We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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."SolarWinds is a very stable platform compared to others on the market."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."
"Management Console - Managing service to each server enrolled in the Solarwinds is much easier. Using a web base console, you can control your service much convenient way. There is no need to login remotely. It save a lot of time and effort."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"The most valuable feature is application monitoring."
"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"The basic setup is very easy."
"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"They should incorporate more artificial intelligence. There should also be more predictive features."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"It should be easy to modify the front end."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
"Zabbix isn't very good at automation just yet."
"Look and feel."
"The documentation could be improved."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."
"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."
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SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor vs. Zabbix report.
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