DX Performance Management vs Zabbix comparison

DX Performance Management

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Zabbix and DX Performance Management are competitors in network monitoring solutions. Zabbix seems to have the upper hand due to its flexibility and cost-effectiveness, providing a wider range of monitoring without licensing fees.

Features: Zabbix offers open-source solutions with no paid features or licensing costs, automated discovery, and strong community support for scalability and flexibility. It provides versatile monitoring across systems including network interfaces and virtual machines. DX Performance Management is known for integration capabilities, comprehensive network data handling, and robust dashboards, with extensive device support and synergy with CA products.

Room for Improvement: Zabbix needs better reporting features, a more user-friendly interface, and enhanced templates. Its documentation is often seen as lacking, and technology integration can be inadequate. DX Performance faces challenges with complex deployment, high initial configuration, and limited customization options. It could improve alerting features and high-availability capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zabbix offers flexible deployment on-premises, hybrid, and private cloud environments, yet users often find setup challenging. While community support is extensive, technical support can be costly. DX Performance provides relatively easy on-premises deployment with strong official support, though sometimes not flexible enough or immediately responsive. Customers value its integration within the CA ecosystem but point out significant initial configuration requirements.

Pricing and ROI: Zabbix is an attractive option as a free open-source platform, eliminating licensing fees and offering quick ROI by reducing operational costs. The main investment is in time and skill for setup and maintenance, favoring organizations with technical expertise. DX Performance requires higher upfront costs due to licensing and support but delivers comprehensive features. Its pricing is deemed reasonable, particularly when bundled with other CA products, offering value for extensive monitoring needs.

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DX Performance Management vs. Zabbix

December 2024

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Categories and Ranking

DX Performance Management

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

31st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure Capacity Planning (2nd), DX NetOps (1st)

Zabbix

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

103

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (9th), Server Monitoring (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Performance Management is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zabbix is 11.3%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Sandip Kheni

Lead Developer at STL - Sterlite Technologies Limited

The vertical database loads faster than any other product available

We experience disconnections between the solutions own components. In the last five years, there have been many intermittent connection issues with the four components and we still don't know the reasons. The solution has issues when loading groups that have been created in the application interfaces. It would be nice to have a mobile application. In the current industry and technical word, the mobile phone is the only thing that is always in your hands. Other Broadcom products have mobile applications but the solution doesn't offer one. It would be great to view device parameters and view or download graphs from a mobile device.

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ASM Naushad Alam

Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes

We have not yet purchased the commercial version so have a lack of technical ability. We do not yet fully know the key points or key features of the solution. We just use what we use along with WhatsUp Gold. Based on our use only, stability is rated a seven out of ten.

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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

"It is the gathering of the whole performance data in our environment and our network environment, for us and our customers."

"It can be easily integrated with other systems and is powerful enough to collect data from a large number of devices."

"You can have thousands of devices inside and hundreds of thousands of interphases without a problem."

"There is a good amount of vendor certification which comes with the product. That's all factory-loaded, no need to load any custom-made files. Most of the metrics are calibrated and captured from the devices based on the defaults available from vendor certification."

"Scalability is the reason we bought the product to begin with. It was designed from the ground up for carrier-grade services, and we are in effect a MSP ourselves. So we were really interested in looking at something to be able to handle the multi-tenancy and scale as large as possible. This was the only solution that we really considered at that level."

"The ability to very quickly and graphically navigate around, being able to zoom in to a timeframe, apply it to all the other panels... are all very intuitive."

"One of the most valuable features is the ease of use."

"Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on."

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"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."

"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."

"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."

"Zabbix is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."

"The basic setup is very easy."

"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."

"It's a flexible solution."

"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."

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Cons

"There are some areas in the technology right now, like with VMs, where we are lacking with our abilities to get inside the VM to monitor traffic within the machine."

"I would like to have more tasks, graphs, and possibilities for linking to the graphs and reports added to the solution."

"It would be helpful if CA provided online training for its customers."

"We experience disconnections between the solutions own components."

"For CA PM, there should be a way of easily migrating the reports coming from eHealth going to CA Performance Center, since CA PC is replacing eHealth."

"It seems like we escalate more than I would like to. If anything, they should look at how the tier support goes in place."

"Install is done as root, which is a security no-no, and the database IO requirements were not stated correctly, which lead to a year of instability."

"The quantity of views which are tied to specific metric families is too high. Also, the problem is the view doesn't tell you which metric family it uses, so you don't know why you don't see data."

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"Sometimes, the documentation is a little bit written in Estonia – a country in Europe. The language barrier and translation to English can sometimes make it difficult to understand what they're trying to get at. It's just a language thing."

"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."

"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great."

"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."

"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."

"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."

"The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."

"The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"They should provide more scalable licensing for the product."

"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."

"We purchase a license to use the solution every three years and we have multiple contracts. They have been increasing the price annually. We have a baseline for three years and then we need to pay the difference from the baseline, and we are in the process of negotiating a new price for all the licenses we need. The price overall is affordable."

"Do your homework and know how many devices you will be managing out of the gate. Be sure to project what your growth will be each year."

"We were looking at other vendors in the marketplace for NetFlow, and CA just beat everybody else in price, cost, and the size to implement. "

"The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices."

"It's free software released under the GNU/GPL license."

"There is no license but we need to pay for support."

"It’s free of cost."

"There are no licenses."

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"There is a license required for this solution and we pay annually for our license."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"It is reasonable."

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Comparison Review

it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Educational Organization

39%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DX Performance Management?

The tool helps us understand network performance.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Performance Management?

The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices.

What needs improvement with DX Performance Management?

DX Performance Management should increase high availability. If one of my two data centers goes offline and the other is operational, I need a seamless transition from the primary to the secondary ...

What do you like most about Zabbix?

The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?

I use the tool's free version.

What needs improvement with Zabbix?

I'm using the free version of Zabbix, and I'd like to see more customization options, especially for setting trigger thresholds.

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Overview

CA Performance Management is a comprehensive and highly scalable network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It was built to meet the unique demands of big data and modern networks architectures, including highly dynamic and complex hybrid cloud and software-defined networks (SDN).

The platform is design to reduce complexity inherent in modern networks built across numerous technology stacks through advanced network performance monitoring and relationship mapping for improved operational assurance.

Combined with CA Virtual Network Assurance, the platform extends operator visibility through advanced discovery and network performance monitoring of highly sensitive cloud and multi-layered SDN networks and service chains.

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software that provides real-time monitoring and alerting for servers, networks, applications, and services.

It offers a wide range of features including data collection, visualization, and reporting.

With its user-friendly interface and customizable dashboards, Zabbix helps organizations ensure the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure.

Sample Customers

Jack Henry & Assoc, Target, CenturyLink, Bell Canada, BrightHouse Networks, Telus, Unisys, Verizon, Southern California Edison, GEICO, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo, American Family Insurance Group, Deutsche Telekom AG

1. IBM 2. Dell 3. Cisco 4. HP 5. Oracle 6. Microsoft 7. Amazon 8. Google 9. Facebook 10. Twitter 11. LinkedIn 12. Netflix 13. Adobe 14. VMware 15. Salesforce 16. SAP 17. Intel 18. AT&T 19. Verizon 20. T-Mobile 21. Vodafone 22. Ericsson 23. Nokia 24. Siemens 25. General Electric 26. Honeywell 27. Philips 28. Sony 29. Samsung 30. LG 31. Panasonic 32. Toshiba