DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor comparison

Broadcom and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Server Monitoring category. Broadcom is ranked #23, while SolarWinds is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.4. Broadcom holds a 0.8% mindshare in SM, compared to SolarWinds’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 6, 2024

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor are leading solutions in IT infrastructure monitoring. SolarWinds seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and performance metrics.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers extensive integration capabilities, scalability, and effective functionality. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor provides in-depth performance monitoring, detailed metrics, and a broad array of features for complex infrastructures.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management could benefit from a more straightforward configuration process, enhanced reporting capabilities, and better user experience. SolarWinds users seek improvements in the initial learning curve, customized alert management, and user interface simplicity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Unified Infrastructure Management is known for its smooth deployment and reliable customer support. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, while having positive feedback for deployment, can be time-intensive due to its feature set. SolarWinds customer service is acknowledged for swift and helpful responses.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management is favored for reasonable setup costs and satisfactory ROI. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, despite higher costs, delivers a higher ROI justified by its superior performance and features.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in Server Monitoring

23rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (76th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (54th), Cloud Monitoring Software (40th), AIOps (24th)

SolarWinds Server and Appli...

Ranking in Server Monitoring

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (18th), Active Directory Management (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Server Monitoring category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.8%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is 2.5%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Mark Tukh

Principal Presale Consultant at Ness Technologies

Great scalability, versatility, infrastructure coverage and ease of implementation

I rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. The number of people needed for deployment depends on the customer, but we usually need at least one person and two to three at other times. The initial implementation takes about two months. The full implementation can be infinite because you may want to implement more. The product does not require a lot of maintenance. To increase the implementation, we push additional services in the first and second years to make it more robust and fully implemented. We usually sell to big enterprises. It can also be affordable for smaller enterprises, but we don't work with them a lot. We have from 2,000 to 10,000 workers. So the product itself can have five, ten or even 20 users.

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Carlos Camargo

Senior Operations Manager at Sencinet

Provides user-friendly API features and has straightforward deployment process

One product area that could benefit from improvement is the synchronization of licensing periods across different modules. The misalignment of licensing terms can present commercial challenges when adding new modules or additional pollers. Additionally, the granularity of polling times for specific components could be enhanced to better meet individual customers' needs without impacting the entire polling pool.

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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

"Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics."

"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."

"It is very scalable."

"You can scale it pretty much however way you want to as long as you have the servers to throw at it."

"Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."

"We are able to go in and actually leverage the thick client for a nice easy drag and drop solution."

"It gives an alarm when there's something going on, not just when there's an expected spike that happens every night on a server."

"You can integrate clouds, hybrid infrastructure, and on-premise infrastructure into one product."

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"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."

"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."

"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."

"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"

"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."

"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."

"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."

"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."

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Cons

"We want to see more investment in the UI and the dashboard."

"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."

"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."

"Making a GUI with criteria such as selection by robot/hub/probe etc."

"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."

"The company has not kept pace with developments."

"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."

"Better support and more accessible resources are crucial. Customers have expressed that support is not as flexible, and it is difficult to obtain necessary information quickly."

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"Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc."

"It should also be easier to upgrade SolarWinds. AppDynamics is harder to deploy but easier to upgrade. So AppDynamics takes a lot of time and effort to install, but you can upgrade it in minutes. SolarWinds is the opposite. It's easy to deploy, but upgrades take forever. To date, nobody can complete it on time, so the production environment is sitting idle."

"Mapping interactions between systems."

"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."

"SAM's software-defined network monitoring capability is also low and could be improved."

"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."

"Reporting is the only thing with which we currently have challenges. They have this in two ways. There is the report writer, which is the backend, and we also have web reports, which are on the console. So, they have removed the report writer for the backend reports, and we are making use of the web console, but most of the users are not finding it very interesting to use the frontend reports. I would like them to bring back the report writer. That's the key area within it to improve on the reporting. If they can bring back the report writer, then most users will actually be comfortable. I have some customers who are trying to export their report to an Excel format, but it is not possible because they said any report that has been done from the web console cannot be exported to Excel, but most of the customers need to export their reports to Excel. That's one area they need to work on."

"The major concern in the product revolves around application performance monitoring since end-to-end application monitoring is not possible with the tool."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

"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."

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"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."

"The solution is overpriced in terms of application management."

"Pricing and licensing is fair for what you get. It does have a great bang-for-the-buck appeal."

"The product might cost you $30,000 USD to buy, but scaling this solution requires the purchase of additional polling engines at $20,000 USD each."

"The product is expensive."

"I would rate the pricing for this solution a three out of five."

"When compared to other licensed models in the market, it stands out as one of the more cost-effective options."

"The price is too high."

"Nagios XI, WhatsUpGold, Uptime Software, PRTG, Manage Engine, and SpiceWorks are the other tools that have lower pricing and licensing costs. However, they can't compete with SolarWinds when it comes to the features and functionality that SolarWinds can provide."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Educational Organization

26%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

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Midsize Enterprise

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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 do you like most about SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Identifying the problem statement is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

The initial cost is quite high, but the renewal cost is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

There are no specific features or functionality I would like to see improved or enhanced in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor at this time. I have not encountered any missing features or fu...

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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

SolarWinds SAM

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

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers powerful application and server monitoring capabilities for IT pros, enabling them to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues faster. Do not let slow applications and downtime impact your end-users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack. SolarWinds SAM is affordable and easy to deploy, use, and customize. You can automatically discover your system's environment and start monitoring in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.

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Sample Customers

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

Andr. L. Riis AS, NetSuite

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