We performed a comparison between Instana Infrastructure Monitoring and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The product's initial setup is easy."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."
"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."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"Like other common Linux distributions, some of the most valuable features of this solution are the ease of use and deployment. It's simple and has a lot of packages and a lot of software."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"There is less computing power needed for scaling."
"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."
"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."
"There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
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Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 44th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 2 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 101 reviews. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring writes "A reasonably stable and scalable tool for monitoring purposes with an easy initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), Amazon CloudWatch, Checkmk, Opsview and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI.
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