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."It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"We like the alert features."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"The product is very stable."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."
"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"The documentation could be improved."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."
"The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API."
"Zabbix can use better documentation and support for troubleshooting."
"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."
"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."
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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