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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AA solution to deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplified by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations.N/A

    Zabbix

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AZabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.N/A
    Pricing
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackZabbix
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    71%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackZabbix
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack and Zabbix
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
    8.2
    8 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Zabbix
    -
    Ratings
    Security and Isolation8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cluster Management8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization8.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discovery Tools7.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackZabbix
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Icinga
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
    HPE OneView
    Score6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackZabbix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (9 ratings)
    8.3
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (7 ratings)
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    5.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackZabbix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is quite straightforward with the UI and you can expose the features you want. This simplifies the experience for non-admins
    Incentivized
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    Zabbix
    Zabbix is great for monitoring your servers and seeing alerts when the system uses too much CPU or memory. This allowed the system Engineer to be proactive and add resources to these systems to avoid interrupting the services. Especially servers running operations applications and services. This is one of the best usages for Zabbix.
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    Pros
    F5
    • Complex cloud configurations.
    • WAF and DDoS protection.
    • Automation and workflow integration.
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    Zabbix
    • Collecting hardware data - CPU, Memory, Network, and Disk Metrics are collected and reported on.
    • Flexible design - It is very easy to build out even very large environments via the templating system. You can also start where you are - network monitoring, server monitoring, etc. and then build it out from there as time and resources permit.
    • Provides a "plugin architecture" (via XML templates) to allow end users to extend it to monitor all kinds of equipment, software, or other metrics that are not already added into the software already.
    • Very complete documentation. Almost every aspect of Zabbix has been documented and reported on.
    • Cost - Zabbix is FOSS software and always free. Support is reasonably priced and readily available.
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    Cons
    F5
    • It's still a little early so the app feels foreign to our ops teams
    • I would like to customize the UI so I can visually see if I'm in Prod or Dev based on background colors
    • Templates are a little awkward to create
    Incentivized
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    Zabbix
    • Creating an alert & its trigger can be made easier.
    • More VM-based data collection counters should be introduced to have better VM monitoring.
    • The raw counters collection agent in every node is relatively weak. It goes down often, which needs more stability.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    once we get the hang of it and able to use it effectively, we are able to try out different application ideas without affecting existing infrastructure
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    Zabbix
    It is free. It didn't cost anything to implement (other than my time and the cost incurred for it) and it is filling a badly needed gap in our IT infrastructure. Support is available if we have issues and can be done annually or paid for on a per incident basis as needed. Expansion, updates, and all other future lifecycle activities are likewise free of cost, so as long as someone is able to implement/maintain the software (and the OSS project is maintained) then I imagine the company will never leave it.
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    Usability
    F5
    I gave F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack this usability rating because, in my experience, the F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack product meets all the expectations
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    Zabbix
    I think every organization, especially the IT department, needs a tool like this. I know of another product like Zabbix that gives a similar or the same solution, but its range makes it very useful. You can see almost all the device info in one place: disk usage, disk space, network usage, etc.
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    Support Rating
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's support team is very responsive
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    Zabbix
    The setup is the most time-consuming portion of using zabbix. It takes a lot of effort to shape it into a usable format and even then it can get very messy. It's not exactly intuitive and as mentioned the UI seems a bit antiquated. If I was to roll out a monitoring solution from scratch, I'd probably look for alternatives which are easier to use and maintain.
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    Implementation Rating
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's partner provided services are excellent
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    Zabbix
    We are a mainly Windows environment, so it would be useful if we could have used Active Directory to deploy agents. As of version 4.2, Zabbix has announced a new agent MSI file to allow exactly that. Unfortunately, we didn't have that option. Also, for Linux and MAC deployments, there is no simple way to deploy that. Using remote scripts you may be able to create something, but most places will opt for either SNMP (agentless) or manual installation of agents to add to Zabbix. A way of deploying agents via discovery would go a long way to helping in the adoption of the tool.
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
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    Zabbix
    We're using the Solarwinds suite as our global monitoring standard, but it is very complex and its licensing model makes it difficult to monitor a wide range of technologies. So, we're using Zabbix as a complement on our monitoring process. Zabbix is a way more flexible and has free integrations to a wide range of technologies. It is also more 'user friendly' and easy to manage.
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • The WAF can be resource intensive in some cases
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    Zabbix
    • Good ROI when trying to get ahead of network related problems instead of waiting for users to complain
    • Good ROI when doing upgrades or exploratory work on a neglected network
    • Good ROI when showing usage trends to management showing higher actual usage versus what was thought to be happening
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