NetBrain vs Zabbix comparison

"This product has good network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities."

"NetBrain is a very simple tool."

"A reliable, time-saving tool for providing accurate layer 2 and layer 3 network mappings."

"Enables maps to be drawn out."

"Chain management is a good feature. I don't get it on other solutions."

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

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

"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."

"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."

"The implementation process is very straightforward."

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

"It's the best solution. Great. I would rate the overall solution ten out of ten."

"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."

"Each device needs to be configured to allow NetBrain to poll for the information it needs, which can be very time-consuming for a large network."

"The IP interface brief isn't consistent."

"Support needs to improve for the installed product and some of the reporting could be more flexible to provide more complete cataloging."

"The solution could integrate more automation."

"It would be nice if the setup was a little simpler. Also, if the solution could provide more training materials for new people coming into our company so they can quickly learn how to use the functionalities."

"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."

"​I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes.​"

"The reporting is lacking because this is an open-source tool, and nowadays, management's expectation is that the reports should be of high quality and every information should be presented in a concise manner."

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

"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."

"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."

"Look and feel."

"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."

"The product is expensive, but less expensive than some of the competition and worth the price."

"Licensing is based on a per-device basis, which means that it can get very expensive if you have a large number of devices."

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

"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."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

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

"It is reasonable."

"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."

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

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