We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Zabbix based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In this comparison, Zabbix comes out slightly ahead because it is open-source whereas SolarWinds NPM is not.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its graphical interface and reports."
"The most valuable feature is the way it monitors the environment, and how user-friendly the console is for the end-user. The interface is also very easy and it captures all the information very well."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"I found a lot of valuable features in SolarWinds NPM, such as the customized application monitoring that allows you to customize any monitoring and script customization, and you also have the option to deploy and upgrade SolarWinds NPM online, which is very useful for my organization."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"It's a flexible solution."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"The root cause analysis and installation faults are not clear."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"The price of the solution can be improved."
"The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance."
"The documentation could be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"Improvement is needed as per customer requirements."
"Zabbix isn't very good at automation just yet."
"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"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."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes, Entuity and LogicMonitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI and Amazon CloudWatch. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. Zabbix report.
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Hello ,
just to let you know about my modest contribution, indeed its two tools are very practical: The choice of one of the solutions depends on two factors:
- The price and the competence of the system administrators
Zabbix is a free tool and requires a strong Linux, Scripting skill for all that is custom supervision. integration with third-party tools ( Grafana Dashbord , Ticketing Tools ...)
Solarwinds is very intuitive and complete (reporting, view, resources, NOC view) all its features are integrated and easily configurable.
Regards
Arsène