We compared Zabbix and Auvik across several parameters based on our user's reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Initial Setup: Zabbix and Auvik reviewers indicate that the duration required for deployment, setup, and implementation can vary. While some users spent three months on deployment and a week on setup for both products, others mentioned spending a week for both phases.
Valuable Features: Zabbix offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities, customizable alerts, and extensive reporting options. Auvik excels at network visibility, efficient monitoring, intuitive interface, automation capabilities, and detailed reporting.
Room For Improvement: Zabbix could improve its user interface, documentation, and performance. Auvik could enhance its performance and user experience.
Cost: Zabbix has no licensing costs. Auvik has minimal setup costs and straightforward licensing. Users appreciate Auvik's transparent and flexible pricing plans.
ROI: Zabbix has shown positive outcomes and benefits, while Auvik has delivered increased efficiency, improved visibility, and enhanced troubleshooting.
Customer Service: Zabbix's customer service and support have been praised for their promptness, effectiveness, and expertise. Auvik's customer service is commended for its knowledgeable, friendly staff and willingness to go above and beyond.
Reviewers prefer Zabbix over Auvik due to its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, customizable alerting system, and extensive reporting options. While Auvik offers comprehensive network visibility and an intuitive user interface, Zabbix stands out with its customizable alerts and extensive reporting options.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Automatic network mapping, alerting functionalities, and TrafficInsights are valuable."
"The alerting is fantastic; if something goes offline, we're notified right away. It gives us a lot of peace of mind knowing the solution will alert us to issues automatically 24/7."
"I like the way everything can be integrated. Auvik uses SMNP and various protocols to ensure we can monitor any device on the network."
"The visibility that it provides is probably the most valuable feature because we need to know what our sites look like. Understanding what our sites look like and knowing about what kind of network gear or network equipment these sites are running is very important for us. Previously, we didn't have visibility into everything."
"I have found Auvik extremely stable. They do a lot of scheduled maintenance, but it's almost always on the weekends, so it doesn't impact us."
"We like the alerts, the network mapping, and the backup of configurations."
"The most valuable feature of Auvik is its ability to drill down and identify unusual activity on the network, such as unauthorized devices connecting to our Wi-Fi."
"The network discovery feature allows us to put in a subnet and have the software automatically detect all devices connected to that subnet."
"Zabbix is scalable."
"Zabbix helps to save time."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The initial setup was very quick. The first time it was long because I didn't know it yet. I was only using Windows. The first time was very difficult because of the operating system."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"There is less computing power needed for scaling."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The dashboard needs to be more intuitive."
"When it comes to monitoring, Auvik provides a single integrated platform, but I feel it could do more things. If it could facilitate device upgrades, that would be great."
"The pricing model could also be improved, as the unlimited selection isn't unlimited. The billing work on the build devices and components, and I've tried to set up the solution in a few different configurations, resulting in multiple build devices each time. Therefore, I question the cost-effectiveness for a business of our size."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting aspect."
"There have been times when our SNMP community strings were incorrect or weren't updated for whatever reason, and Auvik kept trying to scan them. Changing it was a pain, and there wasn't a way to extract that from Auvik. I understand there are valid security reasons why we wouldn't want to do that sometimes. In those situations, we had to recreate those community strings and reapply them to various devices."
"Getting remotely connected to managed devices could be a little bit smoother. Sometimes, it's a little bit cumbersome trying to do that. If they could streamline the facilitating of remote connections to network devices, that would be an improvement."
"I want to see improvements to the interface, as it's data-heavy and challenging to navigate. This makes it harder to delegate and have junior staff look around and figure out the solution. A more straightforward interface would be a welcome improvement, whether by making it cleaner or more intuitive."
"A room for improvement would be integration with our help desk system."
"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."
"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."
"The user interface could be better."
"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."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."
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Auvik Network Management (ANM) is ranked 4th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 131 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Auvik Network Management (ANM) is rated 8.8, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Auvik Network Management (ANM) writes "Enables us to get on top of issues before they become an outage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Auvik Network Management (ANM) is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, LogicMonitor, Meraki Dashboard, SolarWinds NPM and Domotz, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core. See our Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs. Zabbix report.
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