Chronosphere vs Zabbix comparison

"Integrating Chronosphere was pretty much easy coming from an open source tool and it helped us to streamline our monitoring and alerting setup across our organization, which directly impacted on the streamlining of the process as well as reducing errors and also keeping our environment uptime to a greater extent by those alerts and quick responses."

"The alerting features are good"

"Chronosphere has impacted my organization positively as for starters, we brought down the cost drastically since we completely moved to Chronosphere."

"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."

"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."

"Zabbix is very flexible and scalable."

"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."

"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."

"We have thrown everything at it, and it has managed to keep going, and I am very impressed with the tool, and I would shake their hand very hard if I got to say the compliments to the Zabbix team."

"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."

"It is a good product. It is easy to integrate and use."

"Sometimes when identifying the specific logs patterns and identifying what metrics and what logs are coming in, going to a specific log explorer and finding it there is a little difficult."

"It's not easy for everyone."

"In logging, I would prefer if Chronosphere could do something in the way of a dictionary or a JSON lookup kind of logging, which would be much easier in terms of directly searching for a particular keyword rather than a string match."

"The initial setup could be complex if you don't have templates. If creating templates from scratch, it's quite difficult, but if you are using already pre-created templates and setups for your needs, it looks very good."

"In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually."

"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."

"The potential and customization is a little difficult because you have to learn scripts."

"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."

"The event correlation could be better."

"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."

"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."

"I was using the free, Community Edition."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"The product is an open source and free solution."

"The tool's licensing is good."

"The solution is free. However, many open-sourced tools start out free but eventually start charging."

"I use the tool's free version."

"There are no licenses."

"There is a license required for this solution and we pay annually for our license."