Versa Director vs Zabbix comparison

"Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management."

"The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics."

"The most valuable functionality is some of the policy pieces that are quite useful."

"Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management."

"The initial setup was not complex."

"The implementation process is very straightforward."

"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."

"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."

"Zabbix is scalable."

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

"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."

"Our customers also like that they don't have to use multiple modules. Micro Focus and major vendors typically require you to buy several modules and plugins. Our customers do not like that. We offer them a single product for all their monitoring needs."

"It requires some simplification."

"What needs improvement in Versa Director is maturity because, from an operating point of view, it's not mature enough. You'll still need to do a lot of research on Versa Director, so if it could mature faster, that would be very good."

"Versa Director's deployment process is not the best."

"Versa could be more AI-oriented."

"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."

"Documentation terminology could be improved."

"There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast."

"The performance reporting could be improved."

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

"The server monitoring could be better."

"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."

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

"Having to buy separate licenses for the on-prem SD-WAN hardware and SSL VPN software makes Versa Director very costly compared to other solutions like Fortinet and Cisco."

"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."

"The tool's licensing is good."

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

"I use the tool's free version."

"The solution is open source so is free."

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

"This solution is open-source and free to use."

"We’re using the free version, which covers all our current needs."