We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard 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: Despite the fact that Zabbix is free, Meraki Dashboard is the winner in this comparison. It is a robust and high-performing solution that received high marks for its single management pane. In contrast, Zabbix users feel that it isn’t very user-friendly.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It has improved my organization in the way that we've got a much better wireless coverage than we had before, and secondly, we have the visibility of all the users."
"Easy to configure with great troubleshooting feature."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and a single-pane-of-glass that allows us to identify issues across the entire network from one dashboard."
"It is a reliable product. It provides a lot of information that is easy to read."
"There is no need to swap the hardware at all the locations, and importing the APs into the Dashboard was a simple and quick process."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"The solution scales well."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"During my testing, the features that I like the most are that it can be integrated with my system, and it provides me with reports of all of my servers."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
"I am concerned about the fact that once your licensing expires the devices stop working and become a brick."
"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve integration with non-Cisco platforms."
"It would be nicer if the dashboard was lighter."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"The price could be lower because the license for access points is expensive."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."
"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."
"It should be easy to modify the front end."
"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. Zabbix report.
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