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LogicMonitor vs Zabbix comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.3
LogicMonitor enhanced efficiency and productivity by reducing costs, false alerts, and downtime, improving service quality and decision-making.
Sentiment score
7.3
Zabbix, free and open-source, reduces downtime and costs, improving network stability and significant enterprise savings.
The return is more of value and savings in preventing costly downtime, making the savings of about $60,000 which we would have lost without LogicMonitor, and in IT staff efficiency, we save approximately 15 hours a week.
I can definitely notice a difference in our posture, uptime, and ability to solve problems and resolve outages much quicker since we have had LogicMonitor in place.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.7
LogicMonitor support is efficient and knowledgeable, offering 24/7 service with varied levels, including premium, but faces regional service differences.
Sentiment score
6.8
Zabbix users praise supportive documentation, community forums, and responsive technical support despite occasional time zone challenges and free version reliance.
Customer support is on point and very well trained.
Customer support is good, but escalations within customer support are not so good.
The product mostly just works without issues.
It is so straightforward that I have never had to use the support.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
LogicMonitor ensures efficient scaling and growth support with smooth onboarding, automation, despite some limitations in widgets and data collection.
Sentiment score
6.9
Zabbix is highly scalable, excels in diverse environments, but large deployments may require database optimization for efficient performance.
They are not licensed, so you could deploy one collector or 1,000 collectors for the same cost.
LogicMonitor scales well
Zabbix has high scalability.
Zabbix is very scalable and lightweight.
I would rate its scalability ten out of ten.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
LogicMonitor is praised for its stability, minimal outages, seamless operation, proactive updates, and strong performance across infrastructures.
Sentiment score
7.5
Zabbix is reliable and resource-efficient, performing well with database tuning and handling heavy workloads without crashing.
It is very stable. I have never seen LogicMonitor itself go down.
Zabbix is very scalable and lightweight.
Zabbix is quite stable, and we haven't had any problems with Zabbix itself.
 

Room For Improvement

Users seek enhanced logic, customization, automation, mobile experiences, integration, deployment clarity, and logging in LogicMonitor.
Zabbix users seek improved UI, automation, integration, and customization with enhanced reporting, security, and scalability for non-technical users.
I wish the user interface would be customizable to allow users to create personal context-specific workspaces to hide irrelevant data, rather than trying to have a one-size-fits-all interface.
The container monitoring seems to be really behind compared to some bespoke cloud-native monitoring solutions that are designed around Kubernetes, containers, and ephemeral environments.
LogicMonitor can be improved by having more meetings with customers to find out what they really need.
The only issue I can note is that it's Linux-based, and Linux documentation is not the best.
 

Setup Cost

LogicMonitor provides affordable enterprise pricing based on devices, though cloud licensing can be confusing and costly for large deployments.
Zabbix is cost-effective and flexible, offering open-source monitoring with no licensing fees, low expenses, and optional support costs.
I experienced no issues with pricing, setup cost, and licensing; it was very transparent, and the licensing model is very clear and easy to understand.
 

Valuable Features

LogicMonitor excels in customizable dashboards, flexible data monitoring, effective alerts, reporting, and integration, offering comprehensive control and ease of use.
Zabbix is valued for open-source customization, scalability, comprehensive monitoring, alerting systems, and cost-effective enterprise IT management.
The dynamic alerting and root cause analysis have helped us fix issues before they cause a full-blown outage or degrade performance for end users.
I wrote a custom event source which queries the API periodically. It looks for new entries into our cage, and if it finds one, it creates a LogicMonitor alert that gets delivered to all proper stakeholders.
LogicMonitor has expanded our view of our systems and has reduced our mean time to resolution, as now engineers that work on specific issues are able to very quickly identify what the cause is.
If disk usage surpasses a threshold, say 70%, I receive alerts and can take proactive action.
Zabbix is Linux-based open-source software, and the main use case is to reduce costs.
Zabbix has a lot of features, including monitoring, status updates, and collecting information telemetry from storages and servers as well.
 

Categories and Ranking

LogicMonitor
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
27th
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
24th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
23rd
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
18th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
Container Monitoring (7th), AIOps (13th)
Zabbix
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
9th
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
1st
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
1st
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
107
Ranking in other categories
Server Monitoring (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of LogicMonitor is 1.7%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zabbix is 10.1%, down from 11.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Zabbix10.1%
LogicMonitor1.7%
Other88.2%
Network Monitoring Software
 

Featured Reviews

Maxwell Miya - PeerSpot reviewer
Has improved service reliability and reduced downtime by providing full visibility into infrastructure
I wish the user interface would be customizable to allow users to create personal context-specific workspaces to hide irrelevant data, rather than trying to have a one-size-fits-all interface. This would go a long way, as would introducing a usage-based pricing model for data ingestion, per GB of metrics or logs alongside a device-based model similar to New Relic, which would be more attractive for cloud-native companies with dynamic infrastructure. While dynamic alerting is great, the overall alerting system can be complex to configure. If LogicMonitor looks into going beyond the topology-based correlation to include AI that can group related alerts from different parts of the stack into a single probable cause incident, that will significantly improve the system.
B Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables seamless global client monitoring with reliable remote connectivity
I use the solution to provide a perfect environment for remote connectivity with my clients. Many tools that I require for system maintenance are included. I can easily monitor all of my clients throughout the world I did not give much thought to it, however, improvements could be made to Zabbix.…
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Comparison Review

it_user174738 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 31, 2015
Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor
I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business53
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise34
 

Questions from the Community

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
It actually depends on the exact purpose or requirements. Some tools are better for only network devices while others are better from a cloud monitoring or APM monitoring perspective. You can check...
What do you like most about LogicMonitor?
LogicMonitor helps us prevent potential downtime. It's pretty good. It generates low-level warnings that aren't necessarily preemptive but can still alert us to issues we should investigate. These ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LogicMonitor?
The pricing can vary yearly or monthly, depending on the clients we're working with and their size and scale. For example, the pricing for a customer with ten thousand licenses versus a hundred lic...
What do you like most about Zabbix?
The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration.
What needs improvement with Zabbix?
The reporting is lacking because this is an open-source tool, and nowadays, management's expectation is that the reports should be of high quality and every information should be presented in a con...
 

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