We performed a comparison between VMware Aria Operations for Applications and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"No issues with stability."
"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."
"Zabbix helps to save time."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."
"The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"Improvement is needed as per customer requirements."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
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VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked 34th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. VMware Aria Operations for Applications is rated 7.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Applications writes "Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". VMware Aria Operations for Applications is most compared with Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog, AppDynamics and Prometheus, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our VMware Aria Operations for Applications vs. Zabbix report.
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