We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Icinga based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"Icinga does the job and is fairly stable."
"It is really easy in Icinga to create your own plugin and integrate it without any fuss. And it works just perfectly fine."
"The best thing about the solution is how it highlights errors, the issues, and what needs my attention. The solution directs me to areas that I should look for first."
"An affordable solution for small organizations to do basic network monitoring."
"The drafts are easy but what I like about Icinga is that there are many add-ons that you can download."
"The apply rules feature saves a lot of time."
"This solution has a self-healing handler where if the service is down, it is automatically restarted."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"The installation and configuration are very complex."
"We have found some problems with Nagios, and support isn't very responsive."
"The tool currently fails to provide notifications to users."
"The solution lacks many features important to higher-level IT management and network support."
"In general, the product does not look good. However, it does what it is supposed to do. So, the improvements should focus on usability and UI."
"I think the software is quite good, but we have had problems with getting it to recognize certain areas and amend certain checks, where we needed so we would have to create backend scripts for those checks. Though, being open source, it has the support to create backend scripts, it would be better to have these scripts in-built."
"Icinga is a complex solution that's hard to learn. It's a powerful product for monitoring, but new users will have a hard time figuring out what to do."
"At this time, the layout of the website is a bit difficult. It should be more user-friendly for changing the background and logos."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while Icinga is ranked 22nd in Network Monitoring Software with 16 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Icinga 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 Icinga writes "A stable, scalable and cost-effective solution that helps with inbuilt scripts for easy modification". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Icinga is most compared with Zabbix, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI and Centreon. See our DX Spectrum vs. Icinga report.
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