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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and FortiMonitor compete in infrastructure and monitoring solutions. FortiMonitor has the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set that outweighs the initial cost drawbacks.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management includes robust monitoring capabilities, seamless integration, and flexible customization, offering detailed infrastructure insights. FortiMonitor is equipped with advanced analytics, proactive alerts, and diverse integrations, ensuring extensive data visibility and enabling in-depth infrastructure analysis. Its broader feature set contributes to superior long-term insights.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management can enhance its analytics depth, expand its alerting systems, and diversify its integration options to match FortiMonitor's capabilities. FortiMonitor could improve its pricing model for initial investments, simplify its feature usage for new users, and enhance customer support efficiency compared to DX Unified Infrastructure Management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers a straightforward deployment model with effective customer service, making onboarding easy. FortiMonitor uses a cloud-based deployment strategy, supported by dedicated service, ensuring scalability. Nonetheless, DX Unified Infrastructure Management is favored for its ease of deployment and responsive support.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management has competitive setup costs and favorable ROI through efficient resource management. FortiMonitor requires a higher initial investment with potentially lower immediate ROI. However, its extensive features are seen as worth the cost over time, making it advantageous for long-term benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
75th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
55th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
120
Ranking in other categories
Server Monitoring (24th), Cloud Monitoring Software (41st), AIOps (21st)
FortiMonitor
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
14th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
15th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (8th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.4%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of FortiMonitor is 0.7%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Arunpandiyan M - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support
There are quite a few manual processes. We've had issues with pulling reports. Sometimes we have trouble or get errors. The reporting process should be easier. If you have a hub, you should be able to have an unlimited number of servers. For example, if you have 500 servers, and the limit is ten, you have to pull 50 reports. We'd like to just pull one report for all servers. This also increases the time to pull reports. If we have to pull more reports, it takes that much longer than just pulling one. The product can be expensive. Right now, they are updating and consolidating the dashboard. I'm expecting an update that will resolve a few glitches in the server.
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JaimeVasquez - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring capabilities keep operations running smoothly and alerts enhance proactive system management
We use FortiMonitor to monitor the infrastructure of our customers. We check on what is happening with their operations, monitor bandwidth, ensure configurations are appropriate for the customer, and identify if anything is going wrong The most valuable features of FortiMonitor are its redundancy…
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"DX UIM is scalable."
"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."
"Scalability and flexibility. The product can grow with your infrastructure so you don't have to install other products. Just add components. It's very simple."
"It is reliable when it comes to monitoring."
"Great out-of-the-box capability."
"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."
"You can scale it pretty much however way you want to as long as you have the servers to throw at it."
"The feature that we've found to be very helpful is the way the solution categorizes the devices to identify groups, groups of devices and clusters. This allows us to be aware of their position within the topology."
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"The tool continuously improves, adapting to support new vendors and technologies. Importantly, it automates the process, triggering alerts when devices require attention, and eliminating the need for manual intervention."
"The most valuable feature of FortiMonitor is user monitoring. We are able to see if the user is following the policy or not from their system. Additionally, the solution integrates well with Fortinet FortiGate and has centralized management."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is what the devices are used for. We have big backups for our Cradlepoint solutions, but FortiMonitor is a great routing device and we love working with them."
"Overall, I would recommend FortiMonitor to others."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"The most valuable feature of FortiMonitor is the overall ability to monitor the health of the environment."
"FortiMonitor is really easy to use for monitoring the logs on FortiGate...It is a stable product."
"With FortiMonitor, you can get all the logs of the traffic information of the destination or the source."
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Cons

"Reporting capability can be improved especially when it comes to availability."
"I'd also like to see more probes. More probes in the sense that we were coming across devices that we're expected to monitor and manage for which, out of the box, there isn't a nice, clean solution. There are probes that are dedicated for certain devices and certain device types, which is great. But then there are times we come across nuanced products that we have to develop our own solution for. There are probes that exist in there that allow us to make a customized solution, but it takes a lot more time."
"It is a little complex to use versus other softwares."
"Customers have expressed that support is not as flexible, and it is difficult to obtain necessary information quickly."
"There is also room for improvement in the reporting. It is not really good enough, according to our customers. So what we now usually do is use Power BI to get them the kinds of reports they want."
"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"The company has not kept pace with developments."
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". Enhancements in the dashboard, such as clearer alerting, maintenance window management, software version tracking, and better visualization, would be beneficial."
"There is room for improvement in the FortiMonitor report. It is not ideal for showcasing to tech customers or managers, especially when trying to display high CPU usage from logins within a specific range of months or the most recent month."
"Additionally, there are no AI features in FortiMonitor, which might be an area for enhancement."
"FortiMonitor could be improved by making it more convenient for smaller workloads, such as when configuring a few branches."
"FortiMonitor's monitoring could be much better. It should be like, in Palo Alto."
"Sometimes, we get corruption when upgrading from firmware to the new generation, causing a lot of issues."
"The tool's price in Vietnam is high, making it an area of concern where improvements can be made."
"Sometimes, during high CPU usage, we cannot access FortiMonitor and must refresh it."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."
"Pricing for DX Unified Infrastructure Management isn't cheap at all. It's a complex tool, so you have to pay more. No one is happy with a large bill to pay, but if it's a complex product and you designed a complex solution to be monitored, it'll be your fault that you need to buy an expensive product, and that would be implicit in the design of DX Unified Infrastructure Management. Monitoring is just a small part of it. Sometimes you have to pay a significant amount of money for a complex yet very good solution."
"This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."
"CAD $400,000 annually."
"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."
"The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."
"On a scale from one to ten, I rate the pricing a nine since it is a good solution that is available at a cheap price."
"In terms of licensing, while it may not be the most expensive option on the market, it's relatively cost-effective. You can obtain licenses at a lower cost, with the calculation being straightforward. For example, if you onboard around 5,000 devices, you'll need approximately 5,000 licenses, as each device typically counts as one license."
"The price of FortiMonitor is approximately $200 annually for 225 users. The price is competitive."
"FortiMonitor's price is very high."
"There are additional costs needed for certain functionality, such as scalability."
"We have a large customer base for Fortinet, and the additional buying power got us really great discounts."
"Compared to other solutions, FortiMonitor is a very expensive solution."
"The tool's pricing model in Vietnam is a bit high. I rate the product price as an eight out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Real Estate/Law Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
29%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Healthcare Company
6%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for DX Infrastructure Manager?
We are an integrating company that offers DX Unified Infrastructure Management to customers. We help them set it up, do the integration, and provide support. Our end customers include financial ins...
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What advice do you have for others considering DX Infrastructure Manager?
I would recommend DX Unified Infrastructure Management to others as it is a good and reliable solution. I would rate it nine out of ten due to its robust functionality and capability to support inf...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Infrastructure Manager?
The pricing of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is high and often a concern for customers. The cost is higher compared to other Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), which is feedback we hav...
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What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
I have a clear bias because I work for Panopta. We aren't a fit for everyone, but I can confirm that Panopta is a lot less work to stand up and maintain. It's also a lot easier to use and onboard n...
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What do you like most about FortiMonitor?
In FortiMonitor, we're linked up with our Netgear, CactusServer, and NOC. It's really valuable because everything's migrating to one dashboard for us system engineers. We can keep an eye on traffic...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FortiMonitor?
FortiMonitor does save time but not significantly on costs, as there are still expenses related to procurement, installation, and licensing.
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Also Known As

DX Infrastructure Manager, DX Infrastructure Manager for Z Systems and CA UIM for zSystems, CA UIM (DX Infrastructure Manager), CA Nimsoft Monitor, CA UIM, DX Infrastructure Manager
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Overview

DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability and zero-touch configuration for monitoring traditional data center, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

Designed to ensure an optimal end-user experience, this solution provides a modern HTML5 operations console that makes it easy and fast for today’s IT teams to implement, use, and scale – leading to faster time to value.

Broadcom

FortiMonitor is a comprehensive, SaaS-based digital experience monitoring (DEM) platform that helps organizations modernize their performance-monitoring tools. It provides visibility into endpoint application performance and digital experience—no matter where the user resides or where the application is hosted.

Fortinet
 

Sample Customers

CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex
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