OpsRamp vs Zabbix comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

OpsRamp
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
17th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (4th), AIOps (6th)
Zabbix
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
101
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (10th), Network Monitoring Software (1st), Server Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the market share of OpsRamp is 2.6% and it increased by 96.4% compared to the previous year. The market share of Zabbix is 16.0% and it increased by 14.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Unique Categories:
Event Monitoring
12.4%
AIOps
10.1%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
3.4%
Network Monitoring Software
12.5%
 

Featured Reviews

VA
Jul 6, 2022
User-friendly, mature, efficient, and reasonably priced
There is definitely room for improvement. Not every tool, particularly OpsRamp, is 100 percent accurate. There are two features that I personally recommend the OpsRamp team look into. One example is a mature ITSM product. They currently have an internal ITSM. They also have contracts with third-party vendors such as ServiceNow and Service Desk, where you can integrate those applications into OpsRamp and use ITSM. OpsRamp has its own ITSM platform that if it could or would improve the performance of utilizing or the maturity of that particular ITSM for change management or incident management, it should really help an individual to kill two birds with one shot. Purchasing monitoring and alerting licenses allows them to use ITSM without spending the extra money to integrate other tools such as ServiceNow, or Service Desk, for example. The second area for improvement, in my opinion, is that because they are already cloud-centric, whether it is infrastructure, Azure or AWS, or on-premises platforms, they can create their own self-service portal and tie it up to any cloud in the sense that if I am a vendor who is willing to use any cloud in the future, I can just log into the self-service portal from OpsRamp and go ahead and deploy the resources from the cloud, such as building instances, adding storage, deleting storage, adding security, and so on. A single one-stop-shop for OpsRamp, a self-service portal where you could go ahead and deploy resources, enable monitoring, and create an ITSM portal for it. And, near the end, you can also make it so the patching is all done. It has been planned to be a one-stop-shop for everything. I would like to see two things. The first is a self-service portal for the cloud, any cloud deployments, and the second is maturity validation towards ITSM, internalizing OpsRamp TSM. As a result, instead of integrating with more mature tools similar to ServiceNow, people will use OpsRamp.
Patrice Delavictoire - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 29, 2022
We can fix issues with our network before they become serious problems
Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need. For example, Zabbix can be used for a company monitoring solutions by many vendors. We have only one site and one company, so we can't improve all the possibilities of the software. Zabbix could add some more cybersecurity features. It isn't the same thing because network monitoring isn't the same as security. Still, it could include something like a VPN or firewall with the solution. It's a free software tool traditionally used for monitoring.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The technical support is fantastic, and they are fast to respond."
"The most valuable feature of OpsRamp is the creation of the dashboards of the infrastructure for the CPU memory and SQL servers. Additionally, URL monitoring through Selenium scripting and the availability dashboard is useful."
"The most valuable feature of this solution in my experience, is that the available reporting is quite accurate."
"It greatly assists small and medium-sized businesses in using the ITSM, alerting, and monitoring features."
"We find the products seamless integration with Zendesk to be extremely valuable to our business."
"The most valuable features of OpsRamp include a single pane of glass, event correlation, personalized dashboards, and a single platform solution."
"Most features work fine."
"The feature that we have found most useful are the dashboards, which can be built in minutes using this solution, allowing multiple products, thresholds, or any given required metric to be seen in a single area."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
 

Cons

"An area of improvement would be application monitoring."
"The function to search any particular device within this solution needs to be improved. Currently, the solution develops a lag when a search, or a comparison, is being carried out."
"Automation is currently quite complex and needs to be improved."
"The user interface of this product requires some changes as it is not inclusively user-friendly. For example, the performance indicators are color-based , which means that they are confusing for anyone who is color blind."
"OpsRamp cannot be scaled for big and large company deployments."
"We have 55 AVDs, and patches might roll out to 32-35 initially, with the rest taking a month or so. OpsRamp can't detect them all directly. Since clients want patches applied as soon as possible, we manually patch those remaining devices."
"We would like this solution to be developed into a full CMP tool, so that we are able to use a single product for all of our cloud management needs."
"I would like to see two things. The first is a self-service portal for the cloud, any cloud deployments, and the second is maturity validation towards ITSM, internalizing OpsRamp TSM. As a result, instead of integrating with more mature tools similar to ServiceNow, people will use OpsRamp."
"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."
"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."
"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."
"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."
"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"OpsRamp is a cost-effective solution."
"You pay it for a year and you'll have full access to the entire platform, not only for monitoring and alerting, you will have access to the entire platform, and whatever technology they develop will be made available to you."
"There is an annual licensing fee to use OpsRamp."
"I don't have any idea about the licensing cost for OpsRamp, but I just know that its pricing is based on the resource count for each tenant."
"It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."
"It's free software released under the GNU/GPL license."
"Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."
"The tool's licensing is good."
"The solution is free. However, many open-sourced tools start out free but eventually start charging."
"It is free, which allows us to reduce costs."
"It’s free of cost."
"We were searching for an open source solution and Zabbix fit the bill because it is free and open source under the GPL license."
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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
17%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Insurance Company
8%
Educational Organization
34%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with OpsRamp?
There is room for improvement in the performance of the product. The main problem is with patch management. The actual problem we're facing is with the patch management feature. It's not real-time,...
What do you like most about Zabbix?
The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?
Zabbix's licensing and pricing are good for our needs.
What needs improvement with Zabbix?
To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial. Many environments are shifting away from traditional setups to remote and ...
 

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