We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The fault management is perfect."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"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."
"My organization can leverage IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to learn more about how clients perform because the solution lets you monitor and optimize devices and apply best practices."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"What I want to improve in IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is the community aspect, where IDERA would provide customers with updates on functionalities, what comes next, what IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor upgrades would be released, etc. I also want the sustainability of IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to improve."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is ranked 60th in Network Monitoring Software with 5 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor writes "It offers different licensing types that allow you to extend the services to clients; it lets you look into device performance and optimization and helps apply best practices". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is most compared with Zabbix.
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