Lenovo XClarity Controller vs Zabbix comparison

"I would rate Lenovo XClarity Controller ten out of ten."

"The most valuable feature of Lenovo XClarity is the ease of use because of the interface browser that is highly compatible and it has mobile web management."

"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to provide insights into server status and alerts."

"The Lenovo configuration tool helps us with the computation of the RAID Controller and the installation of the operating system."

"The remote management capability was also good."

"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system.​"

"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."

"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."

"The basic setup is very easy."

"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."

"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."

"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."

"It's a flexible solution."

"They could enable notifications on emails and phones regarding control panel information."

"Lenovo XClarity can improve the dashboard integration. For example, graphs could be better. Additionally, more integration with other vendors is needed. For example, VMware has integration with a lot of vendors."

"It worked very slowly. It was not well on performance."

"Sometimes we do not receive the complaint from the Controller. However, software issues are managed and processed with the help of the Lenovo technical team, and they sort them out."

"Sometimes we do not receive the complaint from the Controller."

"The user interface could be better."

"The product could be more secure and more stable."

"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."

"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."

"There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast."

"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."

"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."

"Its UI needs to be improved a little bit more so that an end-user is also able to handle it. I can handle it, but others should also be able to handle it in a better way. It becomes complex when we are growing and need to add proxies. We need more scalability features and documentation for different use cases. A lot of articles are available, but they need to be in proper documentation. For example, when you have thousands of servers that have to be monitored in different regions of the world, there should be some kind of documentation to describe how you can create proxies and add them. Sometimes, when you are using the database, it can get overloaded. When the network is growing, the number of transactions becomes very high, and the database gets overloaded. There should be information about how to reduce the load on the MySQL database, which is what Zabbix is using. The market is growing a lot, and it should be enhanced for a lot more things. We are currently bringing enhancements at our end for different use cases. For example, when dockerization is going on, how can we check the logs inside the Dockers. We should also be able to monitor and check the number of logins and add features such as SSO login and two-factor authentication as a protocol. These are the security features and concerns that we have to deal with. Currently, we are developing modules to add features to Zabbix, but they should also work on these features."

"Zabbix and Grafana are both open source products, we only needed to go to their website and download the application and we began to use them. The solutions are free."

"For pricing, it's free. We don't pay anything for it. They open-source the code, and people pay for support."

"There is a license required for this solution and we pay annually for our license."

"There is no license but we need to pay for support."

"Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."

"It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."

"Zabbix is an open-source tool, and it's free to use."

"The product is an open source and free solution."