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 solution can scale well."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"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."
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"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."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
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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