Instana Infrastructure Monitoring vs Zabbix comparison

"The product's initial setup is easy."

"The product is easy to deploy."

"The implementation process is very straightforward."

"The product is very stable."

"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."

"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."

"In our opinion Zabbix is an amazing monitoring solution which allows for any service or device to be monitored."

"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay."

"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."

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

"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."

"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."

"Look and feel."

"It should be easy to modify the front end."

"As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this."

"Its UI needs to be improved a little bit more so that an end-user is also able to handle it. I can handle it, but others should also be able to handle it in a better way. It becomes complex when we are growing and need to add proxies. We need more scalability features and documentation for different use cases. A lot of articles are available, but they need to be in proper documentation. For example, when you have thousands of servers that have to be monitored in different regions of the world, there should be some kind of documentation to describe how you can create proxies and add them. Sometimes, when you are using the database, it can get overloaded. When the network is growing, the number of transactions becomes very high, and the database gets overloaded. There should be information about how to reduce the load on the MySQL database, which is what Zabbix is using. The market is growing a lot, and it should be enhanced for a lot more things. We are currently bringing enhancements at our end for different use cases. For example, when dockerization is going on, how can we check the logs inside the Dockers. We should also be able to monitor and check the number of logins and add features such as SSO login and two-factor authentication as a protocol. These are the security features and concerns that we have to deal with. Currently, we are developing modules to add features to Zabbix, but they should also work on these features."

"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go."

"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."

"The Java gateway for monitoring Java applications didn’t work for us."

"The solution needs to add remote features."

"The cost of the tool is around 130 USD per month."

"It is free, which allows us to reduce costs."

"It is freeware. We still use the free version of Zabbix."

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

"My manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything."

"This solution is open-source and free to use."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"The solution is free. However, many open-sourced tools start out free but eventually start charging."