We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom and others in DX NetOps."This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"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 Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"The fault management is perfect."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The integration with other SolarWinds products is good."
"What the network team found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it helps them to troubleshoot or analyze the issue. For example, traffic that comes from our location: India, goes to the US, so for the network team to analyze where the traffic comes from and where it is directed, and whether the packets are being dropped, they use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. The network team also likes that through the solution, they can analyze the complete traffic utilization and how they're going to use it. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is user-friendly. The team finds it comfortable to use."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"As it offers enterprise solutions, it has all the essential features for business."
"The performance analysis is a valuable feature. With the performance analyzer, we can see the realtime monitoring, the realtime performance, and historical performance on specific components like virtualization storage, CPU, servers and network equipment."
"This solution gives us important information about the utilization of protocols, particularly in terms of how often they are used."
"The most valuable features are the bandwidth analyzer, the monitoring, the network analyzer, it has overall good performance, and an easy deployment."
"The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"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."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"I'm expecting to see a little bit more artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. They need a bit more sophistication in that."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"It can be complex to set up and configure."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"There are some areas for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. There are some challenges with the solution when compared to other monitoring tools such as difficulty in operations and difficulty with backup installation. My team is currently trying out different solutions but would need to see how it goes."
"One area that we struggle with is the price. Because the price of this solution is so high, we are largely unable to introduce it into the local market, and only the banking sector has the means to afford it."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
"It should be easy to modify the front end."
"In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually. For example, if we collect a report file every day and want to send it to a moderator for review. We are expecting this feature to come out soon but it would be valuable to have now."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."
"When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
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