Zabbix Other Solutions Considered

ASM Naushad Alam - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We also have been using WhatsUp Gold for ten years. Zappix is a Linux solution and WhatsUp Gold is a Windows solution. 

We have a basic license for WhatsUp Gold and have purchased upgrades. In our country, there is no local expert tied with the OEM. The support team that is provided is not acceptable to us. 

The solution, SolarWinds, and WhatsUp Gold are good for monitoring servers but lack the functionality to find problems or root causes for any system, application, or service. 

ThousandEyes and AppDynamics find actual problems with networks, applications, or services. We are looking more at these products because our goal is to find all loopholes. 

For example, the solution or WhatsUp Gold might identify a packet loss. But ThousandEyes or AppDynamics will drill to the highest problem such as the HTML or a Cisco network problem. This approach is much more interesting. 

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NR
Information Security Officer at Kenmare Resources Mauritius

I have evaluated PRTG and SolarWinds.

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WC
CTO at Conscia

We looked at Zoom, however, we never ended up using it. 

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FN
CEO/Founder at Zen Networks

We evaluated different solutions in 2012 and  2017. We favor open-source solutions or open-core solutions that support open-source models. These open-core solutions are not open source, but they have an open model. They come with plugins. Such solutions are the best because they offer flexibility, and you can add your own monitoring on top of them. You can add your own plugins and extend a solution beyond its original capabilities. A proprietary solution such as SolarWinds is not that flexible because it is closed. You have to find a suitable plugin or module, but you can't really develop something on top of it. There is an SDK, but it is really hard to use. I've never rarely seen it used.

Zabbix is a solution we offer to answer some of the main customer monitoring requirements . The solution that we go for depends on the environment in which it will be used. We select one of these depending on a customer's environment and prerequisites. We see whether a customer's environment is really rich, and how many customized and standard applications a customer has. Zabbix also has more integrations with on-prem infrastructure and cloud solutions.

In comparison with Nagios and alike solutions, Zabbix is less fragmented providing better integrated components. They also invested in the last years quite a lot of development efforts to build new custom integrations.

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Faustine Chisasa - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at TZ Telecom Ltd.

We had to evaluate several options including SolarWinds NPM, PRTG, OpenNMS, Cacti, Nagios, and Zenoss Core. We used Huawei U2000, Cisco Prime and PRTG for some devices before we switched to Zabbix.

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D6B8 - PeerSpot reviewer
District Technology at INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

Nagios, Prometheus, Check_MK, Adagios, Icinga 2, Zenoss, PRTG, and Cacti.

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Cesar Danecke - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Supervisor at HORSCH BRASIL

I had very good references for Zabbix, but I did have a look at Pandora FMS and Nagios.

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DC
Co-Founder at Nobius IT

Nagios - too much development effort to maintain and configure.

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BS
Sr. Linux Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated SCOM.

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AM
Engineering manager at BGH Tech Partner

We have some clients that have WhatsUp Gold but a few say they are oriented specifically for IT data centers, but that's not the orientation of our project. Some clients ask for WhatsUp Gold but most of the applications are not near to our needs. Some people are using Zabbix and recommend Zabbix. 

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FA
IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier

I have not tested any other solutions. I looked at most of the other products, but we have to pay for them. 

To resolve a fixed problem, I would have asked the management to purchase the product, which would take time. Instead, I read the review and installed Zabbix directly to resolve my connection issue.

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VS
Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We have evaluated other solutions. 

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it_user901191 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our choices were Geneos, Nagios, Zabbix, Centreon, and Cacti. We chose Zabbix because we did a proof of concept, and Zabbix was the best. It had the richest functions, and it was free.

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VT
Support Team and Services at konverge technologies pvt ltd

We have not weighed other options like SolarWinds or ManageEngine. This is the first one we have tried. It is somewhat early for me to say what Zabbix's advantages are relative to others.

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it_user82719 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Yes. Nagios: This product it's the de-facto for open source network monitoring. System Center Operations Manager: The monitoring solution of Microsoft.

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it_user8784 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In our company we are always following the latest trends on the market so we try to follow them all as much as needed. Our preference goes mostly out to Zabbix of course. View full review »
RR
Principal Technical Consultant at CIBER

We checked the above mentioned options. Zabbix came out as a winner. Simple, good web application, no need for fat clients which makes maintenance simpler. Zabbix does not have the nicest GUI, compared with some above but it is certainly acceptable, especially when pricing is taking into account. Especially with the postgres database in combination with the timescaleDB options is has an excellent performance. It has a clean database design and handling.

If state of the art reporting is important, integrate with grafana. It can be done via the api and directly on the zabbix database.

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it_user685347 - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I had the option to stay with Nagios or switch to Zabbix. I switched.

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Tchidat Linda - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer of Telecommunication at Gold Telecom

Before choosing Zabbix, we evaluated Nagios but we were not comfortable with notifications messages syntax and configurations.

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it_user200937 - PeerSpot reviewer
System & Network Engineer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We looked at other solutions; stay with Centreon's newer version.

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it_user90867 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Of course. We need to check other oprions all the time. Some software we evaluated: Nagios, Zenoos, HypericHQ, PandoraFMS, BigBrother/Quest. View full review »
Tchidat Linda - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer of Telecommunication at Gold Telecom

When I was looking for the best solution for our monitoring needs, before choosing Zabbix, i had evaluated other tools options like Nagios.

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it_user235905 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of computer network and telecommunications division at a financial services firm

No, I did not evaluate other options before choosing this product.

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HJ
IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I checked Nagios, but I didn’t seriously evaluate it.

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it_user137115 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
it_user301455 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Solutions Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

We evaluated many products such as HPE SiteScope, Nagios etc.

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it_user701040 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We evaluated Nagios. We preferred Zabbix for the easy to use GUI and because it is 100% Open Source.

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it_user354798 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting System Engineer at ENEA

We evaluated Nagios.

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it_user1000593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Specialist at SON Corporate Group

Of course, we compared it with similar tools like Nagios, Zenoss, PRTG and OP Manager , and we chose it based on the benefits

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it_user476439 - PeerSpot reviewer
Gerente de Informática at a tech services company
it_user656028 - PeerSpot reviewer
PostgreSQL Database Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

SolarWinds. Nice product, but our particular project was more in line with the Linux, PostgreSQL, and the Open Source philosophy.

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