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."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"The interface is user-friendly, making it easy to use."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"There are a lot of options for customization of the dashboard, alerts, and reports."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"The product is scalable."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"The flexibility of this solution is amazing."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"I like being able to use proxy servers for different locations. The agents are pretty cool. They're easy to roll out. The standard out-of-the-box templates are also pretty easy to use. The integration with other learning products is also good. I have, in the past, used Slack, but we've integrated it with Microsoft Teams. We also use it for SMS with a service called Redcoat. It is very flexible. It does what I need it to do, and my manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything. We are nearing 4,000 hosts inside Zabbix, and we've got another 6,000 access points to add to it. We've thrown everything at it, and it has managed to keep going. I am very impressed with the tool, and I'd shake their hand very hard if I got to say the compliments to the Zabbix team. They keep improving it and doing refreshes, which is one good thing about it. There is also online information as well as books that you can purchase if you're willing to read enough. There is a lot to pick up, but it is a pretty complete solution."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"Health and communication links availability."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
"The integration with video apps could be better."
"The price of the solution can be improved."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"The solution's customer service is not very good because the support takes too long."
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"It could be more stable."
"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The event correlation could be better."
"The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 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, Entuity and LogicMonitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI 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