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 most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."
"Health and communication links availability."
"Our customers also like that they don't have to use multiple modules. Micro Focus and major vendors typically require you to buy several modules and plugins. Our customers do not like that. We offer them a single product for all their monitoring needs."
"We use Zabbix to monitor our organization's IT infrastructure and workstations. We don't use Microsoft Intune since it's expensive. The tool's real-time alerting system has proved crucial for us, particularly when a new device joins a network that is not one of our own devices. It notifies us about the presence of this new device, allowing us to investigate further. Additionally, it alerts us about disk usage, memory usage, and the software installed on the machine."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"The event correlation could be better."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."
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, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM. See our Grafana vs. Zabbix report.
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