DX Performance Management vs Nagios Core comparison

Broadcom and Nagios are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #56 with an average rating of 8.5, while Nagios is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2. Broadcom holds a 0.2% mindshare in NMS, compared to Nagios’s 3.0% 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

56th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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

Nagios Core

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Performance Management is 0.2%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Core is 3.0%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sandip Kheni

Lead Developer at STL - Sterlite Technologies Limited

The vertical database loads faster than any other product available

We experience disconnections between the solutions own components. In the last five years, there have been many intermittent connection issues with the four components and we still don't know the reasons. The solution has issues when loading groups that have been created in the application interfaces. It would be nice to have a mobile application. In the current industry and technical word, the mobile phone is the only thing that is always in your hands. Other Broadcom products have mobile applications but the solution doesn't offer one. It would be great to view device parameters and view or download graphs from a mobile device.

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Nishith-Vyas

Tech Lead at STL Digital Limited

Valuable reporting and alert system with room for PDF export improvements

The NetEase reporting structure needs improvement, especially the availability report, which is weak. It should be generated automatically with minimal human intervention and should be exportable as a PDF. Besides that, an integrated PDF export feature for reports is necessary. Also, the alert mechanism and graphing mechanism need to be integrated properly into Nagios Core. Currently, integrating these requires advanced Linux knowledge. Integration of more visualization tools like Grafana and Prometheus for better graphing and visualization is also recommended.

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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

"The feature that is inherent to its core, of being able to graphically represent a trend and status, is nice."

"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."

"Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on."

"One feature I like about CA Performance Management is the certification of the devices."

"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."

"One of the most valuable features is the ease of use."

"It gave us one location, one place to do all of group administration, and to build dashboards, and device administration, inventory counts... it really reduced our overall administrative overhead."

"The out-of-the-box dashboards are valuable, in terms of being able to visualize performance data in ways that we haven't in the past."

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"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."

"The solution's most valuable feature is that it offers proper alerting capabilities."

"Our customers like that Nagios Core is an open source solution. It can be customized to our customers' specific needs."

"The reporting structure and the feature set are valuable to me."

"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."

"Nagios Core is very configurable. Whatever you want, you can do it."

"We use the product to monitor server applications."

"What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."

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Cons

"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."

"We would like to be capable of reporting network performance with a report strictly focused on the times outside business hours, which CA PM does not currently support. We have discontinued the use of the Business Hours Filtering until CA engineers are able to resolve or offer guidance."

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

"This tool gathers so much data, which makes it hard to convert over. To upgrade it, you really need the solution backed up. That is the issue that we are facing right now."

"Install is done as root, which is a security no-no, and the database IO requirements were not stated correctly, which lead to a year of instability."

"This solution is not very scalable."

"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."

"There are some areas in the technology right now, like with VMs, where we are lacking with our abilities to get inside the VM to monitor traffic within the machine."

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"Bandwidth monitoring is the pain point for me because Nagios Core does not monitor bandwidth effectively like Cacti does."

"The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved."

"The initial setup process could be easier."

"Making it a little easier to configure and set up from the start would help. There are multiple layers that you have to wade through to be able to set it up, to do it the right way, and to get it to do what you want it to do."

"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."

"We're using the free version, which limits us in terms of the things that we can do. If we had the paid version, a lot of our issues would probably go away. For example, we can't isolate instances that are being built or updated with the production ones. When they're being built, on Nagios, they're showing in red. It'd be nice to be able to partition those off until they're all green, and then we can bring them into the environment. This is probably because we've got the free version and not the paid version. If we went for the paid version, it would probably allow us to do exactly what we want to or remove the restrictions that we have, but if we are able to isolate instances in the free version, it would make life much easier."

"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."

"Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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 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."

"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. "

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

"We are using the free version."

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

"It's free."

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

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

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

"Nagios Core is free to use."

"We are using the open-source, unpaid version."

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Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

12%

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Computer Software Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DX Performance Management?

The tool helps us understand network performance.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Performance Management?

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

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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 do you like most about Nagios Core?

What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services.

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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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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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