We performed a comparison between Icinga and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Zabbix, LogicMonitor and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The value of Icinga is that it has hundreds of plugins, so it's really easy to monitor pretty much anything."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"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."
"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."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"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."
"In general, the product does not look good. However, it does what it is supposed to do. So, the improvements should focus on usability and UI."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"The user interface could be better."
"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."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"The stability could be better."
"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."
"It could be more stable."
Icinga is ranked 43rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 1 review while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 41 reviews. Icinga is rated 7.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Icinga writes "Huge spectrum of plugins enable the monitoring of different technologies but UI/UX could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". Icinga is most compared with Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Centreon, PRTG Network Monitor and Checkmk, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Centreon, Splunk and Amazon CloudWatch.
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