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."What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"It is a stable solution."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."
"The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."
"The flexibility of this solution is amazing."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"The solution allows for good integration with other products."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"The basic setup is very easy."
"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."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"The performance reporting could be improved."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"My company wanted to do an exercise command to access IT from Cameroon. They wanted to access an FSS to a second host with second equipment that was on another coast but it is not possible on Zabbix to do it. They want to directly access from the front-end of Zabbix to access a prompt in Zabbix to an access terminal. In the front-end, there is no way to do that. That would be an important improvement."
"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."
"The stability could be better."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 100 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, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Grafana vs. Zabbix report.
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