We performed a comparison between Datadog 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."It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"The visibility that it provides is valuable. It is helping in being proactive around incident management. It is helping us to be able to get more visibility into our customers' applications so that we can assist them at the application layer. We also provide them the infrastructure from an AWS standpoint. We are able to make sure that our customers are aware of certain critical things around the analytical piece of either the network or the application. We're able to call customers before they even know about the issue. From there, we can start putting together some change management processes and help them a bit."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"The solution is stable."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"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 integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."
"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"I've found that the documentation is lacking in certain regards."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"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 only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."
"In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually. For example, if we collect a report file every day and want to send it to a moderator for review. We are expecting this feature to come out soon but it would be valuable to have now."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
"The user interface could be better."
"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."
"When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible."
"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."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 101 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 41 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Provides insightful analytics and good visibility that assist with making architectural decisions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic APM, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Sentry, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Centreon, Splunk and Lenovo XClarity Controller. See our Datadog vs. Zabbix report.
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