We performed a comparison between PRTG Network Monitor 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."PRTG gives us true visibility of the downtime of particular circuit functions. So if a circuit is up but not routing traffic, I will know with this tool. I can write a customized script for a sensor to detect specific things."
"We have asked questions of their technical support and they have a very good response time."
"The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are the threshold notification when certain traffic increases and goes beyond the defined threshold. The up and down status email notifications and other notifications are useful. Additionally, it is user-friendly, and customizable, and there are many features available."
"The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is real-time monitoring."
"It is able to satisfy all our requirements in terms of email notifications and specific errors on the devices."
"The solution is scalable."
"The bandwidth monitoring is a very attractive feature, it can tell you the bandwidth utilization while it is attempting to connect to the host for feedback."
"PRTG is integrated on Windows."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"The solution is stable."
"The basic setup is very easy."
"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."
"The product is very stable."
"It's a flexible solution."
"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"The technical support could respond a little bit quicker."
"The free version only gives us 100 free sensors to use. It would be nice if there was double that."
"In our organization, we encounter performance issues with our PRTG probe service. I saw documentation from the vendor or Paessler mentioning that there are limitations for WMI sensors. Other than that, we are okay with PRTG."
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve by having descriptions for the tab usages. The dashboards or interface could be easier to understand."
"PRTG Network Monitor should improve the NetFlow dashboard, there is no flexibility, and the NetFlow is not meeting the business needs. Additionally, they are missing part of the configuration management."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve by adding prevention and detection features."
"When using PRTG Network Monitor it is beneficial if you have prior experience with it, the user interface could improve."
"More training videos for installing and configuring this software would have been nice, especially when working with a lot of devices."
"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."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
"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."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"The event correlation could be better."
"The stability could be better."
"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."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
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PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 6th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 42 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 41 reviews. PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "Good even for beginners, and cost-wise, it isn't that expensive, but its sensors and web GUI need improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, Centreon, SCOM and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Centreon, Splunk and SolarWinds NPM. See our PRTG Network Monitor vs. Zabbix report.
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