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We performed a comparison between DX Unified Infrastructure Management and SolarWinds Pingdom 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.
To learn more, read our detailed DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. SolarWinds Pingdom Report (Updated: September 2020).
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Pros
"It is the foundation for our monitoring solution.""It is very scalable.""Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports.""The benefit is easy installation. Thus, the model approach of the product and out-of-the-box probes, which deliver direct value.""The number of probes available. Out of the box, I believe about 200 probes are available. And, if there's a probe that is not available, you can write one. You can also go to the communities and suggest, and based on demand, CA will write one for you.""You can integrate clouds, hybrid infrastructure, and on-premise infrastructure into one product.""Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics.""Great out-of-the-box capability."

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"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time""The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting.""There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work.""One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."

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Cons
"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.""I would like to see auditability. We've built our own audit functionality to ensure that every CI has the desired model configuration applied to it. And we run that on a daily basis. If that became part of the product, I think it might be a little bit less intensive in terms of resource, because we're doing it with scripts.""The dashboards need to be improved.""It is a little complex to use versus other softwares.""Stability.""We've had issues with pulling reports.""The UIM has no features through goods and services yet. ​""The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."

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"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier.""Technical support could use some improvement.""Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI.""I would like to see better integration with other products."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."
  • "The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."
  • "The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."
  • "Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."
  • "CAD $400,000 annually."
  • "Customers pay for the license and the support."
  • "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."
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  • "This price of this solution is reasonable."
  • "The license was paid yearly and included technical support."
  • "While I wouldn't describe it as excessively expensive, if you require specific and reliable monitoring, SolarWinds can be a suitable option. The advantage is that SolarWinds offers a free version as well. If you don't heavily rely on its monitoring capabilities and are content with its basic features, the free version could suffice for your needs."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue. We would also like to see some enhancements in assignment… more »
    Top Answer:I primarily use DX UIM to capture performance data and faults.
    Top Answer:One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive.
    Top Answer:Some of the functions could improve by making them easier. There is room for improvement when it comes to the graphs provided by the software. Additionally, there seems to be an issue with the ping… more »
    Top Answer:SolarWinds Pingdom and Cloudflare are third-party applications that we utilize through a browser without any additional setup. We simply rely on their services, which is why I lack familiarity with… more »
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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.

    SolarWinds® Pingdom® is a powerful and affordable SaaS-based web app performance monitoring solution. It’s one product providing comprehensive web app performance and user experience monitoring consisting of four major capabilities:

    1. Uptime monitoring for webpages and other critical components like APIs, CDNs, DNS, networks, email, and more.

    2. Page speed performance monitoring and page rankings.

    3. Synthetic transaction monitoring from the simplest to the most complex transactions. 

    4. Real user monitoring (RUM), enabling a deeper and wider understanding of the user’s digital experience, and web application availability and performance. 

    Sample Customers
    CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex
    Spotify, MailChimp, Slack, Twitter
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Healthcare Company12%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Insurance Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company19%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Educational Organization54%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Manufacturing Company3%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise61%
    Large Enterprise28%
    Buyer's Guide
    DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. SolarWinds Pingdom
    September 2020
    Find out what your peers are saying about DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. SolarWinds Pingdom and other solutions. Updated: September 2020.
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    DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 31st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 120 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 49th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, SCOM, DX Spectrum, ManageEngine OpManager and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.

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