We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Its ability to quickly inventory our resources, figure out interdependencies across them, and assemble a topology of your environment is brilliant. There is a price associated with it. Whenever you target a NetApp environment, it is included in the price but whenever you want to add different vendors, like VMware and Cisco, the price greatly spikes. Inventorization helps us a lot to visualize the environment."
"Cloud Secure is definitely the most valuable feature and being able to see file level activity. It gives real-time alerting on possible ransomware attacks and provides file security review. It helps us to see if something abnormal is happening on the system before it's too late."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"You can enable alarms and metrics, and it has robust integration with AWS services. You can also trigger events. For example, if the CPU utilization is above 80%, it can launch a new instance for you."
"The solution is easy to use."
"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"I like being able to use proxy servers for different locations. The agents are pretty cool. They're easy to roll out. The standard out-of-the-box templates are also pretty easy to use. The integration with other learning products is also good. I have, in the past, used Slack, but we've integrated it with Microsoft Teams. We also use it for SMS with a service called Redcoat. It is very flexible. It does what I need it to do, and my manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything. We are nearing 4,000 hosts inside Zabbix, and we've got another 6,000 access points to add to it. We've thrown everything at it, and it has managed to keep going. I am very impressed with the tool, and I'd shake their hand very hard if I got to say the compliments to the Zabbix team. They keep improving it and doing refreshes, which is one good thing about it. There is also online information as well as books that you can purchase if you're willing to read enough. There is a lot to pick up, but it is a pretty complete solution."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"The product is very stable."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"The solution is stable."
"In a perfect world we would have something built, right out-of-the-box, that can identify what we call "noise," and reduce the amount of data. You're presented with so much data when you first start the data collectors. For example, it brings back a lot of change rates that happen just because of standard computing, like profile changes and that sort of thing. Being able to identify things like that and categorize them and strip it down—and it probably can do that, I just haven't gotten there yet—would be very beneficial."
"Their pricing model needs improvement."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"For monitoring applications or for APM, CloudWatch has some limitations. You cannot monitor application performance from CloudWatch, and you have to go for a third-party tool."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"The configuration capabilities could be better."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"We'd like the interface to be as easy as Datadog."
"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."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."
"There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc."
"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 13th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 7 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 44 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 7.8, while Zabbix is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Datadog, Google Stackdriver, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and LogicMonitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Centreon, Splunk and Datadog. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Zabbix report.
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