We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard 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: Despite the fact that Zabbix is free, Meraki Dashboard is the winner in this comparison. It is a robust and high-performing solution that received high marks for its single management pane. In contrast, Zabbix users feel that it isn’t very user-friendly.
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"The solution scales well."
"We like how Meraki Dashboard lets you manage all the devices in a single pane of glass. The dashboard is intuitive and easy to use. They are constantly updating the functionality. Switches from other vendors have the same features for the life of the device, but Meraki is always improving."
"We like the visibility this solution gives us of the infrastructure."
"It's a simple, functional solution."
"It is a reliable product. It provides a lot of information that is easy to read."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"There is less computing power needed for scaling."
"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"Health and communication links availability."
"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Price could be reduced."
"Lacks an alert notification when there are IP or DNS issues."
"An area for improvement in Meraki Dashboard is licensing management because it's a little complex. Product licensing can be made a little bit easier through license concurrency and a more straightforward approach to applying the license to products and services."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."
"It would be nicer if the dashboard was lighter."
"It is not appropriate for large, enterprise businesses."
"What needs improvement in Meraki Dashboard is its configuration. It'll also be better if the tool has more functionality, and that is what I'd like to see in its next release."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
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Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. Zabbix report.
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