We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and Zabbix based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Despite the fact that Zabbix is free, Meraki Dashboard is the winner in this comparison. It is a robust and high-performing solution that received high marks for its single management pane. In contrast, Zabbix users feel that it isn’t very user-friendly.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The feature I find most valuable is the single pane of glass where you can configure a monitor view, all from one dashboard. For example, on the wireless side, you can configure it under the configuration panel, and then view statistics like location analytics, user analytics, etc."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"The initial setup process is quite simple."
"The most valuable feature is the single pane of glass that gives you multisite visibility."
"The hardware of Meraki is very good quality."
"The initial setup was easy."
"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."
"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."
"The implementation process is very straightforward."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."
"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."
"The tool needs to incorporate more integration platforms. Integrating technical support features directly into the dashboard would be highly beneficial. This would allow technicians to troubleshoot issues more efficiently."
"It would be nicer if the dashboard was lighter."
"It's a very complex system. Customers have told me that sometimes there are lots of advanced features that are available and that you can change in the dashboard, but sometimes it's very hard to know what they are."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"Not a lot of training is available."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to create a floor plan based on an existing PDF or JPEG, which is automatically converted into a usable network map."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
"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."
"The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. Zabbix report.
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