We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard 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: Despite the fact that Zabbix is free, Meraki Dashboard is the winner in this comparison. It is a robust and high-performing solution that received high marks for its single management pane. In contrast, Zabbix users feel that it isn’t very user-friendly.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"We greatly utilize the network because we can plug it into the DNS, VPN, or equipment. It's very good. Meraki Dashboard enhances wireless network management. We appreciate its flexibility, as it allows for easy suite configuration. We can handle everything on there when there's a policy or any other requirement."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the single pane of glass that gives you multisite visibility."
"It's a scalable solution."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"It is very easy to manage. It has good security, and it is working well with our firewall."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"Zabbix is scalable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Price could be reduced."
"What we would like from the IT perspective is a lot more granular control, more visibility into the packets, into the routing, and things of that nature."
"It's a very complex system. Customers have told me that sometimes there are lots of advanced features that are available and that you can change in the dashboard, but sometimes it's very hard to know what they are."
"There needs to be more improvement on the device-connected interface."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"The product is missing a VPN and it is a major issue when it comes to deployment."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"Some features could be added."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"It could be more stable."
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
"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."
"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 solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 100 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. Zabbix report.
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