We performed a comparison between Grafana and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution can scale well."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"I'm supervising all the IT departments, and Zabbix seems quite good for them. It provides graphics and information in real time. We get alerts about crashes on the system, enabling us to quickly repair issues. We can easily find devices with problems."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"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."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The solution allows for good integration with other products."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"The formatting could be better."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc."
"It could be more stable."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
"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."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"The stability could be better."
"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."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Grafana vs. Zabbix report.
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