We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring 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 most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"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."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."
"It's a flexible solution."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"Zabbix is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"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."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"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."
"The event correlation could be better."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 96 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Zabbix 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 Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center, HPE Intelligent Management Center and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core. See our DX Spectrum vs. Zabbix report.
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