We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and WhatsUp Gold 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."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"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."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"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."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Nagios XI, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our DX Spectrum vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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