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.
"The most valuable features of BMC TrueSight Operations Management are the blackouts and event management."
"It is a stable solution."
"The event management part of TrueSight Operations Management, in my experience, is probably the best in the market. You have endless flexibility. You can build your own rules, you have the MRL language, and you can implement any kind of logic on the alerts. It may be correlation, abstraction, or executing something as a result of the alerts. You have almost the whole range of options available for event management using the available customization."
"The Event Management is outstanding; still is the most interesting part of the product."
"It is a very stable product."
"The solution provides visibility to our infrastructure, how it is, the resources we are monitoring, and quick updates when it has any problems. We have integrated it with ServiceNow to open instances."
"The most valuable features are the rich reports, high performance, and the look and feel of the WebEx webpage are very good."
"Valuable features include wide support for monitoring, strong event management, service management capability, baselining (analytics) and easy to integrate other tools with it."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."
"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."
"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 not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"I would like them to improve the deep-dive details, tracing, and data agents in this product. We have EUEM, an end-user experience monitoring appliance. This one's quicker than the current one, and reporting side and filtration side are very bad. There are many details we look at and explain what we receive information in the current one, but we cannot have historical data like we do with EUEM. We cannot have a powerful point to look for specific traffic from a specific application and a specific browser. We don't have it in the new one. The current BMC also needs to add the thing that control versions."
"Application performance management (APM) is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution that needs improvement. I"
"One of the things that the TrueSight environment is missing is some of the HA abilities. The data collection server called the ISM doesn't really have the HA functionality or workload balancing. It was missing from the previous product as well. It's missing redundancy."
"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."
"More modules for less popular applications and better documentation."
"We were somewhat limited in TrueSight due to some of the RBAC controls not quite being what we wanted as far as delegating out administrative privileges for implementation. But because we were able to turn requests around pretty well, that burden wasn't too heavy."
"The stability of BMC TrueSight Operations Management needs improvement. My organization's infrastructure is vast and implemented based on BMC recommendations, but the solution needs to be optimized for large-capacity infrastructure."
"The pricing could be better."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"Improvement is needed as per customer requirements."
"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."
"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."
"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 solution needs to add remote features."
"There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast."
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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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