Compare WhatsUp Gold vs. Zabbix
WhatsUp Gold is ranked 14th in Network Monitoring Software with 10 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 10 reviews. WhatsUp Gold is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "Great interface but has no end to end monitoring from a user perspective". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Reasonable network monitoring which works okay if you don't mind the glitches". WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Zabbix, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Icinga and SolarWinds NPM. See our WhatsUp Gold vs. Zabbix report.
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It is a central solution in terms of how to actually use it. It has a very easy dashboard. Everything is concise. We are able to create custom sensors. For different parts of the business, we have many products across many environments, and it works for everything. The fact that I can use custom MIB files to customize my sensors for the things that are not there as a default is a good feature. The most valuable feature is the ability to span multiple technologies and multiple vendors. We can see trends for a lot of different things, such as hard drive space and bandwidth usage. We can see and plan for the future by knowing, "We're sort of at 75% capacity now. In three months time, we know we're going to be up to 90%,so we need to plan ahead for it, getting upgrades booked in place." Since things like this take time and effort, it's handy to see trends into the future of where our company is going. The solution provides us with needed feedback on our IT infrastructure. It gives us really good quality of service when it comes to monitoring of available space and available resources. It allows us to preempt issues before they become a problem for the business. It is easy to use and intuitive, which is really important. It does what it says on the box by giving you a visual of the state of what is going on at any one time. It is pretty simple to use, which is always a good thing. It's been very reliable in updating us if any issues crop up. We use the remote probes a lot for our branch offices. Instead of deploying the full instance of PRTG, we'll put a remote probe out there. This simplifies the whole deployment for us. | The documentation is very good. The installation and configuration process are easy. The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health. I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well. This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices. The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface. We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down. The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources. | We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix. Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage. Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold. We use it to monitor and manage our servers. Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures. It can send messages to our ticketing system. It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system. We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes. |
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With custom sensors, there is a lot of work which needs to be done in the background, just for it to be tailor-made for the specific thing that we are actually monitoring. We take a lot of time with the custom sensors. I would like to see the customer sensor be more robust and a bit more varied. I have an issue with DFS, distributed file services... there isn't one by default. Taking into account the difference between DFS and DFSR as well would be great. The dashboarding definitely needs improvement. The only sort of limitation is the actual probes. So, if you don't have enough probes on there, you can over flip them and cause the WMI sensors and SNMP sensors to sort of overload. Sometimes, they might timeout for a minute, but they do come back. The desktop app is the one area where it do with some improvement. From a user's perspective, I would like to be able to get more out of the desktop app as opposed to where we are now with it. While the desktop app is good, they could slightly improve it. We would like it to be a single pane of glass. At the moment, you can only see certain portions of information. You have to scroll through to make it more granular. We want them to develop the desktop app to be more user-friendly. Once you start going above 5000 sensors, things do start to get a bit shaky. There are some best practice out there that you will need to adopt and be aware of. We would like more cloud native sensors for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc. A lot of businesses are moving in that direction, so having something where we can pull performance stats out of these cloud services would be great for us. | The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be. Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible. Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity. I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy. Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring. One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in. The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product. I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated. | I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box. The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance. I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this. Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition. I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes. |
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We used a product called SolarWinds in the past, and its cost was high. Whereas, PRTG came in at a third of SolarWind's cost. Cost was a factor when selecting this solution, but it just did everything we wanted it to do. Our licensing costs are 10,000 euros over three years. At the moment I'm only using 500 sensors. I pay yearly, so it's a cost that's easily swallowed. We have an unlimited perpetual license, so we just pay support costs and it can scale throughout the organization. We looked at PRTG and SolarWinds. From a cost side perspective, compared to PRTG, and from what you get back from it, PRTG was sort of a hands down the winner. While I am not the person who deals with pricing, I would say that we pay around 1000 pounds a year. It is about £4,500 for the first year, then about another 15 to 20 percent annually after that. So, we are looking at about £1000 running costs a year. When you think about how much an outage costs per minute, it's negligible. | There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive. Aside from the initial cost for the tool, you need to pay additionally for support. The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products. The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive. I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees. Pricing is reasonable compared to other products. | It is free, which allows us to reduce costs. It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation. |
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| PRTG | ||
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| Paessler AG | Ipswitch | Zabbix |
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| PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos. | Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold's a layer 2/3 discovery results in a detailed interactive map of your entire networked infrastructure. One affordable license lets you monitor any mix of networks, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, applications, traffic flows and configurations across Windows, LAMP and Java environments. It Manage networks, traffic, physical servers, VMs and applications with easy-to-use and customizable maps, dashboards and alerts. WhatsUp Gold streamlines workflows by letting you initiate management tasks directly from the interactive map. Additional Features include: Application Monitoring, Network Traffic Analysis, Configuration Management, Discovery & Network Monitoring, Cloud Monitoring, Virtual Environment Monitoring, Distributed Monitoring and Failover Manager. | Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices. Zabbix is Open Source and comes at no cost. |
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Get ahead of IT infrastructure issues With PRTG Network Monitor you can identify and solve potential issues before it affects anyone. Download a free 30-day trial today and experience the benefits of 24-hour IT Infrastructure Monitoring. | Learn more about WhatsUp Gold | Learn more about Zabbix |
Sample Customers | ||
| Jameson Bank, Sidnix, RungeICT, MedicalAnimal, Truck-lite, GamingGrids, The Covell Group, Forsythn County Schools, NetMass, Musgrove Park Hospital, Lanes Health, Columbia Southern University, Vodafone, Intrust Bank | Artoni Trasporti, Austin Independent School District, Banca Marche, Burke County North Carolina, Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine, Clayco, Community Integrated Care, Desca, Deutsche Bergbau, Flexi-Van, Gropper, Hamleys, Hammonds Furniture, Knowledge IT, Idras S.P.A., Sibeg, Swann Engineering, Trivium Lindenhof | Bodybuilding.com, LLC., ITtelligent Consulting Services,Eltele AS, Total Server Solutions, LLC., ChinaNetCloud |
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Comms Service Provider13% Financial Services Firm13% Construction Company9% Real Estate/Law Firm4% Software R&D Company35% Comms Service Provider14% Media Company6% Government5% | Government29% Financial Services Firm29% Non Tech Company14% Energy/Utilities Company14% Manufacturing Company20% Software R&D Company18% Government14% Comms Service Provider11% | Financial Services Firm18% University9% Energy/Utilities Company9% Software R&D Company9% Software R&D Company32% Comms Service Provider17% Media Company7% Financial Services Firm5% |
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Small Business30% Midsize Enterprise30% Large Enterprise39% Small Business25% Midsize Enterprise11% Large Enterprise63% | Small Business45% Midsize Enterprise18% Large Enterprise36% | Small Business41% Midsize Enterprise21% Large Enterprise38% Small Business18% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise64% |
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