NetWitness Platform vs Zabbix comparison

The compared NetWitness and Zabbix solutions aren't in the same category. NetWitness is ranked #25 in LM , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 0.4% mindshare in the category. Zabbix is ranked #1 in NMS , with an average rating of 8.4, and holds a 11.1% mindshare. Additionally, 74% of NetWitness users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Zabbix users who would recommend it.

NetWitness Platform

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74% willing to recommend

Zabbix

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95% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

NetWitness Platform

Average Rating

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (25th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (24th)

Zabbix

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

103

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (10th), Network Monitoring Software (1st), Server Monitoring (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. NetWitness Platform is designed for Log Management and holds a mindshare of 0.4%, down 0.5% compared to last year.
Zabbix, on the other hand, focuses on Network Monitoring Software, holds 11.1% mindshare, down 12.4% since last year.

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MdZaman

IT manager at a agriculture with 10,001+ employees

Oct 22, 2021

Really scalable for enterprise customers

The solution should have more integration capabilities with different platforms. The API is nearly open and scalable, so the solution can integrate with many platforms. The solution has more than 200 log sources in the scalability to support, but this is its limit. Installation is pretty easy. However, there are a couple of modules involved, so it is not as easy as it could be. We are talking about a distributed module, not a single-module type. This is what makes things a bit complex, instead of easier. I rate it as a seven out of ten on its installation and configuration capabilities.

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ASM Naushad Alam

Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 16, 2022

Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes

Our company is a financial organization and we use the solution to check connectivity, CPU utilization, and hard disk utilization for all of our servers. We monitor networks to learn traffic conditions. We use threshold features to compare servers or routers and find each server's size before it…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."

"The most valuable feature is the correlation. It can report in real-time and monitor the management."

"The most valuable features are the packet inspection and the automated incident response."

"NetWitness Platform is valuable for creating rules that the solution must detect."

"What we are mainly using are the RSA concentrator, RSA Decoder, Archiver, Broker, and Log Decoder."

"Possibility to investigate incidents based on logs and raw packets, such as extracting files sent over the network"

"The packet capture aspect of it is a valuable feature because it is quite different from a traditional SIEM solution that only carries out investigations based on captured logs."

"The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult."

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"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."

"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."

"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."

"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."

"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."

"Zabbix is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."

"The product is very stable."

"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."

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Cons

"Sometimes, it gives me static when integrating Windows-based systems. It should produce a precise log of sorts as to where the problem is. For example, a few days ago because of the McAfee application firewall, I couldn't get access to the particular Windows machine. So, my team and I had to figure out by ourselves that there was a virus responsible for the obstacle. This solution should trigger a meaningful log or message indicating the reason the user or implementer can't get into the machine."

"It should have a monitoring feature. It would help us analyze the current state of attacks faster from a single platform."

"They should implement algorithms to digest that data and produce additional, more advanced reporting, alerting and support of internal security teams."

"An area for improvement would be better automation and more inbuilt use cases."

"There is no support for this product in this country, so problems have to be resolved through global technical teams."

"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."

"The initial setup is very complex and should be simplified."

"I'd like to see improvement in its ease of use. It's basically unusable. It's overly complex."

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"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."

"Documentation terminology could be improved."

"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."

"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."

"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."

"The documentation could be improved."

"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."

"The event correlation could be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The new pricing and licensing mechanisms are fair. I would advise always to get the full solution (i.e., not only Logs)."

"We have a perpetual license, so the total cost of ownership is not very expensive. It's a good investment."

"RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets do not have a subscription model, it's a one-time purchase. There is only a perpetual license."

"Our license is for one year."

"In comparison to other SIEM solutions such as Splunk, NetWitness is less costly."

"Compared to the competition, the is price is not that high."

"There is a licensing fee and the customer can choose whether he wishes this to be subscription-based or perpetual."

"The tool is very expensive, so I rate the pricing a ten out of ten. The solution has an annual subscription."

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"It is open source. If you want to have a subscription or official support, you can pay for it. They have different plans, which are not that expensive. The plans are based on per monitoring server, not per monitored equipment. So, it is not at all expensive, and you can also live without the support if you want a cheaper option."

"Its licensing is fair. It seems to be much cheaper than others."

"It is free, which allows us to reduce costs."

"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."

"We purchased Zabbix for a good price, including support"

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"This solution is completely open-source, so it is quite affordable."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

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it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

17%

Government

Insurance Company

Educational Organization

39%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NetWitness Platform?

The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetWitness Platform?

The product price was reasonable for my region and the market.

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What needs improvement with NetWitness Platform?

From an improvement perspective, the NetWitness Platform needs to release new features and improve in areas like log correlation. The tool needs to have easier integrations with the cloud. Building...

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What do you like most about Zabbix?

The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?

I use the tool's free version.

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What needs improvement with Zabbix?

I'm using the free version of Zabbix, and I'd like to see more customization options, especially for setting trigger thresholds.

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Overview

NetWitness Platform is an evolved SIEM and threat detection and response solution that functions as a single, unified platform for ALL your security data. It features an advanced analyst workbench for triaging alerts and incidents, and it orchestrates security operations programs end to end. In short: NetWitness Platform is all you need to run an intelligent SOC.

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software that provides real-time monitoring and alerting for servers, networks, applications, and services.

It offers a wide range of features including data collection, visualization, and reporting.

With its user-friendly interface and customizable dashboards, Zabbix helps organizations ensure the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure.

Sample Customers

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1. IBM 2. Dell 3. Cisco 4. HP 5. Oracle 6. Microsoft 7. Amazon 8. Google 9. Facebook 10. Twitter 11. LinkedIn 12. Netflix 13. Adobe 14. VMware 15. Salesforce 16. SAP 17. Intel 18. AT&T 19. Verizon 20. T-Mobile 21. Vodafone 22. Ericsson 23. Nokia 24. Siemens 25. General Electric 26. Honeywell 27. Philips 28. Sony 29. Samsung 30. LG 31. Panasonic 32. Toshiba

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