DX Performance Management vs Nagios Core comparison

Broadcom and Nagios are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #43 with an average rating of 9.0, while Nagios is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.7. Broadcom holds a 0.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to Nagios’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Nagios users who would recommend it.

DX Performance Management

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

DX Performance Management and Nagios Core compete in IT infrastructure management. DX Performance Management has the upper hand in support services, while Nagios Core stands out with its comprehensive feature set despite higher costs.

Features: DX Performance Management offers real-time analytics, automated alerting, and proactive monitoring, appealing to users seeking efficiency. Nagios Core provides an extensive plugin system, flexibility in diverse environments, and customization options attractive to developers and IT professionals.

Room for Improvement: DX Performance Management could improve its cost-effectiveness, simplify some advanced features, and enhance integration capabilities. Nagios Core may benefit from easier deployment processes, a more intuitive user interface, and comprehensive documentation to aid less experienced users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Performance Management offers streamlined deployment and strong customer support, making transitions smoother. In contrast, Nagios Core requires more technical expertise for deployment and configuration. However, its large community provides valuable support and troubleshooting resources.

Pricing and ROI: DX Performance Management has higher initial setup costs but offers a significant ROI through streamlined operations and reduced downtime. Nagios Core’s open-source nature means a minimal entry cost, with its ROI potential linked to skilled personnel for optimizing its capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Performance Management

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

43rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure Capacity Planning (1st), DX NetOps (2nd)

Nagios Core

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Performance Management is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Core is 1.9%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nagios Core	1.9%
DX Performance Management	0.5%
Other	97.6%

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reviewer1810893

Senior IT Operations Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Flexibility and detailed performance stats enable effective network monitoring

Spectrum is very good at monitoring all network faults and configurations. It enables me to take action based on network issues. The Performance Management provides detailed network performance stats, including CPU, memory, and interface bandwidth. Additionally, Spectrum is flexible and allows me to organize and treat devices uniquely without impacting other devices.

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Husham Yaqoob

Senior System Administrator at Interactive Group

Monitoring solution provides comprehensive visibility across IT infrastructure

The good thing about Nagios Core is it covers everything. Everything in the IT domain, you can monitor anything. You can even monitor printers, the ports of printers, Core workstations, and storage. You can monitor the workflow Core and the utilization of computes. If you want to grasp everything of your IT equipment on a single interface, you can use Nagios. It's the best one. It provides dashboards, and you can also configure your emails and alerts with it. If something is critical, you can configure it to notify via emails. It has a very handy dashboard, providing live alerts and visibility for everything.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"When we deployed it, right out of the box we were able to stand up Performance Management within two weeks, in our production environment, with full discovery and relevant information, actual information, that we could use in our command center, our 24/7 operations center."

"We have been able to get a little bit better at seeing more things in real time and more just in time, so we're less reactionary."

"My advice would be start today. The tool is great and is pretty flexible, also for integration in other tools using OpenAPI."

"The licensing is very straightforward; it doesn't matter how many devices you have and would like to monitor, it's very straightforward."

"There is a good amount of vendor certification which comes with the product. That's all factory-loaded, no need to load any custom-made files. Most of the metrics are calibrated and captured from the devices based on the defaults available from vendor certification."

"You can create intelligent alerts so you have enough time to replace the router or interface before it's full. The same is applicable for CBQoS channels."

"Great dashboards and good integration with other solutions."

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"You should really try Nagios; it will help a lot and I have found that it is the best buddy for system admins."

"The notifications are definitely one of the most valuable features of Nagios Core. We know what to look for and what to expect when things are down."

"This product covers all of our infrastructure health checks, and has triggers for us to alert us to any unusual behaviour of the monitored systems."

"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable, and we primarily use it for user experience monitoring and determining which layer the problem happened to resolve it."

"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."

"This is probably the greatest advantage of Nagios - it can be customized to a degree to suit your monitoring needs."

"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."

"We are using Nagios Core on a VM and it's working very well, even though the specs of the VM are very low because it doesn't require much storage."

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Cons

"Product has issue collecting IP SLA data."

"CA PM Business Hours Filtering: I understand that all monitoring systems have defects. The Business Hours Filtering does not always function properly. Sometimes, when applying business hours to CA PM reports that are 30 or more days in duration, the report generation times out and does not display results. We have other CA PM reports that, when we apply Business Hours Filtering, the report results displayed are the same as without the filter. We are not sure if this is a defect in CA PM or if it is a result of our complex configuration (folder structure) and application of business hours."

"I would like to have more tasks, graphs, and possibilities for linking to the graphs and reports added to the solution."

"Spectrum's topology view sometimes does not rebuild automatically when a device is shut down and reconnected."

"The solution could improve the database model. It is also not very good because they have a lot of interconnections with other data sources, such as NFA and VNA."

"It would be helpful if CA provided online training for its customers."

"When it goes through discovery, or whatever it is doing in the back-end that slows it down, sometimes we get some failures with it. "

"Since we are out of registered IP space, we are moving to ipv6 and we expect our vendors to move with us, and they have not delivered yet."

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"A better UI for graphing would make it better. The present graphs are not very friendly and good to see."

"Application level monitoring is limited."

"The core version is no match for the XI version."

"Nagios SLA. I'm currently working on Nagios Digger, which has many code-level problems."

"Lessening the price point would be an improvement."

"Nagios Core would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."

"t was a little hard to get our setup represented in the configuration."

"Nagios Core could improve by adding a user interface. If you want the user interface you have to use Nagios XI."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."

"Do your homework and know how many devices you will be managing out of the gate. Be sure to project what your growth will be each year."

"We were looking at other vendors in the marketplace for NetFlow, and CA just beat everybody else in price, cost, and the size to implement. "

"We purchase a license to use the solution every three years and we have multiple contracts. They have been increasing the price annually. We have a baseline for three years and then we need to pay the difference from the baseline, and we are in the process of negotiating a new price for all the licenses we need. The price overall is affordable."

"They should provide more scalable licensing for the product."

"The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices."

"It's free."

"The solution is expensive."

"We have saved a lot of time, money, and effort in reducing disaster times, which is owed to Nagios quick alerting."

"Lessening the price point would be an improvement."

"The enterprise version has technical support. The version we are using is free."

"The product is cheaply priced."

"We are using the free version of Nagios Core."

"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

11%

Construction Company

11%

Healthcare Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	25

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	23

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with DX Performance Management?

Spectrum's topology view sometimes does not rebuild automatically when a device is shut down and reconnected. It requires manual discovery and rebuilding of the topology, which I hope can be improved.

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What is your primary use case for DX Performance Management?

I have used Spectrum for monitoring all network faults, configurations, and troubleshooting network issues. It provides network performance stats, such as CPU, memory, and interface bandwidth detai...

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What advice do you have for others considering DX Performance Management?

I would recommend this solution based on its functionality, flexibility, customizability, and ease of use. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. I am just a customer and not a par...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios Core?

Nagios Core is a free and open-source product. We don't charge for the product itself, but we charge for the man-hour costs related to installation, configuration, ongoing operation, and maintenance.

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What needs improvement with Nagios Core?

The dashboard should be improved. It's very simple. I don't have a very clear or specific suggestion. You can change the skin of the dashboard, however, it's good for me.

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What is your primary use case for Nagios Core?

I was a senior system administrator. I've been using Nagios Core for more than ten years now. It can be used to monitor hosts, such as machines, and monitor services of any kind. I'm using it to mo...

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Also Known As

CA Performance Management

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Overview

CA Performance Management is a comprehensive and highly scalable network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It was built to meet the unique demands of big data and modern networks architectures, including highly dynamic and complex hybrid cloud and software-defined networks (SDN).

The platform is design to reduce complexity inherent in modern networks built across numerous technology stacks through advanced network performance monitoring and relationship mapping for improved operational assurance.

Combined with CA Virtual Network Assurance, the platform extends operator visibility through advanced discovery and network performance monitoring of highly sensitive cloud and multi-layered SDN networks and service chains.

Broadcom

This is IT infrastructure monitoring's industry-standard, open-source core. Free without professional support services.

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Sample Customers

Jack Henry & Assoc, Target, CenturyLink, Bell Canada, BrightHouse Networks, Telus, Unisys, Verizon, Southern California Edison, GEICO, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo, American Family Insurance Group, Deutsche Telekom AG

Airbnb, Cisco, PayPal, FanDuel

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