DX Performance Management vs Nagios Core comparison

Broadcom and Nagios are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #57 with an average rating of 8.5, while Nagios is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.5. Broadcom holds a 0.2% mindshare in NMS, compared to Nagios’s 2.8% 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

57th

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

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Performance Management is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Core is 2.8%, down from 3.2% 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

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

"The solution's performance itself is very good because it is a vertical database that loads very fast in comparison to other products."

"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."

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

"It can be easily integrated with other systems and is powerful enough to collect data from a large number of devices."

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

"The integration with NetFlow, the NFA solution, so that we can have our flow forensics paired with the SNMP polling performance metrics on the same page."

"It saves time having it all on one place, so you do not have to jump around from different tools and try to merge the data. It is already done for you."

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"Provides timely notifications."

"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."

"Key features include the GUI interface, its notification capabilities, and the real-time reporting."

"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."

"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."

"Nagios Core is stable."

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

"The good thing about Nagios Core is it covers everything."

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Cons

"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."

"The quantity of views which are tied to specific metric families is too high. Also, the problem is the view doesn't tell you which metric family it uses, so you don't know why you don't see data."

"I have mixed feeling about the scalability. I feel like there are things which are being put into UIM right now that are not being included in Performance Center that we need to see in Performance Center. We are kind of being driven to buy UIM, and I can't justify it."

"Even though we can see when something is not available, it would also be it would be nice if some sort of alerting took place to that you could know immediately if something went down."

"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."

"This solution is not very scalable."

"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."

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

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

"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 scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."

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

"The NetEase reporting structure needs improvement, especially the availability report, which is weak."

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

"Nagios Core is limited in terms of distributed setups, and there is no central view for remote data centers."

"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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Most the plugin features are free."

"The product is cheaply priced."

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

"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."

"The Nagios Core (PNP4Nagios + Core) is free and can be setup by Netadmin within a few hours. The only additional cost is the cloud server."

"Nagios Core is a cheap solution."

"Lessening the price point would be an improvement."

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

15%

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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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