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.
"It offers direct integrations with various storage providers, making it convenient to push logs from CloudWatch to these external platforms."
"We can create events and alerts. We use the information to dive down into the infrastructure performance."
"The detection is the most valuable feature."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"Health and communication links availability."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"The solution's pricing is a bit higher."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"The configuration capabilities could be better."
"The product’s documentation must be improved."
"The graphical interface has room for improvement. CloudWatch only gives you a breakdown of what's wrong. However, it would be nice if it could automatically remedy the problems it identifies. You should be able to configure it so that when a specific condition arises, it will take a predefined action."
"Some of our customers want to use Kubernetes to monitor their CICD flow but Amazon CloudWatch does not support it. We need to use another solution, such as Datadog or Dynatrace has the needed capability."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"The product could be more secure and more stable."
"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 98 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 XI and SCOM. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Zabbix report.
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