We performed a comparison between Scout APM and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The product can scale."
"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"The calculations part is the most valuable."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
"In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually. For example, if we collect a report file every day and want to send it to a moderator for review. We are expecting this feature to come out soon but it would be valuable to have now."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
"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 main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast."
"The documentation could be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
Scout APM is ranked 32nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. Scout APM is rated 10.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Scout APM is most compared with Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana and Elastic Observability, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI.
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