"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."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"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."
"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 think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"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."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. 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 Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Dynatrace.
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