a 0.7% mindshare in NMS, compared to Plixer’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Plixer users who would recommend it.

DX NetOps

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Plixer Scrutinizer and DX NetOps compete in network activity tracking and performance management. Plixer Scrutinizer dominates in providing fast data analysis and security insights through integration tools, while DX NetOps excels in performance management and infrastructure utilization insights, making it strong for monitoring network performance.

Features: Plixer Scrutinizer provides comprehensive network activity tracking, security insights, and fast data analysis with integration capabilities. It is known for its ease of use and quick reporting. DX NetOps offers superior performance management, infrastructure utilization insights, and detailed performance monitoring, adding value for network performance tracking.

Room for Improvement: Plixer Scrutinizer users suggest enhancements in database management, reporting, and user interface ease of use, alongside improved security algorithms and quicker updates. DX NetOps could improve automation, module integration, tasks, and hardware requirements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Plixer Scrutinizer is mostly deployed on-premises, noted for responsive and knowledgeable tech support resolving issues quickly. DX NetOps offers on-premises and hybrid cloud deployment with excellent support, though it falls short in customer satisfaction compared to Scrutinizer.

Pricing and ROI: Plixer Scrutinizer offers a device-based licensing model seen as affordable with better ROI through reduced incident resolution times. It is functionally valuable as both a network and security tool. DX NetOps, although initially costly, provides discounts and pricing flexibility, appreciated by long-term users, but is generally considered a more expensive investment.

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Categories and Ranking

DX NetOps

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

36th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

AIOps (19th)

Plixer Scrutinizer

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

75th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX NetOps is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plixer Scrutinizer is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
DX NetOps	0.7%
Plixer Scrutinizer	0.5%
Other	98.8%

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Balabrahmam_Chakka

Senior Program Manager at Tata Consultancy Services

Has provided topological insights and dashboard-driven network visibility across complex environments

DX NetOps can be improved by expanding its integrations with different tools, as it can currently integrate with Spectrum and other Broadcom products. It would be beneficial to gain integration capabilities with tools such as New Relic or SolarWinds. Integration with DX NetOps occurs through API, which fetches metrics from those tools, and this is currently happening in our area, with DX NetOps receiving data not only from Spectrum but also from New Relic and SolarWinds. DX NetOps could be improved by providing more communication methods beyond SNMP traps to accommodate different private clouds, especially as customers increasingly adopt vendor-specific clouds. For example, Sainsbury's uses SAP cloud, SAS, and Oracle cloud, where monitoring is not currently possible through DX NetOps and Spectrum, which are limited to certain mechanisms. Within the organization, SNMP is usable, but to display metrics from outside the organization, different communication methods such as agent-based connections, TCP/IP, or secured connections are necessary—features not currently available in DX NetOps and Spectrum.

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Ira Mulyanti

Sales Director at ARGA SOLUSI

An affordable product with great integration capabilities

Plixer Core Platform is a valuable feature and a good software. Plixer Scrutinizer uses NetFlow analysis to monitor whatever is there in a network. Price-wise, Plixer Scrutinizer is not an expensive product. Basically, Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that can integrate with any other brand or product in the market, so it is not an area of concern.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"DX NetOps network monitoring and fault tolerance are the absolute best in the market, especially for the Indian market."

"The AI is the best feature in this solution."

"It's good for root cause analysis for network problems and network link problems."

"It is straightforward to configure, and you can quickly gather data from your infrastructure."

"I like that it provides an overall view of our network. From the topology view to every event, we can view it. We can also see the interface utilization for future capacity planning. It fits our use case and environment."

"I rate the stability of the product as ten on a scale of one to ten, indicating that it is very stable."

"The product features include automation through AI, allowing out-of-the-box analysis of performance data, building baseline trends, and enabling configuration of dynamic thresholds relative to collected data."

"The solution is stable."

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"One feature I found most valuable in Plixer Scrutinizer is the very extensive reporting. Reporting is very flexible, though sometimes you need a little bit of support from Plixer Scrutinizer to create custom-made reporting in a very short time. Reporting is a very strong feature of the product."

"The ability to view the status of the top-10 at a glance is helpful. We immediately know which link is over-utilized or heavily used... and it's all in real-time."

"It shows us the saturation of the network of devices. It gives us a clear view of the flows in the network to understand, for instance, planning upgrades in the network to get an idea of what's going on the network on traffic flows. It gives us insight, for instance, on what's going on on our VPN Client. There are a lot of things where it provides very helpful information. It also gives us our security reports with quite detailed information on what's going on in the network, and whether there are data exfiltrations and so on."

"There are other tools out there that will do what Scrutinizer does. But what I have found with Scrutinizer is that it does it very quickly. I've taken 25 million individual data fragments from the different sensors, and it has graphed that and mapped it and presented a picture within 30 seconds. It has a very efficient database algorithm that I am really impressed with."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the ability to track what a device is doing and to go back historically. It is also able to go down to, and identify, very low levels of traffic."

"Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features."

"Visualization of the network traffic is the most valuable feature. It allows you to drill into information quite quickly."

"We have had many requests to understand in the network which devices are connected to others. Most people don't have this information or are able to establish a map of data flow everywhere around the network. Scrutinizer can really help with this. We are using it to understand who is talking to what, how, and which protocols can help us to improve security and analyze flow."

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Cons

"DX NetOps is somewhat convoluted, and some of the programming constructs can be documented or driven through languages such as Python, Perl, and shell scripting, but they have their proprietary language, which may not be very user-friendly."

"One improvement that could make the product better is to streamline its modules into a more cohesive solution."

"Technical support needs to be better. They need to be more knowledgeable and responsive."

"The licensing cost of DX NetOps is expensive, not very affordable, and on the top of the price range in the market."

"The hardware requirements can be improved."

"Lacks dashboards and better integration with other solutions."

"It would be useful to have more AI features."

"I would like DX NetOps to integrate with all Broadcom products in the future to make it closer to a rating of 10."

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"There was a price lift because previously the product was privately owned, and now there is some external capital in the organization, so pricing could be lower, though, for Plixer Scrutinizer, there is almost no competition at this price point."

"In Plixer Scrutinizer, scalability is an area with minor concerns where improvements are required."

"We couldn't get it set up properly."

"From what I understand it is that the solution is not very scalable in a high volume traffic environment with a large number of flows."

"For updating the Scrutinizer platform, when we have the actual data, it never happens in one day. Every time we have the data, we are obliged to install a new server in order to integrate the old data, and every time it has a problem. Most of the time, we were obliged to scrap all the data because we couldn't transfer it to the new server. So, it would be very good if they could improve this part."

"The visual acuity of how it presents data can sometimes be confusing. It takes a bit for people to spin up how to look at the graphs."

"Data retention needs improvement. Data retention is a thing where we are looking for a better way to collect flow data for a longer time to do forensic research on security incidents. By default, data retention is quite low. We need detailed data in safe storage for a longer time, e.g., for a couple of months. An improvement would be a way to export data into a secure long-term storage."

"Knowing that they're coming out with a new user interface, that is an area where there is room for improvement. There are so many variables. They should limit the variables in the user interface and create some classes, like "simple," "novice," and "expert" to narrow down the variables within it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We just renewed. The pricing is 5,000 euro per year. This is the final price. All tax (20 percent) is included."

"We have increased the license over time. We have added more licenses as the network has grown."

"There are no extra costs. It's about $8,000 a year. The bang for the buck (cost) is definitely a plus."

"There is a recurring maintenance fee after the initial purchase or if we want the license upgrade."

"We recently bought a license upgrade, so we will integrate more exporters. We upgraded from a 25 exporter license to a 50 exporter license. Therefore, there will be more flows, and this will be an extension. I don't know when we will purchase a faster server, because the server that we have is quite new."

"We pay our one-off cost for the licenses, per device, in blocks of 50. And then we pay an annual maintenance fee of about $15,000 Australian, which is, at this point in time, about $9,000 US, for those 250 devices. The upfront costs for the 250-license use, were about $50,000 Australian, which is about $32,000 US."

"Our entire solution, amortized over five years, is in the vicinity of $40,000 to $50,000 a year."

"Currently, the license for Plixer Scrutinizer is subscription-based and at a yearly fee. The price would depend on the amount of traffic you pull in. For example, there are several blocks from a 10K flow, a 40K flow, and a 100K flow, and based on the number of devices that you receive the flows from, that's the license, and it is not a per-interface pricing model, so that is a very strong, very competitive pricing feature of Plixer Scrutinizer. Licensing for the product is also not based on the number of storage, compared to some competing products that are priced based on the amount of storage you need, particularly based on the retention and the amount of data. Plixer Scrutinizer licensing is based on the device, and it's more in the direction of $10,000 because, with just $1,000, you don't have anything."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

12%

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

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Large Enterprise	8

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Overview

DX NetOps by CA Technologies, a Broadcom company, improves your time to value through advanced AI capabilities and unified network visibility that delivers simplified NetOps intelligence into the user experience that traverses modern architectures. DX NetOps accomplishes this through high scale, unified network monitoring that enables full-stack analytics for assuring traditional and modern architectures. DX NetOps converts inventory, topology, device metrics, faults, flow and packet analysis into actionable intelligence for network operations teams. Complimented by our AIOps solution, DX NetOps enables IT teams to establish proactive, autonomous remediation capabilities across the applications, infrastructure, and networks that fuel superior user experiences.

Broadcom

The Scrutinizer incident response system leverages network traffic analytics to provide active monitoring, visualization, and reporting of network and security incidents. The system quickly delivers the rich forensic data needed by IT professionals to support fast and efficient incident response.

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Sample Customers

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Oxford Networks, Squaw Valley Ski Holdings, UltiSat, Wipro, West Aurora School District 129, SUNY Geneseo College, Bloomington Public Schools, First National Bank of Pennsylvania, Kitsap Credit Union, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Houston Texas, Carilion Clinic, Banner Health, IDEXX Laboratories, Phibro Animal Health Corporation, Goodwill Industries, Parmalat, Armstrong Coal Company, Flybe, James Walker

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