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."There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"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 feature is monitoring."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"We use Zabbix to monitor our organization's IT infrastructure and workstations. We don't use Microsoft Intune since it's expensive. The tool's real-time alerting system has proved crucial for us, particularly when a new device joins a network that is not one of our own devices. It notifies us about the presence of this new device, allowing us to investigate further. Additionally, it alerts us about disk usage, memory usage, and the software installed on the machine."
"The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"One of the things we don't like is that Zabbix has a license structure with a price that is high compared to the competition. It's very high, for example, compared to something like Microsoft Teams."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."
"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."
"The performance reporting could be improved."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 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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