DX Spectrum vs. Selector Analytics

As I said before, not only for Spectrum, but for any monitoring tool, you need to know what is critical in your environment and think about how exactly you should monitor and treat it. If you have done that, everything will work just fine.

• Well Suited - Networking Monitoring
• Less Appropriate - When you need to customize some monitoring and to update the version

Incentivized

Selector Analytics has proven very useful for our SRE and DevOps teams. It addresses our concern of being able to monitor network health and gives good analytics for our needs. It also helps with problem identification quickly so that we can resolve any potential issues. Getting an idea of network health allows us to identify potential problems beforehand, and we can take measures to fix them.

Incentivized

• Polling and traps can be configured to take heartbeats at specified intervals and notify on an event in real-time, respectively.
• Topology of devices gives a high-level overview of network architecture.
• Discovery of devices is simple and secure with the use of community strings.
• Details can be added per device or alarm type for actions to be taken to make troubleshooting easier.

Incentivized

• Network Health Monitoring.
• Realtime Actionable Insights.
• Identifying ways to fix problems.

Incentivized

• NOC
• Data Center/Telecom

Incentivized

• Dashboard Customizations would be good to have.
• Integration with tools such as Slack.

Incentivized

Other tools I have used are more server/application-centric. CA Spectrum seems to work effectively and efficiently for network devices. Notification delays can be set to grant grace periods in case of network blips or false positives, which occur ALL the time. Other monitoring tools send event notifications immediately and would clear instantly, which while on-call can wake a technician for no reason.

Incentivized

• Proactive monitoring for networking
• To many times to plan an update

Incentivized

• Helped us identify problems faster.
• Insights to identify ways to prevent future problems.
• Helps us resolve problems faster.
• Reduced our server costs - as we know when to scale up and when to scale down.

Incentivized