We performed a comparison between Dynatrace 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 user interface is like a type of dashboard. You can use the tool as an end user into the tool interface, which is good."
"We are using Dynatrace for prediction and staging for every step of our development cycle."
"The server monitoring is very accurate in this tool. We are able to prevent many critical Incidents."
"Easy to install and start using it."
"Dynatrace can look into application transactions at the packet level, which pretty much relieves us of the work of manually collecting, analyzing, summarizing, and presenting the data, as we had done in the past."
"Dynatrace's new AI stuff really out shines its competitors. "
"Dynatrace alerts are based on deviations from the reference metrics which are constantly collected."
"Dynatrace AppMon has allowed a deep dive review of performance problems in near real-time for our primary external website and related web apps and web services."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"We sometimes have to run plugins on docker containers."
"I find it is very difficult to train someone in using this application. As amazing as it can be, the learning curve is extensive."
"I do know that for the size of our organization, we're talking thousands of agents and hundreds of applications, it does get to the point where the servers themselves that house Dynatrace are at a point where, in some cases, they are just too big for one machine, since you have to have an entire application ecosystem all funnel into a single system."
"They've leveraged those security gateways and renamed them ActiveGates, and now there are different web plugins we can run on it... Sometimes the development of those seems to be running very fast and it's not complete. They don't yet function quite as easily as the OneAgents do. But I have hopes that that's going to get better. We have tried the MQ, the Citrix, and the Oracle ActiveGate plugins. They could be sharper. It's the right direction to go. It just seems like it could be smoother."
"There's no download action for the reports, so if they could add something like that, it would add value for us. We cannot save data for more than seven to 10 days, so it would be better to add a feature for downloading. At least we could store the data and then we could compare for ourselves, where we are starting and where we are and where we are heading. I would have those metrics."
"We have a load testing team, they completely rely on the reporting for analyzing the data. They should have a template to create a report and they should have something to auto-deliver the report into your email box."
"UEM (User Experience Management) works great for web clients and Android and IOS apps, but for other rich clients it's a lot more challenging."
"As the product is evolving quickly and product features are added on a monthly basis, a more transparent roadmap would be more than welcome."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"The event correlation could be better."
"The product could be more secure and more stable."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"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."
"There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM. See our Dynatrace vs. Zabbix report.
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