We performed a comparison between Icinga and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Macros and the ability to connect it to Google Maps are valuable features."
"The drafts are easy but what I like about Icinga is that there are many add-ons that you can download."
"The value of Icinga is that it has hundreds of plugins, so it's really easy to monitor pretty much anything."
"An affordable solution for small organizations to do basic network monitoring."
"The apply rules feature saves a lot of time."
"It is really easy in Icinga to create your own plugin and integrate it without any fuss. And it works just perfectly fine."
"Icinga does the job and is fairly stable."
"I like the ability to amend and adjust things really easily, which is useful in a case where you could make it auto-discover and then set a template to say all of these applications or servers under this template have an automatic threshold set that you’d set up manually."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."
"The basic setup is very easy."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"At this time, the layout of the website is a bit difficult. It should be more user-friendly for changing the background and logos."
"The user interface should be improved."
"In general, the product does not look good. However, it does what it is supposed to do. So, the improvements should focus on usability and UI."
"One thing that Icinga lacks is the capability to create advanced and customized dashboards within the tool itself."
"The tool currently fails to provide notifications to users."
"I think the software is quite good, but we have had problems with getting it to recognize certain areas and amend certain checks, where we needed so we would have to create backend scripts for those checks. Though, being open source, it has the support to create backend scripts, it would be better to have these scripts in-built."
"The installation and configuration are very complex."
"It needs Trap SNMP. I saw the documentation for Zabbix, that it has its own built-in product which handles SNMP traps, and there's nothing similar in Icinga or Nagios. I think this feature is most important for me."
"The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."
"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great."
"Zabbix can use better documentation and support for troubleshooting."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible."
"The user interface could be better."
Icinga is ranked 19th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 16 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 98 reviews. Icinga is rated 7.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Icinga writes "A stable, scalable and cost-effective solution that helps with inbuilt scripts for easy modification". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Icinga is most compared with Checkmk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI, Centreon and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Lenovo XClarity Controller. See our Icinga vs. Zabbix report.
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