We performed a comparison between Splunk APM 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 solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."
"Health and communication links availability."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."
"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"The documentation could be improved."
"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."
"There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc."
"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."
"It could be more stable."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. Splunk APM is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Monte Carlo, Elastic Observability and Observe, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM. See our Splunk APM vs. Zabbix report.
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