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We performed a comparison between Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring 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.
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Pros
"The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs.""It can monitor, get the data, and then report on the data.""It is a great resource for us because we have so many different data sources and to be able to aggregate that and put it through a concise dashboard or an alert really helps.""The data collection from our VMs, containers, databases, and backend components is valuable.""It's a very easy-to-use solution.""The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to get information about all of the security measurements in my environment.""The features I have found most valuable are log searching and log analytics, both of which are quick features.""The most valuable thing that we have seen within our group is the ability to ingest all this raw data and have it organized in a certain way so that different groups can get effective alerting from this massive amount of raw data that is out there."

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"It can send messages to our ticketing system.""The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems.""The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable.""Zabbix helps to save time.""The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools.""Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources.""The most valuable feature is monitoring.""The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."

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Cons
"The price has room for improvement.""It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers.""Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns.""The product collects a lot of data but it does not assure that it collects all of it.""It does not have a user-friendly interface and it is difficult to use.""The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures.""The deployment can be quite complex.""The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."

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"The solution needs to add remote features.""The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional.""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 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.""When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible.""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 graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The product is a bit expensive considering the competition but the company may negotiate the price."
  • "This is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution's pricing is competitive. I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten. The price of the solution could be cheaper."
  • "Splunk has been fairly expensive, but it has been predictable."
  • "I would rate the price of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring as an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."
  • "I am not in that circle, but we are currently licensing based on our queries. That is working out for us. Previously, it was by volume of data, and now, we can store as much data as we want."
  • "It is expensive."
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  • "It’s free of cost."
  • "It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."
  • "The product is an open source and free solution."
  • "It's free software released under the GNU/GPL license."
  • "There are no licenses."
  • "We’re using the free version, which covers all our current needs."
  • "It is free, which allows us to reduce costs."
  • "I was using the free, Community Edition."
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    Anonymous User
    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 using these, but they require quite some expertise before you can use them. Then there are the ones that are not open source, the enterprise softwares and cost you some money, but on the other hand, they are extremely easy to set-up and learn. You can have them up and running in a matter of minutes. And then there are those which are completely cloud based. They can be free of cost or charge some money depending on the software. The good thing about these is that you don’t have to install any extra software, and it can be managed completely online but then again these have limited features and you cannot exploit them to the full extent as you can do with the open-source and to some extent the enterprise software, so I won’t suggest you to use these, because these are generally not the complete solutions and require other support software to achieve the same. Below I have listed the outstanding pros and cons of the various Network analyzers that you can look into Nagios Pros: Nagios offers an extensive set of collector plug-ins that allows users to gather performance and availability data from a broad range of operating systems, including  Windows and Netware Nagios… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I find the monitoring console very helpful. With one click, I can see how we are performing, and at the same time, I can see what data is flowing.
    Top Answer:The clustering part of indexes can be more refined. They can cut down a bit at the monetary level for the long-time customers. We recently had a scenario where we were in discussions to see if there… more »
    Top Answer:In terms of customization and integration, we have more flexibility. We can automate configurations, define deletion rules, and customize based on the needs. The client interface allows for further… more »
    Top Answer:Zabbix itself is free, but professional support is paid. They have different pricing tiers based on the category and enterprise level. You can find the detailed pricing policy on their website.
    Top Answer: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. This leads to… more »
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    Also Known As
    Splunk Insights for Infrastructure
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    Overview

    Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers features including, Instant visualization, real-time actionable alerts, centralized enterprise controls, and scalability. 

    Instant visualization

    Get fast time to value with over 250+ cloud service integrations and pre-built dashboards out of the box for rapid, full-stack visualization. Autodiscover, break down, group, and explore clouds, services and systems in minutes.

    Real-time actionable alerts

    Act before infrastructure performance affects end-user experience. Instantly detect and accurately alerts on dynamic thresholds, multiple conditions and complex rules to eliminate alert storms and dramatically reduce MTTD/MTTR.

    Centralized, enterprise controls

    Answer business-critical questions in context and monitor service-level objectives and indicators instantly. Track custom metrics for business KPIs to token based access and usage controls.

    Scale with confidence

    Troubleshoot across thousands of microservices, multiple ephemeral deployments, application versions and billions of events. Release better apps faster and drive closed-loop automation for a flawless end-user experience.

    Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software that provides real-time monitoring and alerting for servers, networks, applications, and services. 

    It offers a wide range of features including data collection, visualization, and reporting. 

    With its user-friendly interface and customizable dashboards, Zabbix helps organizations ensure the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure.

    Sample Customers
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    1. IBM 2. Dell 3. Cisco 4. HP 5. Oracle 6. Microsoft 7. Amazon 8. Google 9. Facebook 10. Twitter 11. LinkedIn 12. Netflix 13. Adobe 14. VMware 15. Salesforce 16. SAP 17. Intel 18. AT&T 19. Verizon 20. T-Mobile 21. Vodafone 22. Ericsson 23. Nokia 24. Siemens 25. General Electric 26. Honeywell 27. Philips 28. Sony 29. Samsung 30. LG 31. Panasonic 32. Toshiba
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    Healthcare Company20%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
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    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company24%
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    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise28%
    Large Enterprise40%
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    Small Business19%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring vs. Zabbix
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring vs. Zabbix and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 14th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 23 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 96 reviews. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, ITRS Geneos, Cisco Intersight, Nagios XI and ControlUp, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core. See our Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring vs. Zabbix report.

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