Netreo vs Zabbix comparison

"The technical support team at Netreo is pretty good."

"The most valuable aspect is it's very robust; it has a lot of features and it also integrates with a lot of the Cisco hardware around it, such as Smartboards and video conferencing units, making it a really robust and complete solution."

"By using the solution, we moved from a reactionary approach to a proactive evaluation of our equipment/systems."

"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."

"It can send messages to our ticketing system."

"The basic setup is very easy."

"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."

"The most valuable thing about the Zabbix product is that it was easy to install and manage."

"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."

"The scalability of Netreo is lacking."

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

"It's open-source software, and due to that, they really don't have legacy service monitorings like APM, or build-on capabilities, and the pure part of the transaction-related data."

"In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually."

"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."

"The reports are not great and should be improved."

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

"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."

"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."

"I use the tool's free version."

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

"The solution is open source so is free."

"Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."

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

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"There are no licenses."

"It is open source. If you want to have a subscription or official support, you can pay for it. They have different plans, which are not that expensive. The plans are based on per monitoring server, not per monitored equipment. So, it is not at all expensive, and you can also live without the support if you want a cheaper option."