We compared BMC TrueSight Operations Management and Zabbix across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: BMC TrueSight Operations Management's initial setup can be complex, depending on the environment and prerequisites, while Zabbix can range from easy to complex depending on technical skills and infrastructure. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is considered to have high pricing, suitable for enterprise customers, whereas Zabbix is free and open-source. The ROI of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is uncertain, while Zabbix has provided a return on investment for users, especially large enterprises. Customer support for both varies, with mixed reviews for BMC TrueSight Operations Management and varying experiences with Zabbix's support.
"Helix Innovation Studio is a very good feature. It allows us to develop our own enterprise applications and make them available for the customers."
"The ability to pull hosts together to show what processes are running, so it can be used for change management."
"I like everything about this tool. I recommend this solution to anyone looking for a standalone solution with high availability meaning that can be used depending on the customers requirements."
"Intelligent solution with a proactive monitoring feature and consolidated dashboard that's stable and easy to scale."
"The most valuable features of the solution are alert management, alert generation, and event management."
"The fact that they have a very integrated relationship with Sentry Software, the Knowledge Module, is valuable... The richest feature for us is the number of Knowledge Modules that we can load into the product to add breadth of service to the customer. It enables us to move up the operational stack from hardware, to operating system, to application, and to cloud... That enables us to provide one pane of glass over all those layers - hardware, OS, app, and cloud."
"I believe that the ease of use and UI is great"
"The major advantage of the product is estate management."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"The basic setup is very easy."
"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."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"The most valuable feature is monitoring."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The one piece that I would love to see is a general-purpose, configurable agent which would be a framework that you can deploy on anything, whether it be Java or anything else. It would allow you to easily deploy it on a platform that they support."
"Reporting would be an area for improvement in TrueSight... We have almost 800 customers today on TrueSight and just under 10,000 assets. We need to be able to give a customer some information. If the customer's product fails, they'll ask us, "Did it have a problem beforehand?" We have all those events and we know all the problems it had beforehand. We have to be able to give them access to that kind of reporting. That's an enhancement that we need."
"Specifically around application performance monitoring, BMC is definitely not the market leader. The Dynatraces, the New Relics and the like are more of the market leaders in that space. I would like to see them grow that space a little bit more aggressively. It has not really been their bread and butter."
"The solution should improve predicting events and flaws in service. It also needs to improve integration with other systems."
"The product must provide more AI capabilities."
"The solution is overly complex."
"I would like to see a little more out-of-the-box event correlation and expanded AIOps type capabilities. Where you can train your artificial intelligence operations to be able to memorize an issue once you encounter one scenario, so if you encounter that same problem, you can get to the root cause very quickly."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could improve the reporting."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"My company wanted to do an exercise command to access IT from Cameroon. They wanted to access an FSS to a second host with second equipment that was on another coast but it is not possible on Zabbix to do it. They want to directly access from the front-end of Zabbix to access a prompt in Zabbix to an access terminal. In the front-end, there is no way to do that. That would be an important improvement."
"There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."
"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."
"The user interface could be better."
"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."
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BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 17th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 49 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, New Relic and Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. Zabbix report.
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