We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM 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: In this comparison, Zabbix comes out slightly ahead because it is open-source whereas SolarWinds NPM is not.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"Network performance is the main issue clients are facing. SolarWinds checks if a node is down, and we can set thresholds for performance metrics. For example, we set it up to get an alert automatically if a value is over 80 percent. It has a full dashboard that covers CP, hard disk, and node monitoring."
"A product that is well-tested and trusted in demanding situations."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"The interface is user-friendly, making it easy to use."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"The product is very stable."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"Zabbix helps to save time."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to have a Syslog server module for this product. That would make the solution better."
"We are looking to change away from this solution because of the documentation and the solution doesn't have enough integration in our country. The documentation is too weak."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"The scalability can be better."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"The price of the solution can be improved."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."
"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."
"In terms of user-friendliness, large maps could be more interactive. We should be able to click on some areas and move some objects. It would make it simpler to see things while analyzing some dedicated parameters."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 6th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 98 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes, LogicMonitor and Entuity, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios XI, Nagios Core and Amazon CloudWatch. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. Zabbix report.
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Hello ,
just to let you know about my modest contribution, indeed its two tools are very practical: The choice of one of the solutions depends on two factors:
- The price and the competence of the system administrators
Zabbix is a free tool and requires a strong Linux, Scripting skill for all that is custom supervision. integration with third-party tools ( Grafana Dashbord , Ticketing Tools ...)
Solarwinds is very intuitive and complete (reporting, view, resources, NOC view) all its features are integrated and easily configurable.
Regards
Arsène