We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and NetCrunch 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 most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language 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."
"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."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while NetCrunch is ranked 77th in Network Monitoring Software. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while NetCrunch 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 NetCrunch writes "A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas NetCrunch is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Fortinet FortiSIEM.
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