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We performed a comparison between Icinga 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Icinga vs. Zabbix Report (Updated: May 2023).
708,461 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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  • "We're using the free version of Icinga."
  • "Even though Icinga's financial cost is low, it is an expensive product regarding the resources required to maintain and operate it."
  • "The solution is free to use."
  • "The solution is cheap."
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  • "There is a license required for this solution and we pay annually for our 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."
  • "It is reasonable."
  • "There is no license but we need to pay for support."
  • "The solution is free to use but they offer support as a paid service. If you can go read the manuals and do the fine-tuning based on your needs, you do not need to pay anything and you will have a full solution."
  • "Zabbix and Grafana are both open source products, we only needed to go to their website and download the application and we began to use them. The solutions are free."
  • "This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."
  • "We pay the subscription for support by year."
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    Top Answer:Icinga does the job and is fairly stable.
    Top Answer:Even though Icinga's financial cost is low, it is an expensive product regarding the resources required to maintain and… more »
    Top Answer:Icinga’s automation could be improved.
    Top Answer:Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool.
    Top Answer:Zabbix is an open-source tool, and it's free to use.
    Top Answer:The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database. Finding customized… more »
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    Overview

    The Juniper Mist Premium Analytics cloud service offers network visibility and business intelligence to drive your digital transformation journey. This service provides insights into your network and business operations while overcoming the complex challenges associated with the influx of big data from the multitude of networks and clients.

    Icinga monitors infrastructures of all sizes with the integrated cluster system secured by SSL, Integrates with DevOps tools and uses an object based configuration or provision on users' monitoring code through the REST API. Icinga has a lightweight and extensible web interface to keep an eye on your environment and provides modules that extend the functionality of Icinga Web 2. Additionally, it offers a fully preconfigured monitoring stack or just add an external perspective.

    Zabbix is a free software tool traditionally used for monitoring your organization’s IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services. Zabbix makes it possible for you to maintain control of your infrastructure by collecting any metric from any source. The solution also offers agentless monitoring, synthetic monitoring, custom collection methods, and data transformation.

    Zabbix offers:

    • Network monitoring
    • Server monitoring
    • Cloud monitoring
    • Application monitoring
    • Service monitoring

    Zabbix Features

    Zabbix has many valuable key features, including:

    Action Log, Anomaly Detection, Auditing, Automated Actions, Availability Reports, Capacity Planning, Custom Scripts, Custom Templates, Data Retrieval, Drill-Down Reports, Encryption, Event Correlation, History Data Analysis, Metric Collection, Multiple Authentication Methods, Multiple Severity Levels, Native WMI Support for Windows Agent, Network Discovery, Notifications, Root Cause Analysis, Trend Prediction, WMI Support, Web Services Widget-based Dashboards, Zero-Maintenance

    Zabbix Benefits

    There are several benefits to implementing Zabbix. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Flexible deployment options: Zabbix can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud to help you stay fully in control of your data.

    • Unlimited scalability: Zabbix is scalable to any infrastructure. It can easily scale for your personal home, or can scale for a large enterprise environment.

    • Ready-to-use templates: Zabbix comes with ready-to-use templates which makes it easy to integrate with systems you already use.

    • External vault: Zabbix enables you to keep your data secure and safe by providing an external vault storage option.

    • High availability: By using Zabbix’s high availability solution, you can negate the risk of data loss and gain 24/7 uptime.

    • Partner and vendor-backed: The solution is backed by 250+ global partners and multiple external vendors, giving you confidence in the solution.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Zabbix users.

    PeerSpot user Shibu B., Regional Manager/ Service Delivery at ASPL Info Services, says, "The solution is quite mature and very stable. The monitoring capabilities of the product are excellent.” He also adds, “The solution is very easy to scale and the product is open-source, meaning there aren't any licensing costs associated with it.”

    Julian L., Senior Specialist Critical Infrastructure at an educational organization, comments that the solution is “A complete solution that doesn't cost anything, does what I need it to do, and has easy-to-use templates and very good scalability.” He also mentions “The agents are pretty cool. They're easy to roll out. The standard out-of-the-box templates are also pretty easy to use. The integration with other learning products is also good.”

    Faycal N., CEO/Founder at Zen Networks, praises the product, mentioning, “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."

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    Puppet Labs, Audi, Spacex, Debian, Snapdeal, McGill, RIPE Network Coordination Centre
    Bodybuilding.com, LLC., ITtelligent Consulting Services,Eltele AS, Total Server Solutions, LLC., ChinaNetCloud
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company22%
    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Aerospace/Defense Firm8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization19%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Government8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business49%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise32%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise51%
    Buyer's Guide
    Icinga vs. Zabbix
    May 2023
    Find out what your peers are saying about Icinga vs. Zabbix and other solutions. Updated: May 2023.
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    Icinga is ranked 27th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 7 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 40 reviews. Icinga is rated 7.4, while Zabbix is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Icinga writes "Useful for monitoring infrastructure devices like network devices, firewalls, and servers, but support isn't very responsive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". Icinga is most compared with Checkmk, Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Centreon and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Splunk Enterprise Security, Centreon and SCOM. See our Icinga vs. Zabbix report.

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