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 integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
"Zabbix isn't very good at automation just yet."
"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."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
"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."
"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."
"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."
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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