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We also have been using WhatsUp Gold for ten years. Zappix is a Linux solution and WhatsUp Gold is a Windows solution.
We have a basic license for WhatsUp Gold and have purchased upgrades. In our country, there is no local expert tied with the OEM. The support team that is provided is not acceptable to us.
The solution, SolarWinds, and WhatsUp Gold are good for monitoring servers but lack the functionality to find problems or root causes for any system, application, or service.
ThousandEyes and AppDynamics find actual problems with networks, applications, or services. We are looking more at these products because our goal is to find all loopholes.
For example, the solution or WhatsUp Gold might identify a packet loss. But ThousandEyes or AppDynamics will drill to the highest problem such as the HTML or a Cisco network problem. This approach is much more interesting.
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Nurdine Rajabo
Information Security Officer at Kenmare Resources Mauritius
I have evaluated PRTG and SolarWinds.
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WimCoenen
CTO at Conscia
We looked at Zoom, however, we never ended up using it.
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Zabbix
March 2024
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Faycal Noushi
CEO/Founder at Zen Networks
We evaluated different solutions in 2012 and 2017. We favor open-source solutions or open-core solutions that support open-source models. These open-core solutions are not open source, but they have an open model. They come with plugins. Such solutions are the best because they offer flexibility, and you can add your own monitoring on top of them. You can add your own plugins and extend a solution beyond its original capabilities. A proprietary solution such as SolarWinds is not that flexible because it is closed. You have to find a suitable plugin or module, but you can't really develop something on top of it. There is an SDK, but it is really hard to use. I've never rarely seen it used.
Zabbix is a solution we offer to answer some of the main customer monitoring requirements . The solution that we go for depends on the environment in which it will be used. We select one of these depending on a customer's environment and prerequisites. We see whether a customer's environment is really rich, and how many customized and standard applications a customer has. Zabbix also has more integrations with on-prem infrastructure and cloud solutions.
In comparison with Nagios and alike solutions, Zabbix is less fragmented providing better integrated components. They also invested in the last years quite a lot of development efforts to build new custom integrations.
View full review »We had to evaluate several options including SolarWinds NPM, PRTG, OpenNMS, Cacti, Nagios, and Zenoss Core. We used Huawei U2000, Cisco Prime and PRTG for some devices before we switched to Zabbix.
View full review »Nagios, Prometheus, Check_MK, Adagios, Icinga 2, Zenoss, PRTG, and Cacti.
View full review »I had very good references for Zabbix, but I did have a look at Pandora FMS and Nagios.
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David Collier
Co-Founder at Nobius IT
Nagios - too much development effort to maintain and configure.
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Brad Simonin
Sr. Linux Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We evaluated SCOM.
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AVELINO MARTINEZ
Engineering manager at BGH Tech Partner
We have some clients that have WhatsUp Gold but a few say they are oriented specifically for IT data centers, but that's not the orientation of our project. Some clients ask for WhatsUp Gold but most of the applications are not near to our needs. Some people are using Zabbix and recommend Zabbix.
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Florent ADODO
IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier
I have not tested any other solutions. I looked at most of the other products, but we have to pay for them.
To resolve a fixed problem, I would have asked the management to purchase the product, which would take time. Instead, I read the review and installed Zabbix directly to resolve my connection issue.
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Venkatesh Shanmugavel
Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We have evaluated other solutions.
View full review »Our choices were Geneos, Nagios, Zabbix, Centreon, and Cacti. We chose Zabbix because we did a proof of concept, and Zabbix was the best. It had the richest functions, and it was free.
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Alex Leaves
Support Team and Services at konverge technologies pvt ltd
We have not weighed other options like SolarWinds or ManageEngine. This is the first one we have tried. It is somewhat early for me to say what Zabbix's advantages are relative to others.
View full review »Yes. Nagios: This product it's the de-facto for open source network monitoring. System Center Operations Manager: The monitoring solution of Microsoft.
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In our company we are always following the latest trends on the market so we try to follow them all as much as needed. Our preference goes mostly out to Zabbix of course.
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Ronald Rood
Principal Technical Consultant at CIBER
We checked the above mentioned options. Zabbix came out as a winner. Simple, good web application, no need for fat clients which makes maintenance simpler. Zabbix does not have the nicest GUI, compared with some above but it is certainly acceptable, especially when pricing is taking into account. Especially with the postgres database in combination with the timescaleDB options is has an excellent performance. It has a clean database design and handling.
If state of the art reporting is important, integrate with grafana. It can be done via the api and directly on the zabbix database.
View full review »I had the option to stay with Nagios or switch to Zabbix. I switched.
View full review »Before choosing Zabbix, we evaluated Nagios but we were not comfortable with notifications messages syntax and configurations.
View full review »We looked at other solutions; stay with Centreon's newer version.
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Of course. We need to check other oprions all the time. Some software we evaluated: Nagios, Zenoos, HypericHQ, PandoraFMS, BigBrother/Quest.
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When I was looking for the best solution for our monitoring needs, before choosing Zabbix, i had evaluated other tools options like Nagios.
View full review »No, I did not evaluate other options before choosing this product.
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HyunWoo Jo
IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I checked Nagios, but I didn’t seriously evaluate it.
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Spiceworks.
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We evaluated many products such as HPE SiteScope, Nagios etc.
View full review »We evaluated Nagios. We preferred Zabbix for the easy to use GUI and because it is 100% Open Source.
View full review »We evaluated Nagios.
View full review »Of course, we compared it with similar tools like Nagios, Zenoss, PRTG and OP Manager , and we chose it based on the benefits
View full review »SolarWinds. Nice product, but our particular project was more in line with the Linux, PostgreSQL, and the Open Source philosophy.
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Zabbix
March 2024
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