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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

June 2025

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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)

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 (9th), Server Monitoring (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (1st)

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 Zabbix is 12.7%, up from 11.2% 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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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

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

"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."

"Downloads and records are the most valuable features."

"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 is the gathering of the whole performance data in our environment and our network environment, for us and our customers."

"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."

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

"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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"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."

"The initial setup was not complex."

"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."

"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."

"The most valuable feature is service assurance."

"It can send messages to our ticketing system."

"It's one of the best products available."

"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."

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Cons

"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."

"It needs role-based administration."

"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. "

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

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

"Product has issue collecting IP SLA data."

"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."

"Policies could be improved."

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"The product could be more secure and more stable."

"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."

"I have experienced stability issues approximately five or ten times."

"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."

"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."

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

"One of the things we don't like is that Zabbix has a license structure with a price that is high compared to the competition. It's very high, for example, compared to something like Microsoft Teams."

"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. "

"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."

"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."

"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."

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

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

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

"I was using the free, Community Edition."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

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

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

"Zabbix is open-source so if one wishes to implement it in-house, they must have qualified professionals to set up and optimize databases, Linux/Unix OS, PHP, Apache, and depending on what is monitored, a full-stack network and systems administrator may be needed."

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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

19%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

15%

Educational Organization

14%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

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.

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?

We didn't use the commercial version. We used the free version.

What needs improvement with Zabbix?

I think it's the best solution for monitoring. I don't know any better.

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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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