We performed a comparison between ThousandEyes and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"The basic setup is very easy."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."
"The solution is stable."
"Zabbix is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"It's an expensive solution."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
"There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc."
"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."
"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."
ThousandEyes is ranked 21st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 11 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. ThousandEyes is rated 8.4, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Dynatrace, Accedian Skylight, SolarWinds NPM and Kentik, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core. See our ThousandEyes vs. Zabbix report.
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