Compare Datadog vs. Zabbix
Datadog is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 10 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 11 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "They have a good ecosystem for their integrations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Reasonable network monitoring which works okay if you don't mind the glitches". Datadog is most compared with Splunk, New Relic APM and AppDynamics, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Icinga and Nagios XI. See our Datadog vs. Zabbix report.
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I can't point to one valuable feature. All of Centreon is good. It is decentralized, which is better, because you can reduce the load from a single system. Also, you get a better view because it's more independent. Then, for the management, it's nice because they have one central system. With that, they can manage all the other systems, as well. This means they don't have to configure each system by system. They can configure it from one single interface. We use the remote server functionality on some customer sites, because you can see an independent view and are not dependent on a single connection. If you have branch offices or bigger office outside your headquarters, you can use remote servers because if the connection is broken or disrupted, then remote server will obtain a view of your environment and server availability. This is a good point against using other solutions. Because with other solutions, you don't have this feature. Then, you will be blind if you have this type of a situation. I find the product's scalability to be one of the most valuable features since it allows us to add unlimited devices for monitoring and to set up additional polling servers without additional license cost or downtime in our monitoring. The product is available in ISO image format, ready for deployment. Centreon also has a comprehensive guide and documentation that are simple and easy to follow. The most important feature is that it permits us to receive alarms if there is an incident within the infrastructure. The feature I love the most is the reporting feature, the MBI (Monitoring Business Intelligence) which permits us to send advanced reports to our customers in PDF format or in Doc format. We also deploy Centreon Map which gives our customers intuitive views of their information system. We are alerted on service impacts and not when something is down. We have saved a lot of time on non-business-hours intervention. What I like most about Centreon is that it is very flexible and customizable, based on the user and/or business needs. Centreon is very flexible when it comes to monitoring parameters. We can use scripts found on the internet or scripts created by our infra/apps team. Also, the data visualization features are very simple and straightforward, yet very informative. | It has enhanced the performance of my team. It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud. It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation. The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us. The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD. The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it. If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not. It has a nice UI. | We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix. Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage. Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold. We use it to monitor and manage our servers. Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures. It can send messages to our ticketing system. It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system. We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes. |
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There is room for improvement in the area of artificial intelligence. The product gives us a lot of information, but it's only information. We want the product to do more auto-remediation. I would like to see an improvement of the communication with big data systems, because Centreon is a monitoring system. In our point of view, Centreon should be a part of a source for a big data system, not a big data system itself. So, it should be easier to add data from the Centreon system to a big data system. For example, it should be able to teach machine learning. Centreon supports officially 10,000 services per poller. That is not much for larger customers, because this limit is reached very quickly. We use it with three times the limit without any problems, but Centreon says, "Okay, we are only supporting it with 10,000 services." We are aware that increasing the limit has different impacts because they need to support it. However, for most customers, it would be be very good if they could increase the limit of services. The Home view could be improved by adding customization functions that allow users to change the size of the widgets for a more uniform layout. Centreon technical support is only available during Central European business hours. When it comes to critical business solutions, there should be a 24/7 hotline that customers can rely on. I would like to see a better UI, one which is more responsive. The most important issue is the capability to interconnect with other systems. It already exists for some of them. For example, the Stream Connector is something we use to populate data in another system. This kind of facility for connecting should exist for all products that it makes sense to have connected to a monitoring solution. Centreon needs to improve the granularity of the data as well as the graphical data. It would also be better to if there was improvement to the filtering/grouping system as well as the creation of views. | The product could do better with its notifications. It does not have the best interface. Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents. It lacks consistency in the APIs. There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect. We have asked technical support questions, and sometimes they don't get back to us right away. Or when they do, it is not the right answer. I would love to see support for front-end and mobile applications. Right now, it is mostly all back-end stuff. Being able to do some integration with our front-end products would be awesome. I would like testing for data in the future. | I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box. The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance. I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this. Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition. I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes. |
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The pricing starts at around 5000 euro. However, this depends on: Your environment, the size of your host, how many hosts you have, how many remote pollers you have, and if you want to use the Monitoring Business Intelligence or Centreon MAP functionalities. You purchase a package. You have a support contract (there is also a platinum support contract) and it is per module. That means you have to pay, e.g., for the MBI module or the BAM module. Or, if you want to save a lot of money, you can pay for IMP, which is the complete package. Open-source solutions like this can be very cost effective for an organization looking for a product that they can quickly implement, as there is no initial cost and there are no license renewal fees. However, it is important to take into consideration some of the related costs that may come along as needed, such as training, support, and product enhancements. The solution is very effective, despite the low price. I think Centreon's pricing is fair, especially given the criticality of our system. They were cheaper than the other solutions. The licensing terms were pretty straightforward. I believe it was based on the number of hosts. The pricing is acceptable. They only sell four hour slots for support, so if you have just one question, then you need to pay for four hours. Or, you need to wait until you have enough questions to fill those four hours. They are not flexible in this. For more complex tasks, we use prepaid support days and ask Centreon to come onsite. | The pricing came up a bit compared to their competitors. It is not that the price has risen, but that the competitors have gone down. They keep adding more features that I would have expected to be baked in at a more nominal price. I have been increasingly dissatisfied with the pricing, but not enough to jump ship. It costs the same amount it would if we were hosting it ourselves, so we are incredibly happy with the cost. At my last company, we did see ROI, specifically around response time. We could get to mission critical things that were down and losing revenue on immediately. So, the product paid itself back. The pricing and licensing through AWS Marketplace has been good. It would be nice if it was cheaper, but their pricing is reasonable for what it is. Sometimes, for their newer features, they charge as if it's fully fleshed out, even though it is a newer feature and it may have less stuff than their other items. It has always scaled for us. Cost scales up too, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. It's reasonable for what they're providing. Pricing and licensing are reasonable for what they give you. You get the first five hosts free, which is fun to play around with. Then it's about four dollars a month per host, which is very affordable for what you get out of it. We have a lot of hosts that we put a lot of custom metrics into, and every host gives you an allowance for the number of custom metrics. Pricing seems reasonable. It depends on the size of your organization, the size of your infrastructure, and what portion of your overall business costs go toward infrastructure. | It is free, which allows us to reduce costs. It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation. |
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| The Centreon solution, based on a free to download Open Source Platform, monitors all critical IT Infrastructure and Applications with real-time dashboards, analytics and insightful alerts that prevent business-impacting downtimes. Since 2005, over 200,000 IT professionals from SMBs and Fortune 500 companies rely on Centreon to guarantee their organization operational performance. | Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight. | Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices. Zabbix is Open Source and comes at no cost. |
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| Airbus, Bollore, BT, Canal Plus, Kuehne Nagel, Limagrain, LVMH, Oberthur Technologies, Orange, Darty, Addax Petroleum, Plastic Omnium, Auchan, Valeo, Saint Gobin, Clarins, Hugo Boss, JC Decaux, French Government (Defense, Justice, Environment, Agriculture), OptiComm, Thales, Zeiss. | Adobe, Samsung, facebook, HP Cloud Services, Electronic Arts, salesforce, Stanford University, CiTRIX, Chef, zendesk, Hearst Magazines, Spotify, mercardo libre, Slashdot, Ziff Davis, PBS, MLS, The Motley Fool, Politico, Barneby's | Bodybuilding.com, LLC., ITtelligent Consulting Services,Eltele AS, Total Server Solutions, LLC., ChinaNetCloud |
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Software R&D Company34% Comms Service Provider13% Media Company9% Government5% | Comms Service Provider25% Retailer13% Philanthropy13% Media Company13% Software R&D Company28% Comms Service Provider12% Financial Services Firm10% Media Company8% | Financial Services Firm18% Software R&D Company9% Aerospace/Defense Firm9% Retailer9% Software R&D Company29% Comms Service Provider15% Media Company7% Financial Services Firm7% |
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