AWS Auto Scaling vs Zabbix comparison

"AWS Auto Scaling is cost-effective and very useful for businesses."

"Our internal business applications are hosted in AWS Auto Scaling."

"The setup is not very complex."

"I would highly recommend Auto Scaling to others because it is a fantastic feature that simplifies scaling processes and makes deployment efficient."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it scales automatically without manual intervention based on the metrics we provide."

"When a lot of traffic comes into our organization, the product scales our instances based on our environment’s requirements."

"I like the graphs provided by the tool."

"It can scale."

"The solution is quite mature and very stable."

"The product is very stable."

"During my testing, the features that I like the most are that it can be integrated with my system, and it provides me with reports of all of my servers."

"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."

"The best feature is that Zabbix can report everything, and everything in Zabbix is free."

"It's the best solution. Great. I would rate the overall solution ten out of ten."

"The most valuable feature is monitoring."

"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."

"It is sometimes very critical to deploy on AWS since some servers are already running in the background. There are challenges for employees on how to deploy at a given time."

"The product could add more features for managing instances."

"In comparison to other public clouds, the product is costly."

"There hasn't been a need for improvements."

"Setting up the configuration involves too much work for the cloud engineer, like configuring the ALB, the target group, and all the steps."

"AWS Auto Scaling's documentation could be better."

"Setting up the configuration involves too much work for the cloud engineer."

"The tool must include AI features."

"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."

"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."

"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."

"In the next release, I'm hoping for features targeted towards larger users with more customizable options. Despite this, I think pre-canned reports that can be used straight out of the box would be beneficial rather than having to configure each report individually. Additionally, a deeper dive into software configurations on the machines would be useful, although I understand there may be challenges in implementing this due to scripting requirements. More documentation would also be appreciated."

"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."

"Its UI needs to be improved a little bit more so that an end-user is also able to handle it. I can handle it, but others should also be able to handle it in a better way. It becomes complex when we are growing and need to add proxies. We need more scalability features and documentation for different use cases. A lot of articles are available, but they need to be in proper documentation. For example, when you have thousands of servers that have to be monitored in different regions of the world, there should be some kind of documentation to describe how you can create proxies and add them. Sometimes, when you are using the database, it can get overloaded. When the network is growing, the number of transactions becomes very high, and the database gets overloaded. There should be information about how to reduce the load on the MySQL database, which is what Zabbix is using. The market is growing a lot, and it should be enhanced for a lot more things. We are currently bringing enhancements at our end for different use cases. For example, when dockerization is going on, how can we check the logs inside the Dockers. We should also be able to monitor and check the number of logins and add features such as SSO login and two-factor authentication as a protocol. These are the security features and concerns that we have to deal with. Currently, we are developing modules to add features to Zabbix, but they should also work on these features."

"The only issue I can note is that it's Linux-based, and Linux documentation is not the best."

"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."

"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."

"AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."

"The product is expensive."

"AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."

"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."

"The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."

"The product has moderate pricing."

"I was using the free, Community Edition."

"It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."

"My manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything."

"We use the open-source version of Zabbix."

"Zabbix is a free solution but the support contact costs money."

"We were searching for an open source solution and Zabbix fit the bill because it is free and open source under the GPL license."

"It's free software released under the GNU/GPL license."

"This solution is completely open-source, so it is quite affordable."