Splunk APM vs Zabbix comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Zabbix and Splunk APM are leading solutions in the monitoring space. Splunk APM seems to have an upper hand due to its advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities.

Features: Zabbix offers robust monitoring capabilities, flexibility, and customizability. Splunk APM provides advanced analytics, deep insights into application performance, and strong machine learning capabilities.

Room for Improvement:Zabbix needs a more intuitive configuration process, fewer false positives, and enhanced integration with third-party tools. Splunk APM needs improvement in third-party tool integration, reduced data ingestion costs, and a simpler configuration process.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Zabbix is simple to deploy with good documentation but has a learning curve. Splunk APM’s deployment is complex, but it offers highly rated customer support.

Pricing and ROI:Zabbix is cost-effective with low setup costs and quicker time-to-value. Splunk APM, despite its higher price, offers powerful features and strong ROI in long-term operational efficiency.

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Splunk APM vs. Zabbix

December 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Splunk APM

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

13th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zabbix

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

103

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (1st), Server Monitoring (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd)

Featured Reviews

Lakshmi Padaga

Java Developer at U.S. Bank

Collaborates performance metrics with log data to pinpoint the exact cause of issues and offers error detection

Splunk APM is a robust tool with many capabilities. There are always areas for potential improvement to enhance its functionality and user experience. For Splunk APM, there could be simplified navigation, like streamlining the user interface to make navigation more intuitive for our users, especially those new to APM, which can enhance usability. We can provide more customization options for dashboards and visualizations to help users tailor the platform to their specific needs. There could be more integration capabilities with a wider range of third-party tools and platforms would also be beneficial. By focusing on these areas, Splunk APM can enhance its value proposition, improve user satisfaction, and better meet the evolving needs of organizations monitoring their application performance.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."

"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."

"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."

"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."

"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."

"Detectors are a powerful feature."

"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."

"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."

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"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."

"The most valuable feature is monitoring."

"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."

"The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."

"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."

"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."

"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."

"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."

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Cons

"The cardinality is pretty low."

"There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available. We sometimes encountered issues in setting up alerts."

"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."

"There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available."

"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."

"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."

"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."

"There are always areas for potential improvement to enhance its functionality and user experience."

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"The user interface could be better."

"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."

"Documentation terminology could be improved."

"There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc."

"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."

"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."

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

"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. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is reasonable."

"Splunk APM is expensive."

"It appears to be expensive compared to competitors."

"The pricing is based on several factors, including the scale of deployment."

"Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable."

"The price of Slunk APM is less than some of its competitors."

"Splunk APM is a very cost-efficient solution."

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

"It is open source. If you want to have a subscription or official support, you can pay for it. They have different plans, which are not that expensive. The plans are based on per monitoring server, not per monitored equipment. So, it is not at all expensive, and you can also live without the support if you want a cheaper option."

"For pricing, it's free. We don't pay anything for it. They open-source the code, and people pay for support."

"I was using the free, Community Edition."

"The product is an open source and free solution."

"Zabbix is an open-source tool, and it's free to use."

"We pay the subscription for support by year."

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

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it_user174738

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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Retailer

11%

Educational Organization

39%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SignalFx?

The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.

What needs improvement with SignalFx?

There is room for improvement in the alerting system, which is complicated and has less documentation available. We sometimes encountered issues in setting up alerts. The custom detector could be m...

What is your primary use case for SignalFx?

The main purpose of using Splunk APM is to optimize our application. We use Splunk APM primarily to understand how the application works, how it uses resources, and its response time in connection ...

What do you like most about Zabbix?

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

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?

I use the tool's free version.

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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Overview

Splunk APM is a comprehensive application performance monitoring solution that provides real-time insights into the performance and availability of your applications.

It offers end-to-end visibility across the entire application stack, from the front-end user experience to the back-end infrastructure. With Splunk APM, you can proactively identify and resolve performance issues, optimize application performance, and ensure a seamless user experience.

Splunk APM leverages machine learning and AI-powered analytics to automatically detect anomalies and provide actionable insights. The product supports a wide range of programming languages and frameworks, making it suitable for both monolithic and microservices-based architectures. It also integrates seamlessly with other Splunk products, allowing you to correlate APM data with logs, metrics, and other operational data for a holistic view of your application environment.

With its intuitive interface and powerful features, Splunk APM empowers developers, operations teams, and business stakeholders to deliver high-performing applications and drive better business outcomes.

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.

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