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.
"From an administrative standpoint, what stands out in TrueSight is the ability to implement quickly. When they have a requirement to monitor something, we're able to turn that on quickly in their environment. We're able to set up new apps within a day."
"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is the dashboard presentation server."
"The tailoring of the knowledge modules has been particularly useful as I can streamline the agents to only report on critical events."
"The major advantage of the product is estate management."
"I like the event management part."
"It is breadth. It covers so many different technologies which can roll up into a single console."
"The tool is flexible enough to be customized based on customer requirements."
"It has provided us with a single location to host all events to be viewed/monitored by our NOC. This has greatly helped them to streamline their processes."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"The solution is overly complex."
"In a large company of our size, we need multiple people in our company trained. So, I have to take the training classes. Then, I have to go and train the rest of my organization. I would prefer to say to the other people on my team, "Go to this link and..." Or, "Here's a list of training sessions that you can go to which are online and that are free." I think it would help the adoption of their product in the marketplace, personally."
"The dashboards are not good. We have a limited dashboard, and if we want better dashboards, we need to use other solutions like Grafana because the TrueSight dashboards are not good."
"BMC's online documentation is often incorrect or incomplete."
"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."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could improve the reporting."
"BMC's solutions for cloud monitoring (monitoring of AWS and Azure resources) are very poor in stability and customization."
"The dashboard and performance graphs should include a way to automatically schedule and export reports."
"The user interface could be better."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"Its UI should be improved. They did some improvements in version 5, but it could benefit from some more work. Its integrations should also be improved. They've been active for one year, and they seem to have noticed that. It has new integrations, but it could benefit from more integrations. As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this."
"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."
"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."
"Zabbix can use better documentation and support for troubleshooting."
"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."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
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BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 16th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 50 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, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM. See our BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. Zabbix report.
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