We performed a comparison between Ixia Hawkeye and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring 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."
"Our customer was happiest with the price of this product."
"It empowers network administrators to access specialized and detailed views for specific tests, including video streaming and performance related to specific applications like video games."
"The most valuable feature is the deployment because it's very easy to deploy real flow through the network."
"The ease of setup is the most valuable aspect of this solution. It's easy to set up and run tests."
"The product is very stable."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"During my testing, the features that I like the most are that it can be integrated with my system, and it provides me with reports of all of my servers."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"We use Zabbix to monitor our organization's IT infrastructure and workstations. We don't use Microsoft Intune since it's expensive. The tool's real-time alerting system has proved crucial for us, particularly when a new device joins a network that is not one of our own devices. It notifies us about the presence of this new device, allowing us to investigate further. Additionally, it alerts us about disk usage, memory usage, and the software installed on the machine."
"The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration."
"Like other common Linux distributions, some of the most valuable features of this solution are the ease of use and deployment. It's simple and has a lot of packages and a lot of software."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"You can't delete more than one thing at a time. It would be great to be able to highlight three out of five things and delete them, whether it's a test or an actual report."
"The customization of tests and even the results can be improved."
"Ixia has one flaw, which is that they do not print the license code on the paper licenses that are shipped to the customers."
"Improvements in network performance are essential."
"The user interface could be better."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"The event correlation could be better."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
Ixia Hawkeye is ranked 46th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 4 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 100 reviews. Ixia Hawkeye is rated 9.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Ixia Hawkeye writes "A valuable tool for optimizing network performance and security with comprehensive network monitoring capabilities, user-friendly interface, and flexibility for scripting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Ixia Hawkeye is most compared with ThousandEyes, Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Ixia Hawkeye vs. Zabbix report.
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