We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and PRTG Network Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"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."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"It is user-friendly. It is easy to set up health checks within PRTG and use scans. It is like a self-service tool, and anyone can configure their own settings within PRTG."
"The solution is scalable."
"I would boldly say that this is the most scalable network monitoring tool that I know of"
"PRTG has improved our visibility and response time to issues related to remote sites."
"I think net flow is PRTG's most valuable feature because it doesn't cost much for us because the net flow sensor is already included in the PRTG license. We can monitor our traffic in our proxy and router."
"I like the mobility of the PRTG Network Monitor and ITOps Dashboard."
"The solution is very easy to use and the web provides information with ease."
"We can see trends for a lot of different things, such as hard drive space and bandwidth usage. We can see and plan for the future by knowing, "We're sort of at 75% capacity now. In three months time, we know we're going to be up to 90%,so we need to plan ahead for it, getting upgrades booked in place." Since things like this take time and effort, it's handy to see trends into the future of where our company is going."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"Users need to buy the more expensive licenses if they expect to be able to scale."
"The Desktop app is good but it can be really sluggish at times, especially when you're editing different elements."
"I would like a more straightforward ability to create dashboards and maps. The network maps should be a bit more flexibility in the GUI to do what we need to do."
"More training videos for installing and configuring this software would have been nice, especially when working with a lot of devices."
"The product could be improved by being cross-platform friendly."
"I know we're going to move to Docker applications and I understand that PRTG does some monitoring regarding this. I do not know if it is complete. If it's not yet complete, it's something they should consider improving."
"The dashboarding definitely needs improvement."
"We've had some issues previously with the performance of the sensors. We tend to deploy quite a bit of WMI, which is quite processor-intensive, and we've found that that impacts the sensors quite a bit."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while PRTG Network Monitor 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 PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our DX Spectrum vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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