We compared Zabbix and Amazon CloudWatch across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Zabbix's setup can vary in ease and complexity, requiring technical expertise and knowledge of Linux and programming. However, it offers extensive features, customization options, and a free open-source version. On the other hand, Amazon CloudWatch has an easy and straightforward setup process, user-friendly interface, and good technical support. It is highly valued for its simplicity, stability, scalability, and integration with other AWS services. However, it has limitations in monitoring application performance and generating reports. Pricing-wise, Zabbix is free and open-source, while CloudWatch's pricing is considered reasonable.
"I can put it in a simple term, its simplicity is always there."
"I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable."
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"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 support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements."
"What would make Amazon CloudWatch better is if it includes more on-site checks, particularly status checks on the CPU, network input/output, etc. It would also be helpful if there's built-in swap space, disk, and memory monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch because, at the moment, my team has to configure it manually through a shell script."
"Improvement of SSSD logs would be beneficial."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing, because they have a premium version, but it's not really a premium version. It's just an enhanced monitoring version, and it can be a bit expensive depending on your usage."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"I think something that can be improved are the alerts and alerting mechanism based on no rejects. We want to have it more flexible and that is one of the key things that is required."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
"Zabbix isn't very good at automation just yet."
"The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API."
"In the next release, I'm hoping for features targeted towards larger users with more customizable options. Despite this, I think pre-canned reports that can be used straight out of the box would be beneficial rather than having to configure each report individually. Additionally, a deeper dive into software configurations on the machines would be useful, although I understand there may be challenges in implementing this due to scripting requirements. More documentation would also be appreciated."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Nagios XI, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and SCOM. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Zabbix report.
See our list of best Cloud Monitoring Software vendors.
We monitor all Cloud Monitoring Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
