We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"The architecture and system's stability are simple."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"The Elastic User Interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. You need to have some Javascript knowledge. We need that knowledge to develop new custom tests."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."
"Like other common Linux distributions, some of the most valuable features of this solution are the ease of use and deployment. It's simple and has a lot of packages and a lot of software."
"The initial setup was very quick. The first time it was long because I didn't know it yet. I was only using Windows. The first time was very difficult because of the operating system."
"The flexibility of this solution is amazing."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."
"There is less computing power needed for scaling."
"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."
"Elastic Observability needs to improve the retrieval of logs and metrics from all the instances."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"Elastic Observability is an excellent product for monitoring and visibility, but it lacks predictive analytics. Most solutions are aligned with the AIOps requirements, but this piece is missing in Elastic and should be included."
"The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"Elastic Observability is difficult to use. There are only three options for customization but this can be difficult for our use case. We do not have other options to choose the metrics shown, such as CPU or memory usage."
"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."
"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"My company wanted to do an exercise command to access IT from Cameroon. They wanted to access an FSS to a second host with second equipment that was on another coast but it is not possible on Zabbix to do it. They want to directly access from the front-end of Zabbix to access a prompt in Zabbix to an access terminal. In the front-end, there is no way to do that. That would be an important improvement."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."
Elastic Observability is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 13 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 35 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "Allows us capture data in observability points, place it into a database, and analyze it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Checkmk, Nagios XI, Centreon, Splunk Enterprise Security and Pandora FMS. See our Elastic Observability vs. Zabbix report.
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