We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Meraki Dashboard 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."Offers a lot of functionality."
"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."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"I like that Meraki Dashboard is a user-friendly product."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"Some of the features I have found valuable are the ease of access, simple configuration, and monitoring."
"What I found most valuable in the Meraki Dashboard is straight monitoring of the different devices, as well as the ability to easily set up VPNs, for example, both Meraki client VPNs and non-Meraki VPNs for different organizations that work with my company. I also like that the tool is a really good firewall."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and technically very complete. I can configure, do advanced troubleshooting in the dashboard, and reboot access points remotely."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"It's a very complex system. Customers have told me that sometimes there are lots of advanced features that are available and that you can change in the dashboard, but sometimes it's very hard to know what they are."
"What needs improvement in Meraki Dashboard is its configuration. It'll also be better if the tool has more functionality, and that is what I'd like to see in its next release."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"Some features could be added."
"Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues."
"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 13 reviews while Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 15 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Meraki Dashboard is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Makes it easier to understand root cause and troubleshoot". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, DX Performance Management and IBM Tivoli NetCool, whereas Meraki Dashboard is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Auvik. See our DX Spectrum vs. Meraki Dashboard report.
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