We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Nagios Core 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."
"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."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"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."
"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."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"Our customers like that Nagios Core is an open source solution. It can be customized to our customers' specific needs."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"The most valuable feature depends on the project. It's great if you need to check to ensure a service is running 24/7. I can use the full solution for free, and it's flexible. If I need to add a dashboard, I can integrate it with Nagios. Cloud synchronization is wonderful."
"We use the product to monitor server applications."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"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."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"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."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"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."
"It is a bit slow due to latency."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
"I would like to see more training videos."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"We're using the free version, which limits us in terms of the things that we can do. If we had the paid version, a lot of our issues would probably go away. For example, we can't isolate instances that are being built or updated with the production ones. When they're being built, on Nagios, they're showing in red. It'd be nice to be able to partition those off until they're all green, and then we can bring them into the environment. This is probably because we've got the free version and not the paid version. If we went for the paid version, it would probably allow us to do exactly what we want to or remove the restrictions that we have, but if we are able to isolate instances in the free version, it would make life much easier."
"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Nagios Core 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 Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Centreon, Icinga and OP5 Monitor. See our DX Spectrum vs. Nagios Core report.
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