We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The stuff that's coming with the new pieces around the Dynatrace Managed SaaS implementation. The ease of implementation there is significant. We've spent a lot of time with AppMon and DC RUM - that's a lot of time to set up, configure. With Managed solution, you just drop it in and everything pretty much auto-instruments."
"Mean time to recover (MTTR) has reduced significantly during major outages due to specific data pinpointed by DT applications."
"We have identified some critical issues, which are not available or recreatable in the Dev or QA environment."
"It gives us all the data on all the calls, which is something that is very different from any other APM solution that I have seen or used in the past."
"Great for monitoring critical internal and public-facing applications."
"The most valuable features are end user visibility, Smartscape, and the entire visibility of our data center, including SQL queries."
"It is getting to the point that the CTO of the organization knows the tool by first name and will look to have it brought up, because it is so consistent, reliable, and a cornerstone for solving problems."
".NET core and Spring code level analysis helps with root cause analysis."
"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."
"The solution is stable."
"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."
"The most valuable feature is monitoring."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"There is less computing power needed for scaling."
"Ability to better identify SDQ script errors would be helpful."
"Our environment is very complicated anyway, so the initial setup was a bit of a struggle, but only because we have so many applications and JVMs that we have been working on for long time."
"Session export for offline analysis, like it was in AppMon, would be also nice."
"When you're making that transition from AppMon, which is very dashboard-oriented, over to Dynatrace, which is no dashboards, there needs to be something in between so that business buys in a little bit. I would transition my dashboards over so that we don't have to recreate them, because recreating them is very difficult in Dynatrace. It's really hard to say, "Oh, the dashboards that you had on the team that you were using, you're not going to get over here." Or, "You have to re-create them all over again." People are going to ask questions about cost, who is going to do that."
"So far, we have not achieved the benefit of preventing issues."
"I would suggest to have more rich client features on Appmon as soon as possible."
"The web-based UI needs to be improved."
"The next release I would like to see is especially with external API monitoring. Right now, everything goes into one bucket, but if it were split into which API is failing, that way we wouldn't have to drill down to find out where the failures are."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."
"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Dynatrace vs. Zabbix report.
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