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DX Performance Management vs SolarWinds Network Device Monitor comparison

Broadcom and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #55 with an average rating of 8.5, while SolarWinds is ranked #30 with an average rating of 7.8. Broadcom holds a 0.3% mindshare in NMS, compared to SolarWinds’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.
DX Performance Management
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95% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

SolarWinds Network Device Monitor and DX Performance Management are competing products in network monitoring. While SolarWinds is favored for its pricing and support, DX Performance stands out with its robust feature set, appealing to those seeking advanced functionalities.

Features: SolarWinds Network Device Monitor offers real-time monitoring, seamless integration with existing systems, and user-friendly interfaces. DX Performance Management is known for its advanced analytics, scalable architecture, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities.

Room for Improvement: SolarWinds Network Device Monitor may improve by offering more advanced analytics, enhancing scalability for larger networks, and expanding on data visualization tools. DX Performance Management could benefit from simplifying its setup process, offering more competitive pricing points, and refining user interfaces for easier navigation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is recognized for easy deployment and efficient operation with responsive customer support. DX Performance Management requires a more complex setup but provides extensive guidance and support, favoring large enterprises.

Pricing and ROI: SolarWinds Network Device Monitor offers competitive pricing and efficient ROI, appealing to smaller businesses. DX Performance Management is positioned higher in price but offers significant long-term ROI due to its extensive features and scalability, suitable for larger organizations.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

DX Performance Management
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
55th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure Capacity Planning (2nd), DX NetOps (2nd)
SolarWinds Network Device M...
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
30th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Performance Management is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor0.6%
DX Performance Management0.3%
Other99.1%
Network Monitoring Software
 

Featured Reviews

Sandip Kheni - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Vijay Samant - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitor network utilization and manage bandwidth efficiently with live monitoring and reliable fault management capabilities
I use SolarWinds Network Device Monitor for monitoring network utilization, bandwidth utilization, uptime, and downtime. It also assists in incident management SolarWinds Network Device Monitor provides live monitoring capabilities, which are very useful. Its fault management capabilities are…
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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 integration to the other products that we use: NFA, we use ADA, we use Spectrum; and CAPM integrates all those into a single pane of glass."
"We're able to present data from multiple back-end collection sources into a single dashboard for the users. So they don't have to go to multiple locations to get data about a particular item, or device."
"One feature I like about CA Performance Management is the certification of the devices."
"​When devices are having performance issues, it proactively build dashboards which allow us to go and do health checks, and resolve problems before they become an issue.​"
"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."
"Downloads and records are the most valuable features."
"​The ability to quickly do drag and drop customized reports for dashboards.​"
"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."
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"You can create an attractive dashboard and create a hierarchy."
"Overall, I rate SolarWinds Network Device Monitor ten out of ten."
"The product is useful for switches and IP phones."
"The alerts we are getting when we start losing connection access have been helpful."
"In terms of general network monitoring features, I find SolarWinds Network Device Monitor very flexible and comfortable to use. The software itself is extremely useful when it comes to monitoring how our data moves between different networks and environments."
"Since our devices are spread out across the world, we can see the status of these devices without having to send someone physically to a remote location, which saves money."
"The solution and its interface are elaborate and fully integrate all monitored items for easy analysis and troubleshooting."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor are the reports. We are configuring the reports, and the first reports are only about the devices. We are configuring the thresholds in order to monitor all the devices."
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Cons

"We experience disconnections between the solutions own components."
"It seems like we escalate more than I would like to. If anything, they should look at how the tier support goes in place."
"I'm not a fan of many extra features since they usually burden the software and reduce its reliability."
"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."
"Some of the individual report views, the way some of the columns sort, there's room for improvement in giving us more flexibility in being able to sort reports based, for example, on what columns the metrics fall under."
"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."
"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."
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"Although I haven't explored all of the features available, I wouldn't mind if the software were made to be a bit more customizable."
"SolarWinds Network Device Monitor could improve the features. We don't have the complete model for the database, and the monitoring for the database is up and down. We expect that we could monitor the blocking items on the database but we don't have that feature."
"There is no mobile version of this product, and our team should be able to access it using a mobile device."
"The solution should have AI-powered issue-resolving capabilities"
"The reporting feature needs improvement because we are unable to configure reports that were included during initial implementation."
"If everything were in the package so that everything was ready to go out of the box, that would be ideal."
"In terms of price, it could be less expensive."
"The way they are presenting the map of our devices needs to be improved."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."
"The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices."
"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. ​"
"The enterprise license is good for the SolarWinds Network Device Monitor. However, it is expensive, they should reduce their price."
"When compared with other solutions SolarWinds is more expensive."
"Thankfully, it doesn't take a lot of manpower to install and deploy."
"I find the cost of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor reasonable for our company. Though, I'm not aware of the exact licensing cost."
"Well, we had a perpetual license and the renewal was $20 to $25,000."
"The price of the SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is good."
"The product is expensive."
"I rate the product's price as three to three and a half or on a scale of one to ten, where one means low price, and ten means high price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Educational Organization
11%
University
9%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise25
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
 

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 SolarWinds Network Device Monitor?
I rate the product's initial setup process a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is a difficult phase and ten is an easy process.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Network Device Monitor?
I am not a positive person regarding SolarWinds Network Device Monitor.
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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Network Device Monitor?
There are solutions that can perform better, but due to pricing for our corporate implementation, we had to stay with this solution. It accomplishes the necessary tasks, but there is room for impro...
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Also Known As

CA Performance Management
Network Device Monitor
 

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
Network Device Monitor is a free tool that makes it easy to monitor the real-time performance and health of a single device on your network with a desktop dashboard that alerts you when your device is in trouble.
SolarWinds
 

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 
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