We performed a comparison between AppDynamics 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."It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The basic setup is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"There is less computing power needed for scaling."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"More native support for other hardware is needed because having to install various extensions and perform extra setup for different devices is really challenging, and not as easy or straightforward as it is in other products."
"The integration part in AppDynamics with other systems is an area with a little difficulty, especially when it comes to the configuration area. The integration of AppDynamics with other products takes a lot of time."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first screen you see."
"At this time, we don't have much visibility on the virtual environment, monitoring, and all other things. We have visibility only for database monitoring, and we have noticed performance impact when deploying database agents on the database server. We got to know this from AppDynamics support also that we should not deploy database agents from the database server. When agents are deployed on the same server and the database is monitored from there, we are not getting database server metrics. Therefore, we don't have those insights, and sometimes, we struggle because of that. They can improve this functionality so that we do not have a performance impact, and we can deploy anywhere. This would help us a lot. In terms of end-user monitoring, currently, it is not working for us because there are some complexities. It is a little complicated, and it takes a little bit of time to understand where you need to make changes. It would be very helpful if they can provide some template designs for end-user monitoring. When our servers are running on VMs, we don't get many insights from the VM side. I don't know whether it is possible to have visibility beyond the database, server, and application and whether there are some features where we can deploy AppDynamics on VMs as well. Such functionality would give us more control over storage, VM, OS, and database. It will also provide complete visibility of our hardware and software."
"Sometimes, the documentation is a little bit written in Estonia – a country in Europe. The language barrier and translation to English can sometimes make it difficult to understand what they're trying to get at. It's just a language thing."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
"The event correlation could be better."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our AppDynamics vs. Zabbix report.
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