IBM Instana Observability vs Zabbix comparison

"The solution has a one-second resolution, giving you the status of your application within one second."

"The most valuable features of IBM Instana are its quick data collection and analytics after installing the agent."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is performance."

"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."

"Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements."

"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."

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

"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."

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

"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."

"One area that requires improvement is related to the automation part, specifically automated actions like sending SMS."

"The solution should include log management and improve reporting and integration with Cognos."

"The product's initial setup phase is not very easy."

"Its UI should be improved. They did some improvements in version 5, but it could benefit from some more work. Its integrations should also be improved. They've been active for one year, and they seem to have noticed that. It has new integrations, but it could benefit from more integrations. As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this."

"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'm using the free version of Zabbix, and I'd like to see more customization options, especially for setting trigger thresholds."

"The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."

"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 user interface could be better."

"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."

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

"The tool's cost is normal as per the market. The tool is not expensive."

"The solution's pricing is reasonable compared to that of its competitors like Dynatrace."

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

"Zabbix is an open-source tool, and it's free to use."

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

"It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation."

"For pricing, it's free. We don't pay anything for it. They open-source the code, and people pay for support."

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

"I was using the free, Community Edition."

"Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."