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 gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"It is a stable solution."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"In terms of customization and integration, we have more flexibility. We can automate configurations, define deletion rules, and customize based on the needs. The client interface allows for further configuration, making it quite comprehensive."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"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."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually. For example, if we collect a report file every day and want to send it to a moderator for review. We are expecting this feature to come out soon but it would be valuable to have now."
"The product could be more secure and more stable."
"The stability could be better."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"It should be easy to modify the front end."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
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 100 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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