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DX Performance Management

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Zabbix and DX Performance Management are competitors in network monitoring solutions. Zabbix seems to have the upper hand due to its flexibility and cost-effectiveness, providing a wider range of monitoring without licensing fees.

Features: Zabbix offers open-source solutions with no paid features or licensing costs, automated discovery, and strong community support for scalability and flexibility. It provides versatile monitoring across systems including network interfaces and virtual machines. DX Performance Management is known for integration capabilities, comprehensive network data handling, and robust dashboards, with extensive device support and synergy with CA products.

Room for Improvement: Zabbix needs better reporting features, a more user-friendly interface, and enhanced templates. Its documentation is often seen as lacking, and technology integration can be inadequate. DX Performance faces challenges with complex deployment, high initial configuration, and limited customization options. It could improve alerting features and high-availability capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zabbix offers flexible deployment on-premises, hybrid, and private cloud environments, yet users often find setup challenging. While community support is extensive, technical support can be costly. DX Performance provides relatively easy on-premises deployment with strong official support, though sometimes not flexible enough or immediately responsive. Customers value its integration within the CA ecosystem but point out significant initial configuration requirements.

Pricing and ROI: Zabbix is an attractive option as a free open-source platform, eliminating licensing fees and offering quick ROI by reducing operational costs. The main investment is in time and skill for setup and maintenance, favoring organizations with technical expertise. DX Performance requires higher upfront costs due to licensing and support but delivers comprehensive features. Its pricing is deemed reasonable, particularly when bundled with other CA products, offering value for extensive monitoring needs.

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DX Performance Management vs. Zabbix

September 2025

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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)

Zabbix

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

107

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (9th), Server Monitoring (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Performance Management is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zabbix is 11.7%, up from 11.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Zabbix	11.7%
DX Performance Management	0.3%
Other	88.0%

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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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B Ahmed

Manager, Information Technology Zara & Inditex at Cenomi

Enables seamless global client monitoring with reliable remote connectivity

I use the solution to provide a perfect environment for remote connectivity with my clients. Many tools that I require for system maintenance are included. I can easily monitor all of my clients throughout the world I did not give much thought to it, however, improvements could be made to Zabbix.…

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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

"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."

"It is very easy to add devices; just be aware that it requires SNMP to be enabled."

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

"Downloads and records are the most valuable features."

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

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

"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."

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"It can send messages to our ticketing system."

"The most valuable function for me is the auto-discovery of interfaces in devices. When you integrate devices into the tool, it automatically finds the interfaces, which is very helpful for my job. Integration and configuration run smoothly in my experience with Juniper and Aruba devices."

"Our customers also like that they don't have to use multiple modules. Micro Focus and major vendors typically require you to buy several modules and plugins. Our customers do not like that. We offer them a single product for all their monitoring needs."

"The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."

"The best feature is that Zabbix can report everything, and everything in Zabbix is free."

"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."

"The flexibility of this solution is amazing."

"Zabbix is scalable."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"This solution's implementation process could be quicker. They could also optimize the hardware requirements."

"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. "

"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."

"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."

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

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"The solution needs to add remote features."

"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."

"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."

"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."

"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."

"For us, the initial setup was complex"

"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."

"The event correlation could be better."

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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. "

"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."

"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’re using the free version, which covers all our current needs."

"Its licensing is fair. It seems to be much cheaper than others."

"It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation."

"We use the open-source version of Zabbix."

"The solution is free to use but they offer support as a paid service. If you can go read the manuals and do the fine-tuning based on your needs, you do not need to pay anything and you will have a full solution."

"It is open source. If you want to have a subscription or official support, you can pay for it. They have different plans, which are not that expensive. The plans are based on per monitoring server, not per monitored equipment. So, it is not at all expensive, and you can also live without the support if you want a cheaper option."

"We were searching for an open source solution and Zabbix fit the bill because it is free and open source under the GPL license."

"I was using the free, Community Edition."

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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%

Educational Organization

10%

University

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

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	53
Midsize Enterprise	23
Large Enterprise	34

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DX Performance Management?

The tool helps us understand network performance.

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

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

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.

What do you like most about Zabbix?

The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?

If you want to save costs, you can use Zabbix.

What needs improvement with Zabbix?

The reporting is lacking because this is an open-source tool, and nowadays, management's expectation is that the reports should be of high quality and every information should be presented in a con...

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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

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software that provides real-time monitoring and alerting for servers, networks, applications, and services.

It offers a wide range of features including data collection, visualization, and reporting.

With its user-friendly interface and customizable dashboards, Zabbix helps organizations ensure the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure.

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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