We performed a comparison between Ixia Hawkeye and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Our customer was happiest with the price of this product."
"It empowers network administrators to access specialized and detailed views for specific tests, including video streaming and performance related to specific applications like video games."
"The most valuable feature is the deployment because it's very easy to deploy real flow through the network."
"The ease of setup is the most valuable aspect of this solution. It's easy to set up and run tests."
"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"The most valuable feature is monitoring."
"The solution is stable."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Ixia has one flaw, which is that they do not print the license code on the paper licenses that are shipped to the customers."
"You can't delete more than one thing at a time. It would be great to be able to highlight three out of five things and delete them, whether it's a test or an actual report."
"Improvements in network performance are essential."
"The customization of tests and even the results can be improved."
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
"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."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
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Ixia Hawkeye is ranked 53rd in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Ixia Hawkeye is rated 9.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Ixia Hawkeye writes "A valuable tool for optimizing network performance and security with comprehensive network monitoring capabilities, user-friendly interface, and flexibility for scripting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Ixia Hawkeye is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Ixia Hawkeye vs. Zabbix report.
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