Tintri Global Center [EOL] vs Zabbix comparison

"The Tintri product line as a whole has freed up a lot of resources from constant administration of legacy enterprise storage."

"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."

"If you are serious about your infrastructure then you have to know what is going on, and with Zabbix we know when servers are using too much CPU, memory, disk IO, etc., and besides getting notified when something goes wrong, we are also now aware of how well our infrastructure scales, something that can save us money and frustrations."

"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 flexibility of taking monitoring data from such a wide variety of platforms - beyond traditional IT - makes Zabbix a highly flexible solution."

"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."

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

"It works well for my business."

"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."

"A better Tintri would be a "cheaper" one to get things started again."

"My advice for anybody who is implementing Zabbix is to seek the help of somebody who has actually done it before; otherwise, it's not worth their time."

"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."

"It hasn't really been that stable, but I think that has a lot to do with the specs. It could be more stable."

"I have experienced stability issues approximately five or ten times."

"Sometimes, the documentation is a little bit written in Estonia – a country in Europe. The language barrier and translation to English can sometimes make it difficult to understand what they're trying to get at. It's just a language thing."

"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 potential and customization is a little difficult because you have to learn scripts."

"In the next release, I'm hoping for features targeted towards larger users with more customizable options. Despite this, I think pre-canned reports that can be used straight out of the box would be beneficial rather than having to configure each report individually. Additionally, a deeper dive into software configurations on the machines would be useful, although I understand there may be challenges in implementing this due to scripting requirements. More documentation would also be appreciated."

"For pricing, it's free. We don't pay anything for it. They open-source the code, and people pay for support."

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

"It's free software released under the GNU/GPL license."

"We are using the free, open-source version."

"There is no license but we need to pay for support."

"Its licensing is fair. It seems to be much cheaper than others."

"It is free, which allows us to reduce costs."

"Zabbix is an open-source tool, and it's free to use."