We performed a comparison between Icinga and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Zabbix, Auvik 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."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"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."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."
"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."
"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."
"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"In terms of user-friendliness, large maps could be more interactive. We should be able to click on some areas and move some objects. It would make it simpler to see things while analyzing some dedicated parameters."
"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."
"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."
"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great."
Icinga is ranked 46th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 1 review while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 42 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 Core, Nagios XI, Centreon, PRTG Network Monitor and Checkmk, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Centreon, Splunk and Amazon CloudWatch.
See our list of best IT Infrastructure Monitoring vendors and best Network Monitoring Software vendors.
We monitor all IT Infrastructure Monitoring reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
