Alluvio AppResponse vs Zabbix comparison

"The most valuable feature is performance monitoring."

"You need a packet capture device to perform any type of network monitoring. It helps ensure that network overloads don't happen with alerts allowing for proactive decisions."

"Ability to see end to end user, application, server, and network response time and throughput data."

"Riverbed's product is a superb product."

"The most valuable feature of Alluvio AppResponse is the actual response time for measuring performance."

"I have found the AppResponse, which is a packet capture solution, very good. It gives you the ability to drill down back in time. You've got all the packets there. You can troubleshoot it later, not immediately. It's very interesting."

"AppResponse is a total solution that gives you end-to-end visibility into applications at all levels, from Layer 1 to Layer 7. We can trace all those sections: physical, IP, transport, presentation, application, etc. It gives us the full picture."

"We really like the scalability capabilities."

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

"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."

"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."

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

"Zabbix is good for discovery."

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

"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."

"I use the solution to provide a perfect environment for remote connectivity with my clients."

"The recent changes in corporate structure may have caused some decrease in support quality."

"If Alluvio AppResponse reduces its cost, it will be more beneficial for customers to monitor their application and network performance."

"The initial setup is straightforward, but you have to know a little about the product. It's not for everybody to just plug and play. If you know how the solution is implemented then it is straightforward."

"The reporting models need improvement as most of the time, we have to customize the reports manually."

"They need to better integrate with products and solutions from different vendors."

"Alluvio AppResponse should improve its ability to expand across multiple operating systems."

"Need to bring back the NetFlow module for AppResponse."

"Technical support needs to be more responsive."

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

"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."

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

"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."

"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."

"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."

"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."

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

"The price is a little bit high, especially because we have to pay an import tax."

"The licensing model is expensive compared to its competitors, but the service it gives to your business, and the data quality, means that it's worth it."

"It is costly for small and medium businesses."

"The solution is no more expensive than other products."

"It is reasonable."

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

"I use the tool's free version."

"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."

"It's free software released under the GNU/GPL license."

"I was using the free, Community Edition."

"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."

"We use the open-source version of Zabbix."