"The dashboard itself is very simplified and easy to navigate."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and technically very complete. I can configure, do advanced troubleshooting in the dashboard, and reboot access points remotely."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"It is very easy to manage. It has good security, and it is working well with our firewall."
"I like being able to use proxy servers for different locations. The agents are pretty cool. They're easy to roll out. The standard out-of-the-box templates are also pretty easy to use. The integration with other learning products is also good. I have, in the past, used Slack, but we've integrated it with Microsoft Teams. We also use it for SMS with a service called Redcoat. It is very flexible. It does what I need it to do, and my manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything. We are nearing 4,000 hosts inside Zabbix, and we've got another 6,000 access points to add to it. We've thrown everything at it, and it has managed to keep going. I am very impressed with the tool, and I'd shake their hand very hard if I got to say the compliments to the Zabbix team. They keep improving it and doing refreshes, which is one good thing about it. There is also online information as well as books that you can purchase if you're willing to read enough. There is a lot to pick up, but it is a pretty complete solution."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."
"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."
"The price could be lower because the license for access points is expensive."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"What needs improvement in Meraki Dashboard is its configuration. It'll also be better if the tool has more functionality, and that is what I'd like to see in its next release."
"Price could be reduced."
"There is a bit of a problem when you try to log in and you don't have a fixed IP address. If you're granting access, you need to log in by using the IP address. If your administrator's IP address is not a fixed IP address and it has changed, you might need to update the changed IP address in the interface. For this, you need to log in to the interface to update the IP address. This issue might not have so much to do with Meraki interface."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult."
"It's a very complex system. Customers have told me that sometimes there are lots of advanced features that are available and that you can change in the dashboard, but sometimes it's very hard to know what they are."
"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."
"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 13 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 50 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 9.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Centralized dashboard management for all devices on your network that is easy-to-use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with ThousandEyes, PRTG Network Monitor, SolarWinds NPM, Auvik and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Centreon, Nagios Core and Splunk. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. Zabbix report.
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