We performed a comparison between Grafana 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."Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."
"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"The solution allows for good integration with other products."
"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."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this."
"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."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
"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."
"Sometimes, the documentation is a little bit written in Estonia – a country in Europe. The language barrier and translation to English can sometimes make it difficult to understand what they're trying to get at. It's just a language thing."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 100 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Grafana vs. Zabbix report.
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