Versa Director vs Zabbix comparison

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

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

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

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

"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."

"The best feature is that Zabbix can report everything, and everything in Zabbix is free."

"I use the solution to provide a perfect environment for remote connectivity with my clients."

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

"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."

"The pricing of the product is reasonable."

"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."

"The most valuable function for me is the auto-discovery of interfaces in devices. When you integrate devices into the tool, it automatically finds the interfaces, which is very helpful for my job. Integration and configuration run smoothly in my experience with Juniper and Aruba devices."

"Versa could be more AI-oriented."

"It requires some simplification."

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

"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."

"I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this."

"The only issue we have had with Zabbix is when we decided to make an update or upgrade."

"Look and feel."

"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."

"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."

"The stability 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."

"The server monitoring could be better."

"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."

"Zabbix is a free solution but the support contact costs money."

"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."

"If you have 20,000 hosts, the support costs around €95,000 for a year."

"We use the open-source version of Zabbix."

"It’s free of cost."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"It is reasonable."

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