WhatsUp Gold vs. Zabbix Comparison

WhatsUp Gold

Zabbix

WhatsUp Gold

Read 11 WhatsUp Gold reviews.

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Zabbix

Read 23 Zabbix reviews.

44,721 views|32,354 comparisons

Most Helpful Review

Anwar AL_Omari

IT Manager at Saba Islamic Bnak

Good at monitoring the network and keeps us up to date on the status of internal devices

It has been used for internal network monitoring but now we need to extend our capabilities and it does not appear to have this solution.

D6B8

District Technology at a educational organization

Being able to monitor almost any device in one location is extremely convenient

Before we didn't really have a centrally managed monitoring solution, so adding this product has been a blessing as we are able to actively monitor... Read more »

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Pros
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature.""It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature.""The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources.""We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down.""The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface.""This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices.""I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well.""The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health." More WhatsUp Gold Pros »	"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage.""The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches.""The implementation process is very straightforward.""The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring.""The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast""The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part.""Zabbix is both stable and scalable.""The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies." More Zabbix Pros »
Cons
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring.""Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices.""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.""The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product.""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.""Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring.""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.""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." More WhatsUp Gold Cons »	"The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance.""The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have.""The server monitoring could be better.""If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice.""The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities.""For us, the initial setup was complex""The documentation could be improved.""Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement." More Zabbix Cons »

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is reasonable compared to other products.""I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees.""The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive.""The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products.""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."

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"I was using the free, Community Edition.""We purchased Zabbix for a good price, including support""We are using the free, open-source version.""It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge.""This solution is completely open-source, so it is quite affordable.""Zabbix is open-source so if one wishes to implement it in-house, they must have qualified professionals to set up and optimize databases, Linux/Unix OS, PHP, Apache, and depending on what is monitored, a full-stack network and systems administrator may be needed.""Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."

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11th out of 84 in IT Infrastructure Monitoring Views 4,667 Comparisons 3,778 Reviews 11 Average Words per Review 516 Rating 7.8	1st out of 84 in IT Infrastructure Monitoring Views 44,721 Comparisons 32,354 Reviews 22 Average Words per Review 479 Rating 8.1
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Overview
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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Sample Customers
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
Top Industries
REVIEWERS Government33% Financial Services Firm22% Non Profit11% Energy/Utilities Company11% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company23% Comms Service Provider18% Government14% Manufacturing Company5%	REVIEWERS Computer Software Company21% Comms Service Provider16% Financial Services Firm11% Retailer11% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company29% Comms Service Provider26% Media Company5% Government5%
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REVIEWERS Small Business43% Midsize Enterprise21% Large Enterprise36%	REVIEWERS Small Business51% Midsize Enterprise20% Large Enterprise29% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business19% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise62%

WhatsUp Gold is ranked 11th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 11 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 23 reviews. WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8, while Zabbix is rated 8.0. 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 "Fabulous flexibility - supporting a vast variety of data sources including IoT protocols. Very stable and well supported. Scalable to many thousands of values per second". WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor, Splunk, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Splunk, Nagios Core, SolarWinds NPM and Pandora FMS. See our WhatsUp Gold vs. Zabbix report.

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