DX Performance Management vs PRTG Network Monitor comparison

Broadcom and Paessler GmbH are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #57 with an average rating of 8.5, while Paessler GmbH is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.7. Broadcom holds a 0.2% mindshare in NMS, compared to Paessler GmbH’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Paessler GmbH users who would recommend it.

DX Performance Management

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

PRTG Network Monitor and DX Performance Management both compete in the network monitoring category. PRTG Network Monitor seems to have the upper hand with its rapid deployment and user-friendly interfaces, making it suitable for businesses of various sizes looking for straightforward solutions without extensive customization.

Features: PRTG Network Monitor offers rapid deployment, a robust set of sensors, and a cost-effective pricing strategy. Its intuitive setup makes it easy for users to implement without needing extensive customization. Real-time alerting and frequent updates ensure improved IT infrastructure awareness. DX Performance Management provides integration with other solutions, comprehensive network performance insights, and robust dashboards ideal for larger environments.

Room for Improvement: PRTG Network Monitor could improve map design flexibility, enhance application monitoring, and better its distributed monitoring capabilities. Users also find the setup of detailed sensors complex and desire more intuitive handling of distributed file systems. DX Performance Management requires better certificate support, finer-grained reporting capabilities, and enhanced integration options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PRTG Network Monitor is praised for its versatile and straightforward deployment, adaptable from on-premises to hybrid environments. Its effective knowledge base support is valued, though the lack of direct remote support can be a challenge. DX Performance Management is primarily on-premises and is appreciated for its responsive technical support and ease of integration.

Pricing and ROI: PRTG Network Monitor's cost-effective pricing provides substantial value by bundling features without needing additional licenses. It delivers notable ROI through immediate efficiency improvements and optimized IT operations. While DX Performance Management offers competitive pricing for complex environments, PRTG's pricing might be restrictive for smaller businesses, although its overall value proposition remains compelling for maximizing operational efficiency.

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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)

PRTG Network Monitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (6th), Cloud Monitoring Software (11th)

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 PRTG Network Monitor is 4.2%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

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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Noman-Saleem

Network Support Officer at Habib Metropolitan Bank Ltd

Detects suden changes but significant pricing concerns affect the effectiveness of network traffic troubleshooting

We use PRTG Network Monitor for monitoring traffic on interfaces and the behavior of network traffic. If there are sudden changes in traffic or any configuration issues, we can sort them out using PRTG. It's very helpful for troubleshooting and monitoring traffic utilization on our interfaces…

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

"Scalability is the reason we bought the product to begin with. It was designed from the ground up for carrier-grade services, and we are in effect a MSP ourselves. So we were really interested in looking at something to be able to handle the multi-tenancy and scale as large as possible. This was the only solution that we really considered at that level."

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

"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."

"The most valuable feature of DX Performance Management is the quick way we can collect data without putting much effort. They have a lot of customization and features with the solution internally and out of the box. We can discover the device, and start collecting information. For example, if the device is available, we can receive the CPU and memory utilization, and the interface optimization is simple and very fast to implement."

"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."

"You can have thousands of devices inside and hundreds of thousands of interphases without a problem."

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

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"The product is simple and easy to implement."

"Stable solution for monitoring networks and bandwidth, with multiple functions and features such as NetFlow Collector, graphical monitoring, etc."

"The most valuable feature is the notifications. As long as you spend time and think about what and when you want to be notified, it's always accurate. It is always there. I find things out before my Internet provider."

"Nice product with an easy interface to use and a large variety of sensors."

"It is easy to use and intuitive, which is really important. It does what it says on the box by giving you a visual of the state of what is going on at any one time."

"PRTG Network Monitor is easy to set up. Within a few minutes, it is operational."

"One of its valuable features is the fact that it handles multiple operating systems... And I like the fact that it tells me when things are about to fall over, which means I can preempt it and not have to wake up at three in the morning to fix it."

"We can see which fiber links have been used heavily and, if they are used heavily, we can introduce more links to particular buildings or particular areas."

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Cons

"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."

"Policies could be improved."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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. "

"Global synchronization errors. Sometimes it just doesn't finish in time due to the load."

"It could be a little easier to integrate new metrics."

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"The inventory of the device should be improved."

"Having a Unix implementation or Unix installation could be an improvement. Right now, it's based just on Windows, and that's a problem for some customers."

"I wouldn't mind better categories for the sensors. When I go to add a new sensor for a new device, there are some categories in there already, and they can be filtered out, but there's quite a large pool of sensors... When I want to go in and find something quite specific, I have got to scroll down and scroll down to find what I'm actually looking for,"

"When you email the support team, they take three to seven days to respond and resolve simple issues."

"The solution could be better and faster when it comes to performance."

"Improvements in data storage flexibility, such as allowing customers to specify data retention periods, would enhance PRTG."

"With custom sensors, there is a lot of work which needs to be done in the background, just for it to be tailor-made for the specific thing that we are actually monitoring. We take a lot of time with the custom sensors. I would like to see the customer sensor be more robust and a bit more varied."

"PRTG Network Monitor could improve by having a feature to allow uploading of preset standard network switch configurations and the ability to monitor the SLA configuration, such as uptime for the switches or internet connectivity. This would be very useful."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"We are using the premium version of PRTG Network Monitor. The price of the solution is a bit higher than competitors but it is worth the extra money. However, it would be helpful if the price was lower."

"It's an annual license that is based on the number of endpoints that we're tracking and using."

"We've got 1,000 nodes and I believe it's a few hundred quid a month."

"Because we are only on the free version, we have a limited number of sensors. Therefore, we are not monitoring as much as we want to be to obtain historical information."

"Sensors on free version can run out quick."

"We have an unlimited license for this solution."

"If you are not too sure about it, try the free version. Then, if you like it, you can go to the paid version and roll it out."

"I rate the price of PRTG Network Monitor an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price."

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it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Educational Organization

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

PRTG network monitor is one of the best tool i have ever used for the monitoring. It have auto discovery option. it avoid the configuring the device in PRTG. It automatically discover the device an...

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What do you like most about PRTG Network Monitor?

The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PRTG Network Monitor?

The pricing is in the middle. It's not too high, nor too low, but it's reasonable.

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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

PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.

To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.

Paessler GmbH

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

Jameson Bank, Sidnix, RungeICT, MedicalAnimal, Truck-lite, GamingGrids, The Covell Group, Forsythn County Schools, NetMass, Musgrove Park Hospital, Lanes Health, Columbia Southern University, Vodafone, Intrust Bank

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