"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"It lets us know whether devices are getting out of date and tracked warranties. Spiceworks also gave me visibility in terms of what software was installed on each device and its status."
"It shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know up front."
"The most valuable feature is monitoring."
"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 most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"The flexibility of this solution is amazing."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"Like other common Linux distributions, some of the most valuable features of this solution are the ease of use and deployment. It's simple and has a lot of packages and a lot of software."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"The documentation could be improved."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API."
"Its UI should be improved. They did some improvements in version 5, but it could benefit from some more work. Its integrations should also be improved. They've been active for one year, and they seem to have noticed that. It has new integrations, but it could benefit from more integrations. As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"The server monitoring could be better."
Spiceworks is ranked 36th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 4 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 49 reviews. Spiceworks is rated 6.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Has good policy enforcement but the network mapping could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". Spiceworks is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, JIRA Service Management, Lansweeper, ServiceNow and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Centreon, Nagios Core, Splunk and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. See our Spiceworks vs. Zabbix report.
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