We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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."AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"Management Console - Managing service to each server enrolled in the Solarwinds is much easier. Using a web base console, you can control your service much convenient way. There is no need to login remotely. It save a lot of time and effort."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"The calculations part is the most valuable."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."
"One area that could benefit from improvement is its performance"
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."
"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 integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."
"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."
"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."
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SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 17th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM. See our SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor vs. Zabbix report.
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