We compared Zabbix and Amazon CloudWatch across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Zabbix's setup can vary in ease and complexity, requiring technical expertise and knowledge of Linux and programming. However, it offers extensive features, customization options, and a free open-source version. On the other hand, Amazon CloudWatch has an easy and straightforward setup process, user-friendly interface, and good technical support. It is highly valued for its simplicity, stability, scalability, and integration with other AWS services. However, it has limitations in monitoring application performance and generating reports. Pricing-wise, Zabbix is free and open-source, while CloudWatch's pricing is considered reasonable.
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon CloudWatch is that it gives you detailed information, which I found helpful because it can even provide you with data for the past one minute, which is quite granular. That was what helped me most in terms of finding the root causes. Task automation is another valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch."
"I can put it in a simple term, its simplicity is always there."
"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."
"During my testing, the features that I like the most are that it can be integrated with my system, and it provides me with reports of all of my servers."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"CloudWatch doesn’t monitor disk throughput by default."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"The configuration capabilities could be better."
"For monitoring applications or for APM, CloudWatch has some limitations. You cannot monitor application performance from CloudWatch, and you have to go for a third-party tool."
"I think something that can be improved are the alerts and alerting mechanism based on no rejects. We want to have it more flexible and that is one of the key things that is required."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"The performance reporting could be improved."
"Improvement is needed as per customer requirements."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"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."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Instana Infrastructure Monitoring, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, SolarWinds NPM and Nagios XI. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Zabbix report.
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