We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and ThousandEyes 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 solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"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."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"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."
"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."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics. See our DX Spectrum vs. ThousandEyes report.
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