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."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"It is considerably cheaper compared to other tools."
"The ability to quickly identify downtime is the most valuable."
"We found that it was easy to operate, and it was simple if anyone has entry-level working experience or even if someone is not experienced."
"Technical support is very helpful with our upgrades."
"The biggest thing for me is that it provided enough information for me to monitor. It alerts and provides you with the information you need."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"The initial setup was very quick. The first time it was long because I didn't know it yet. I was only using Windows. The first time was very difficult because of the operating system."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Each model has different features, so clients need to purchase a separate model for SQL monitoring, database monitoring, network traffic analyzer, HTTP traffic, etc. So each feature they need is in a different model, but customers would prefer an all-in-one solution."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved. We would like to divide the dashboards to give a clear view to our management team to show what we have and what deficiencies exist in our network."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve the graphics of the interface and more customized reporting."
"The solution does not offer much customization so is somewhat inflexible."
"The reporting module that got integrated into the system itself, used to be a standalone solution and I preferred that."
"They have had a rather large security breach in the past. It's cost some companies customers."
"In terms of scalability, there is room for improvement. When you start monitoring, if you have so many interfaces and you're trying to monitor them at a faster interval, or a shorter interval, you get to a point where you need to request another node."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"The event correlation 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."
"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 should be easy to modify the front end."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"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."
"The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
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