We performed a comparison between Grafana 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 most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"It has good stability."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"It is a stable solution."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."
"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"The performance reporting could be improved."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"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."
"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Grafana vs. Zabbix report.
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