Lenovo XClarity Controller vs Zabbix comparison

"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to provide insights into server status and alerts."

"The most valuable feature of Lenovo XClarity is the ease of use because of the interface browser that is highly compatible and it has mobile web management."

"The remote management capability was also good."

"The Lenovo configuration tool helps us with the computation of the RAID Controller and the installation of the operating system."

"I would rate Lenovo XClarity Controller ten out of ten."

"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."

"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."

"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."

"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."

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

"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."

"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."

"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."

"Sometimes we do not receive the complaint from the Controller. However, software issues are managed and processed with the help of the Lenovo technical team, and they sort them out."

"They could enable notifications on emails and phones regarding control panel information."

"Sometimes we do not receive the complaint from the Controller."

"Lenovo XClarity can improve the dashboard integration. For example, graphs could be better. Additionally, more integration with other vendors is needed. For example, VMware has integration with a lot of vendors."

"It worked very slowly. It was not well on performance."

"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."

"The only issue I can note is that it's Linux-based, and Linux documentation is not the best."

"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."

"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."

"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."

"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation."

"It’s free of cost."

"Zabbix and Grafana are both open source products, we only needed to go to their website and download the application and we began to use them. The solutions are free."

"There are no licenses."

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"The product is an open source and free solution."