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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

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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

106

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (8th), Server Monitoring (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd)

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 Zabbix is 13.0%, up from 11.2% 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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ASM Naushad Alam

Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes

We have not yet purchased the commercial version so have a lack of technical ability. We do not yet fully know the key points or key features of the solution. We just use what we use along with WhatsUp Gold. Based on our use only, stability is rated a seven out of ten.

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

"The ability to quickly do drag and drop customized reports for dashboards."

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

"The ability to very quickly and graphically navigate around, being able to zoom in to a timeframe, apply it to all the other panels... are all very intuitive."

"There is another component of the tool called Network Flow Analysis. It gives us the ability to troubleshoot issues which do not appear right away."

"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."

"Customer service is top-notch."

"The tool helps us understand network performance."

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"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."

"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."

"Zabbix is very easy to implement."

"It's a flexible solution."

"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."

"It can send messages to our ticketing system."

"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."

"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."

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Cons

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

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

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

"For CA PM, there should be a way of easily migrating the reports coming from eHealth going to CA Performance Center, since CA PC is replacing eHealth."

"This solution is not very scalable."

"I think it would be helpful having a more comprehensive set of certifications so that I could natively deploy devices to my environment and the tool would immediately recognize and immediately be able to provide relevant performance information without a lot of tuning on my part."

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

"CA PM can be complex to build and configure. Creating the folders / groups / sites required establishing many rule sets."

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"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."

"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."

"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."

"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."

"It could be more stable."

"There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc."

"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."

"The solution needs to add remote features."

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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"It is reasonable."

"We pay the subscription for support by year."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"My manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything."

"For pricing, it's free. We don't pay anything for it. They open-source the code, and people pay for support."

"Zabbix is a free solution but the support contact costs money."

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"There is a license required for this solution and we pay annually for our license."

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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

28%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

32%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Small Business

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?

The cost is minimal. It is literally free.

What needs improvement with Zabbix?

For me, Zabbix is very straightforward. I cannot think of any improvements needed. It's a very mature product. The only issue I can note is that it's Linux-based, and Linux documentation is not the...

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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

1. IBM 2. Dell 3. Cisco 4. HP 5. Oracle 6. Microsoft 7. Amazon 8. Google 9. Facebook 10. Twitter 11. LinkedIn 12. Netflix 13. Adobe 14. VMware 15. Salesforce 16. SAP 17. Intel 18. AT&T 19. Verizon 20. T-Mobile 21. Vodafone 22. Ericsson 23. Nokia 24. Siemens 25. General Electric 26. Honeywell 27. Philips 28. Sony 29. Samsung 30. LG 31. Panasonic 32. Toshiba