Grafana Enterprise Stack vs Zabbix comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Zabbix and Grafana Enterprise Stack compete in the monitoring and analytics category. Grafana Enterprise Stack takes the upper hand with its flexible features despite the higher investment.

Features: Zabbix offers extensive monitoring capabilities, open-source flexibility, and quick alerting with built-in templates. Grafana Enterprise Stack provides advanced data visualization, customization options, and in-depth dashboarding suitable for detailed analytics.

Room for Improvement:Zabbix can enhance its data visualization features, expand its customer support options, and simplify integration with third-party tools. Grafana Enterprise Stack could improve its cost structure, streamline its initial setup, and offer more user-friendly interfaces for non-technical users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zabbix has a straightforward deployment model supported by a community, ideal for users who prefer a DIY approach. Grafana Enterprise Stack provides professional-grade deployment and dedicated support, suiting businesses that value comprehensive integration and reliability.

Pricing and ROI:Zabbix's open-source nature allows low initial setup costs, providing good ROI for budget-conscious users. Grafana Enterprise Stack entails a larger upfront investment, justified by its advanced analytical features, offering substantial long-term value for enterprises focused on analytics.

To learn more, read our detailed Grafana Enterprise Stack vs. Zabbix Report (Updated: January 2026).

Grafana Enterprise Stack vs. Zabbix

January 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Grafana Enterprise Stack

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zabbix

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

108

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (10th), Network Monitoring Software (1st), Server Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Grafana Enterprise Stack is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zabbix is 8.2%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Zabbix	8.2%
Grafana Enterprise Stack	1.1%
Other	90.7%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Featured Reviews

Rajan M

Test Lead at Calpine Group

Efficient monitoring and alerting enhance operational insights

With Grafana Enterprise Stack, we can identify issues that New Relic cannot help with. While New Relic requires purchase and supports frontend and backend components, Grafana Enterprise Stack helps identify where issues are occurring. When we need to deep dive into issues, we use New Relic to trace transactions and determine where maximum impact occurs, whether in core size, DB side, or frontend components that slow performance. We first evaluate with Grafana Enterprise Stack, then move to New Relic if we identify performance degradation, such as DB queries taking too much time. Grafana Enterprise Stack responds to queries within 6 to 12 hours. They contact users through email immediately when available. Similarly, New Relic follows the same pattern, responding immediately when requests are raised and resolving issues promptly.

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KamranBhatti

Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Helps reduce response time but has room to improve customization complexity

We are not working on simple standalone solutions like Kaspersky DDoS Protection or Hybrid Cloud Security. Once you understand Zabbix, then it is easy to customize those web pages and graphs for our customer use. It is fully automated to your requirements. Zabbix is working fine with no issues, and I am satisfied with it. We have combined Zabbix and SolarWinds. The integration works fine, and it is easy to integrate Zabbix with the IT environment. We were trying to purchase MDR (Managed Detection and Response), but we are not working on that. I don't have real experience with MDR. We are using Falcon software for that. We are working with Falcon Complete, not with Sandbox. We are not using Kaspersky for business or cloud protection. For that, we are using Zabbix CrowdStrike Falcon Complete solution. I have given this review an overall rating of 8.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Our productivity has improved with its use."

"Grafana's full observability stack, known as LGTM, is highly valuable."

"The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance, from 10 AM to 2 PM, we may experience high memory utilization. It helps us to solve these issues."

"Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful open-source platform with robust capabilities in data visualizations, dashboard creations, and alerting."

"The most valuable features for us are dashboards; we can dashboard anything that we can think of, we can dashboard and measure."

"Grafana's most valuable feature is its ability to provide a graphical representation of data collected from various sources."

"The most valuable feature of Grafana Enterprise Stack is the dashboards."

"It is truly reliable."

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"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."

"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."

"Our customers also like that they don't have to use multiple modules. Micro Focus and major vendors typically require you to buy several modules and plugins. Our customers do not like that. We offer them a single product for all their monitoring needs."

"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."

"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."

"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."

"There is less computing power needed for scaling."

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

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Cons

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved."

"I find Grafana really hard to configure. It's difficult to build the dashboard, and it's non-intuitive. In my opinion, it's very difficult to work with Grafana."

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved. Currently, one needs to ingest labels and timestamps for them to be connected, however, drilling down sometimes takes time."

"In terms of what Grafana provides, it just provides the charting tools. Everything else is third-party."

"I have encountered occasional issues with false inputs or incorrect data in Grafana."

"If Grafana Enterprise Stack could display transaction queries in dashboard format similar to New Relic, it would provide more options and capabilities for users."

"They could use more small tutorials to explain a bit about how Grafana works."

"The tool needs to show only fewer updates."

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"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."

"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."

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

"The event correlation could be better."

"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."

"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."

"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."

"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the tool's free license."

"There is no license but we need to pay for support."

"I use the tool's free version."

"We pay the subscription for support by year."

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

"Zabbix is open-source so if one wishes to implement it in-house, they must have qualified professionals to set up and optimize databases, Linux/Unix OS, PHP, Apache, and depending on what is monitored, a full-stack network and systems administrator may be needed."

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

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

"If you have 20,000 hosts, the support costs around €95,000 for a year."

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it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Energy/Utilities Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	56
Midsize Enterprise	23
Large Enterprise	34

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Grafana Enterprise Stack?

The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance,...

What needs improvement with Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I am trying to think about its advanced alerting features; we do not use it too much for that. We do get it to report through to our help desk system and if a threshold gets broken, then a ticket i...

What is your primary use case for Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I have switched to a different suite, focusing on customer edge solutions that are mostly Fortinet. To manage it, I use Grafana Enterprise Stack and a whole bunch of tools that we wrote ourselves. ...

What do you like most about Zabbix?

The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?

I think Zabbix is economical, whereas SolarWinds is expensive. SolarWinds has a lot of secure features, but Zabbix is providing everything free of cost. Zabbix is economical, and you can install it...

What needs improvement with Zabbix?

The potential and customization is a little difficult because you have to learn scripts. I think Zabbix needs to improve the customization better. At present, I am satisfied with the functionality ...

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Overview

Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful tool for real-time data monitoring and visualization. With its flexible and scalable features, it is widely used for creating dashboards, analyzing metrics, and gaining insights into infrastructure, databases, and applications.

Its valuable features include powerful visualization capabilities, extensive data source integrations, customizable dashboards, a user-friendly interface, and a robust alerting system. Users appreciate its flexibility, scalability, and ability to integrate with different data sources, making it suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases.

Grafana Labs

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software that provides real-time monitoring and alerting for servers, networks, applications, and services.

It offers a wide range of features including data collection, visualization, and reporting.

With its user-friendly interface and customizable dashboards, Zabbix helps organizations ensure the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure.

Sample Customers

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1. IBM 2. Dell 3. Cisco 4. HP 5. Oracle 6. Microsoft 7. Amazon 8. Google 9. Facebook 10. Twitter 11. LinkedIn 12. Netflix 13. Adobe 14. VMware 15. Salesforce 16. SAP 17. Intel 18. AT&T 19. Verizon 20. T-Mobile 21. Vodafone 22. Ericsson 23. Nokia 24. Siemens 25. General Electric 26. Honeywell 27. Philips 28. Sony 29. Samsung 30. LG 31. Panasonic 32. Toshiba