We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Goliath Performance Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"Offers a diversity of features."
"I like that it not only has the ability to monitor but that it can do a lot of specific Citrix monitoring."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"I would like to see CA move Spectrum, Performance Manager, and some of their other tools moved to a SaaS based model. You see a lot of other manufacturers which are moving toward SaaS based models."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"Issues with generating reports; consistency is not there."
"I would love to be able to tell what ISP the user is coming from."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while Goliath Performance Monitor is ranked 60th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Goliath Performance Monitor is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Goliath Performance Monitor writes "Monitors well with Citrix, stable, and the support is very responsive". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Goliath Performance Monitor is most compared with ControlUp, Zabbix and eG Enterprise.
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