Instana Infrastructure Monitoring vs Zabbix comparison

"The product is easy to deploy."

"The product's initial setup is easy."

"The product is very stable."

"The solution is stable."

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

"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."

"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"

"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."

"The most valuable feature is service assurance."

"The resource usage, CPU utilization, disk usage, network monitoring, network performance, and alerting features are invaluable."

"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."

"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."

"There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast."

"The only issue we have had with Zabbix is when we decided to make an update or upgrade."

"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."

"Its UI needs to be improved a little bit more so that an end-user is also able to handle it. I can handle it, but others should also be able to handle it in a better way. It becomes complex when we are growing and need to add proxies. We need more scalability features and documentation for different use cases. A lot of articles are available, but they need to be in proper documentation. For example, when you have thousands of servers that have to be monitored in different regions of the world, there should be some kind of documentation to describe how you can create proxies and add them. Sometimes, when you are using the database, it can get overloaded. When the network is growing, the number of transactions becomes very high, and the database gets overloaded. There should be information about how to reduce the load on the MySQL database, which is what Zabbix is using. The market is growing a lot, and it should be enhanced for a lot more things. We are currently bringing enhancements at our end for different use cases. For example, when dockerization is going on, how can we check the logs inside the Dockers. We should also be able to monitor and check the number of logins and add features such as SSO login and two-factor authentication as a protocol. These are the security features and concerns that we have to deal with. Currently, we are developing modules to add features to Zabbix, but they should also work on these features."

"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."

"The documentation could be improved."

"It should be easy to modify the front end."

"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."

"The cost of the tool is around 130 USD per month."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"It is reasonable."

"We purchased Zabbix for a good price, including support"

"It is open source. If you want to have a subscription or official support, you can pay for it. They have different plans, which are not that expensive. The plans are based on per monitoring server, not per monitored equipment. So, it is not at all expensive, and you can also live without the support if you want a cheaper option."

"We pay the subscription for support by year."

"It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."

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

"Zabbix is a free solution but the support contact costs money."