SolarWinds ipMonitor vs Zabbix comparison

"The most valuable feature is the availability of end devices."

"IPAM is used for IP address reservation and tracking, helping us easily identify live IP addresses."

"IPAM is used for IP address reservation and tracking, helping us easily identify live IP addresses."

"The most valuable function for me is the auto-discovery of interfaces in devices. When you integrate devices into the tool, it automatically finds the interfaces, which is very helpful for my job. Integration and configuration run smoothly in my experience with Juniper and Aruba devices."

"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."

"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."

"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."

"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."

"The solution allows for good integration with other products."

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

"It's a flexible solution."

"The licensing cost is high compared to open source tools."

"The licensing cost is high compared to open source tools."

"The solution does not include enough features and has some performance issues."

"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."

"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."

"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."

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

"In the next release, I'm hoping for features targeted towards larger users with more customizable options. Despite this, I think pre-canned reports that can be used straight out of the box would be beneficial rather than having to configure each report individually. Additionally, a deeper dive into software configurations on the machines would be useful, although I understand there may be challenges in implementing this due to scripting requirements. More documentation would also be appreciated."

"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."

"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."

"Zabbix can use better documentation and support for troubleshooting."

"The solution is a bit expensive because the annual license does not include new features that are priced as add-ons."

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

"We pay the subscription for support by year."

"If you have 20,000 hosts, the support costs around €95,000 for a year."

"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."

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

"We were searching for an open source solution and Zabbix fit the bill because it is free and open source under the GPL license."

"It’s free of cost."

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."