Centerity Monitor vs Zabbix comparison

Centerity Systems and Zabbix are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Centerity Systems is ranked #66, while Zabbix is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4. Centerity Systems holds a 0.2% mindshare in IM, compared to Zabbix’s 12.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Centerity Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Zabbix users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Zabbix and Centerity Monitor compete in network and infrastructure monitoring. Zabbix is favored for cost-effectiveness, while Centerity Monitor has an edge with comprehensive features despite a higher price.

Features: Zabbix provides scalability, strong community support, and flexibility through open-source solutions. Centerity Monitor offers built-in predictive analytics, a unified dashboard, and extensive features that cater to integrated monitoring needs.

Room for Improvement: Zabbix relies on external plugins for advanced analytics, has a steeper learning curve for new users, and may need enhancements in user interface design. Centerity Monitor could improve on cost efficiency, expand integration options for third-party tools, and enhance documentation for user guidance.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zabbix benefits from extensive documentation and an active community, facilitating straightforward deployment and troubleshooting. Centerity Monitor offers a streamlined deployment process and integrated customer service, providing organizations with personalized support.

Pricing and ROI: Zabbix has zero license cost, making it cost-efficient for budget-conscious infrastructures, with potential for lower operational costs over time. Centerity Monitor, requiring a higher initial investment, delivers a comprehensive feature set that can result in a higher ROI in environments needing advanced insights.

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Categories and Ranking

Centerity Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

66th

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zabbix

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

104

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (9th), Network Monitoring Software (1st), Server Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Centerity Monitor is 0.2%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zabbix is 12.8%, up from 12.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Andean Region Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

A user-friendly solution that comes with a valuable machine learning feature

We use Centerity to monitor some business views related with ERP systems. For example we use this monitor to mesure electronic billing process. As a part of digital Transformation process coporation automates some process to avoid delays and human mistakes and we incorporated Centerity Platform to…

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ASM Naushad Alam

Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes

We have not yet purchased the commercial version so have a lack of technical ability. We do not yet fully know the key points or key features of the solution. We just use what we use along with WhatsUp Gold. Based on our use only, stability is rated a seven out of ten.

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

Pros

"The machine learning feature is valuable."

"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."

"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."

"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."

"We use Zabbix to monitor our organization's IT infrastructure and workstations. We don't use Microsoft Intune since it's expensive. The tool's real-time alerting system has proved crucial for us, particularly when a new device joins a network that is not one of our own devices. It notifies us about the presence of this new device, allowing us to investigate further. Additionally, it alerts us about disk usage, memory usage, and the software installed on the machine."

"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."

"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."

"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."

"The most valuable function for me is the auto-discovery of interfaces in devices. When you integrate devices into the tool, it automatically finds the interfaces, which is very helpful for my job. Integration and configuration run smoothly in my experience with Juniper and Aruba devices."

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Cons

"They can improve the functionality that provides some numbers related to the behavior of the metrics."

"The solution needs to add remote features."

"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."

"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."

"The user interface could be better."

"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."

"One of the things we don't like is that Zabbix has a license structure with a price that is high compared to the competition. It's very high, for example, compared to something like Microsoft Teams."

"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."

"It could be more stable."

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"Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."

"It is reasonable."

"We use the open-source version of Zabbix."

"We were searching for an open source solution and Zabbix fit the bill because it is free and open source under the GPL license."

"This solution is completely open-source, so it is quite affordable."

"It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."

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

"We’re using the free version, which covers all our current needs."

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IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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…

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What do you like most about Zabbix?

The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?

I use the tool's free version.

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What needs improvement with Zabbix?

I'm using the free version of Zabbix, and I'd like to see more customization options, especially for setting trigger thresholds.

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Centerity Systems

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Overview

Centerity is the pioneer provider of an All-in-One, IT Monitoring and Business Service Management (BSM) platform. Whereas legacy tools have focused on monitoring individual technologies which led to silos of performance data, Centerity breaks down silos by extending its monitoring coverage across all technology layers, from infrastructure (physical, virtual, converged, AWS, etc.) to applications (OS, SAP, Cloudera, etc.) and databases (SAP HANA, Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.), thereby providing an integrated, holistic view of system health, performance and availability. Centerity’s unique, unified platform, named a Gartner Cool Vendor in ITOM, can serve the needs of both IT executives and administrators while providing a complete business intelligence layer across all IT assets via cross technical and functional domain impact and trend analysis through its Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities.

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

Centerity Systems has thousands of customers world wide, including Fortune 500 Enterprises such as Cisco, General Electric, Siemens, Harris Corporation, and Coca-Cola.

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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