We performed a comparison between vRealize Network Insight 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"I like being able to see the flows coming in and out of the product. In terms of monitoring network flows, we use it to verify whether or not different servers/applications should be communicating with each other."
"The most valuable feature for us is that insight into what our network is really doing - it's a fairly complex network. Not having to go through thousands of lines of network configuration to find firewall ports that were open or closed, for various ports, was very valuable. It went out and found everything we need very quickly."
"It has definitely helped us to meet compliance rules by assuring that all traffic is going to where it's supposed to go. It can be used to report that you are in compliance, as well as helping you get into compliance."
"The most valuable features are the packet trace flow and that the view of the whole environment is deep."
"The most valuable feature is being able to easily see the path that the VM traffic is taking, what ports are in use."
"What's valuable to us is the ability to get a view into the virtual space, which is something we haven't had before. Before, it was done by collecting from network endpoints and extrapolating into the virtual environment. Now it's coming directly from the virtual environment."
"The ability to use the natural language query and see the visualization is quickly intuitive, and it works very well."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"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."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"There is less computing power needed for scaling."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"The product is very stable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"I want to see more in terms of microsegmentation. As of now, I can see the rules, but they are not in a readable format that I can convert to microsegmentation and can fit into NSX Manager."
"Support could be much better."
"The product is slightly complex use, while still being user-friendly. It could use more training modules, as it is not a straightforward product."
"While it's not exactly a feature, what normally happens when we are trying to look at the VM flow portion is - although Network Insight does have options to integrate a few physical switches into it - we can't really get an end-to-end flow of the network. We might be using a few switches that are not supported by Network Insight. That is where they can improve, in the support for more physical switches and network devices."
"If it were more application-aware, more descriptive; if it were able to determine the application that is actually doing the communication, that would be easier. More application information: which user or account it's accessing, is it accessing this application, doing these calls, if it is accessing a script, what script is it accessing. Things like that would provide deeper analytics so I can track what's going on. It would not just be, "These people shouldn't be talking," but who is actually doing these calls."
"I'd like to see better support for being able to search the hardware NetFlow data. It ingests fairly well, but you can't tell, in a lot of cases, what source the data came from. I'd like to see more support for picking specific sources. That way you could really make a compelling use case. There are also some difficulties where it can't exactly trace the path between source and destination but if you hit the reverse flow on the same search it shows the entire path."
"The solution is very much viewer centric and it would be nice if it would transcend just the virtual infrastructure."
"I would like to see application identification. That would be cool."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
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vRealize Network Insight is ranked 23rd in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. vRealize Network Insight is rated 8.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of vRealize Network Insight writes "Provides deep analytical insights and makes migrations efficient with dependency mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". vRealize Network Insight is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT vSTREAM, AppNeta by Broadcom, VMware Aria Operations for Applications and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Zabbix vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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