SolarWinds Pingdom vs Zabbix comparison

"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."

"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"

"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."

"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."

"The basic setup is very easy."

"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."

"Health and communication links availability."

"Zabbix is good for discovery."

"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."

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

"Zabbix is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."

"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."

"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."

"I would like to see better integration with other products."

"Technical support could use some improvement."

"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."

"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."

"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."

"The stability could be better."

"Documentation terminology could be improved."

"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."

"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."

"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."

"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."

"This price of this solution is reasonable."

"The license was paid yearly and included technical support."

"While I wouldn't describe it as excessively expensive, if you require specific and reliable monitoring, SolarWinds can be a suitable option. The advantage is that SolarWinds offers a free version as well. If you don't heavily rely on its monitoring capabilities and are content with its basic features, the free version could suffice for your needs."

"This solution is open-source and free to use."

"It is free, which allows us to reduce costs."

"It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation."

"I use the tool's free version."

"There is a license required for this solution and we pay annually for our license."

"If you have 20,000 hosts, the support costs around €95,000 for a year."

"For pricing, it's free. We don't pay anything for it. They open-source the code, and people pay for support."

"We are using the free, open-source version."