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."
"I like that Meraki Dashboard is a user-friendly product."
"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."
"We've been spending a lot less time on tickets and deployments, so we have more time to do other things."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"Easy to configure with great troubleshooting feature."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"What I love most about the Meraki Dashboard are its user-friendly features."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."
"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"The most valuable feature is monitoring."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Price could be reduced."
"We would like to be able to test the health of WAN connections."
"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."
"They could offer API functionality for Meraki Dashboard. It will help us develop software immediately using available solutions."
"Some features could be added."
"Lacks an alert notification when there are IP or DNS issues."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"Meraki Dashboard's pricing could be improved."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"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."
"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."
"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."
"It should be easy to modify the front end."
"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."
"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 100 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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