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."The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"The solution has good features."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."
"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"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 network traffic monitoring."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The solution should include online support."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible."
"Look and feel."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
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 101 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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