We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Zabbix based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In this comparison, Zabbix comes out slightly ahead because it is open-source whereas SolarWinds NPM is not.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"A product that is well-tested and trusted in demanding situations."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"The most valuable features in SolarWinds NPM are the network search and diagnostic tools."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Consolidation of platforms would provide a smoother experience."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"The solution is not always good with new features, so it's take a long time."
"The only real caveat that we have or that I have an issue with is when I go on vacation, it's a little hard for me to go and modify alerts so that I don't get alerted about things when I'm on vacation."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"This product could improve by adding cloud monitoring. I want SolarWinds NPM to do much more integration, and have more involvement in cloud monitoring, like AWS or Google, or Azure. I feel like it requires lots of improvement for cloud monitoring in NPM."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"In the next release, I'm hoping for features targeted towards larger users with more customizable options. Despite this, I think pre-canned reports that can be used straight out of the box would be beneficial rather than having to configure each report individually. Additionally, a deeper dive into software configurations on the machines would be useful, although I understand there may be challenges in implementing this due to scripting requirements. More documentation would also be appreciated."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."
"It should be easy to modify the front end."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes, Entuity and LogicMonitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI and Amazon CloudWatch. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. Zabbix report.
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Hello ,
just to let you know about my modest contribution, indeed its two tools are very practical: The choice of one of the solutions depends on two factors:
- The price and the competence of the system administrators
Zabbix is a free tool and requires a strong Linux, Scripting skill for all that is custom supervision. integration with third-party tools ( Grafana Dashbord , Ticketing Tools ...)
Solarwinds is very intuitive and complete (reporting, view, resources, NOC view) all its features are integrated and easily configurable.
Regards
Arsène