VMware Aria Operations for Applications vs Zabbix comparison

"People are very pleased with the implementation."

"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."

"Scalability for VMware Aria Operations for Applications is easy to implement and manage."

"The stability of Aria Operations for Applications has improved significantly over the years."

"We haven't had any issues with stability."

"Wavefront gives us the complexity we need, instead of spending time coming up with a nice dashboard from some other means, or just creating and coding our own app."

"Using Wavefront, we have been able to reduce the complexity of our pipeline."

"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."

"The pricing of the product is reasonable."

"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."

"I recommend this solution."

"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."

"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."

"Zabbix has high scalability. I would rate it a nine out of ten."

"This resulted in a Operations team with lower levels of stress, more time to work on important projects and client satisfaction by lowering the number of problems visible by the client."

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

"It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality."

"The return on investment is best suited for organizations that do not have the resources for a dedicated VM environment team. However, the cost of the product doesn't show significant benefits."

"They just need more capability. A few areas still need more enhancements in the technology capability space."

"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."

"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."

"VMware technical support has declined since the Broadcom acquisition. Previously, they were more focused on issue resolution, but now they prioritize licensing verification before providing support."

"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."

"The support from VMware is not very helpful. This is because you always receive many questions from the support service but few actual solutions."

"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."

"If anything could be improved, it would be some of the terminology that is used in the documentation."

"The documentation could be improved."

"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."

"Reporting is weak, if you want something better you must write your own SQL scripts."

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

"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."

"I really don't like it as it generates a lot of false information."

"The licensing costs are very high, particularly when you consider that we have to purchase a level 1 license for every integration, such as the load balancer, HAProxy, and the MSSP. And if you want to use vSAN, that's another license. Then, of course, Tanzu Observability has its own separate license."

"I would rate the pricing as three out of five."

"I don't have the details. In our case, there is a mixture in place. We have production usage, and we are also doing training for VMware. So, we also have a training instance. It is worth the money you would spend on it. That's because if you were to build all of this yourself by using some of the open source tools, then you would need a lot of time."

"Different locations require different setups. In your terms, around 300 to around 400K USD."

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

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"It is reasonable."

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

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

"It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation."

"We pay the subscription for support by year."

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