Dell CloudIQ vs Zabbix comparison

"It's convenient because you can access it from a mobile device without needing a laptop."

"CloudIQ allows us to monitor our servers centrally, and we can receive notifications in case of issues, like a potential hard drive failure."

"I rate CloudIQ a ten out of ten."

"Has really nice roll-up dashboards."

"The dashboard is clear and user-friendly."

"Mobile application is the most valuable feature for us. We can monitor all the storages on our phones. It's really good."

"The dashboard is clear and user-friendly."

"CloudIQ allows us to monitor our servers centrally, and we can receive notifications in case of issues, like a potential hard drive failure."

"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."

"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."

"The flexibility of this solution is amazing."

"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."

"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."

"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."

"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."

"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."

"In terms of improvement, they should enhance the product range."

"It can improve the reporting facility to create custom reports or dashboards."

"The main limitation of CloudIQ is that it is intended to be used exclusively with Dell hardware."

"Supporting legacy systems is an area that can be improved."

"The reporting capabilities of this solution could be improved."

"Getting through support has become a difficult thing. Dell's support has degraded since they took over EMC. It's a bit difficult to use."

"It can improve the reporting facility to create custom reports or dashboards."

"Doesn't do well in terms of integrating with technologies other than Dell."

"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."

"The stability could be better."

"My company wanted to do an exercise command to access IT from Cameroon. They wanted to access an FSS to a second host with second equipment that was on another coast but it is not possible on Zabbix to do it. They want to directly access from the front-end of Zabbix to access a prompt in Zabbix to an access terminal. In the front-end, there is no way to do that. That would be an important improvement."

"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."

"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."

"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."

"One of the things we don't like is that Zabbix has a license structure with a price that is high compared to the competition. It's very high, for example, compared to something like Microsoft Teams."

"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."

"I believe it is a free product because we don't pay for it."

"The solution is more expensive than NetApp which offers file systems in various price ranges."

"We are using the free, open-source version."

"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."

"The solution is free. However, many open-sourced tools start out free but eventually start charging."

"The solution is free to use but they offer support as a paid service. If you can go read the manuals and do the fine-tuning based on your needs, you do not need to pay anything and you will have a full solution."

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

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

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