We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical."
"What I like about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it's useful for analyzing traffic. It also has an application visibility feature that lets you control applications."
"They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it."
"The program is scalable enough for our usage."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"With SolarWinds, we are now able to accurately gauge bandwidth consumption."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"The integration with other SolarWinds products is good."
"The implementation process is very straightforward."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"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 most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"The basic setup is very easy."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"Zabbix is scalable."
"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."
"It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts."
"They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature."
"Customer Support is quite complex."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky."
"I would like to see more training videos and additional material for learning how to use this solution."
"The solution needs better log management and log coordination with tools."
"What needs improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is performance because sometimes, my team struggles too much for the solution to perform correctly for a specific deployment in my organization. Having a more detailed view in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is another area for improvement, but that's more part of the protocol than the actual solution."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"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."
"Look and feel."
"It should be easy to modify the front end."
"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."
"The event correlation could be better."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 98 reviews. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM, Darktrace and ScienceLogic, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core. See our SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs. Zabbix report.
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