We performed a comparison between AppDynamics 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."The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us... Most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We have highly scalable systems and AppDynamics will help us monitor our load on-prem. Our systems range from simple to the most complex and it gives us the visibility across transactions, in one dashboard."
"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."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"The infrastructure is not as good as other solutions."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"It needs strengthening in the database tiers."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."
"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."
"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
"Zabbix can use better documentation and support for troubleshooting."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 100 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our AppDynamics vs. Zabbix report.
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