We performed a comparison between Grafana 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 initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."
"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."
"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."
"The flexibility of this solution is amazing."
"The formatting could be better."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
"It could be more stable."
"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."
"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."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Grafana vs. Zabbix report.
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