We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) 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 most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"It's easy to use."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
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"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."
"It could be more stable."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"It could be even more automated."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
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"The stability could be better."
"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"The event correlation could be better."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 24th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 98 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Zabbix report.
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