We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability 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 Elastic User Interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. You need to have some Javascript knowledge. We need that knowledge to develop new custom tests."
"Elastic Observability significantly improves incident response time by providing quick access to logs and data across various sources. For instance, searching for specific keywords in logs spanning over a month from multiple data sources can be completed within seconds."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"We use AppDynamics and Elastic. The reason why we're using Elastic APM is because of the license count. It's very favorable compared to AppDynamics. It's inexpensive; it's economical."
"For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool ."
"Its diverse set of features available on the cloud is of significant importance."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"In terms of customization and integration, we have more flexibility. We can automate configurations, define deletion rules, and customize based on the needs. The client interface allows for further configuration, making it quite comprehensive."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"The auto-discovery isn't nearly as good. That's a big portion of it. When you drop the agent onto the JVM and you're trying to figure things out, having to go through and manually do all that is cumbersome."
"The interface could be improved."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"Elastic Observability is difficult to use. There are only three options for customization but this can be difficult for our use case. We do not have other options to choose the metrics shown, such as CPU or memory usage."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."
"There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."
"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
"Its UI should be improved. They did some improvements in version 5, but it could benefit from some more work. Its integrations should also be improved. They've been active for one year, and they seem to have noticed that. It has new integrations, but it could benefit from more integrations. As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this."
"My company wanted to do an exercise command to access IT from Cameroon. They wanted to access an FSS to a second host with second equipment that was on another coast but it is not possible on Zabbix to do it. They want to directly access from the front-end of Zabbix to access a prompt in Zabbix to an access terminal. In the front-end, there is no way to do that. That would be an important improvement."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 98 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and AWS X-Ray, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Elastic Observability vs. Zabbix report.
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