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."There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."
"The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"The solution allows for good integration with other products."
"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"The user interface could be better."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."
"I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."
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, 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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