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.
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"The solution gives us very good real-time data."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"I can put it in a simple term, its simplicity is always there."
"We can set CPU thresholds using the solution."
"Zabbix is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"The implementation process is very straightforward."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"Zabbix is scalable."
"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 solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."
"The configuration capabilities could be better."
"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."
"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."
"The monitoring part and GUI are areas in Amazon CloudWatch that have shortcomings currently and can be considered for improvements in the future."
"We'd like the interface to be as easy as Datadog."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"The solution's pricing is a bit higher."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."
"The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance."
"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."
"It could be more stable."
"Look and feel."
"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
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.
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