We compared Zabbix and Amazon CloudWatch across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Zabbix's setup can vary in ease and complexity, requiring technical expertise and knowledge of Linux and programming. However, it offers extensive features, customization options, and a free open-source version. On the other hand, Amazon CloudWatch has an easy and straightforward setup process, user-friendly interface, and good technical support. It is highly valued for its simplicity, stability, scalability, and integration with other AWS services. However, it has limitations in monitoring application performance and generating reports. Pricing-wise, Zabbix is free and open-source, while CloudWatch's pricing is considered reasonable.
"We can set CPU thresholds using the solution."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"Most of it's around optimizing utilization, their cloud utilization. They're making sure that they're getting the most out of their in-cloud environments and their instances. Making sure that there's no strange behavior in the environment."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI."
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon CloudWatch is that it gives you detailed information, which I found helpful because it can even provide you with data for the past one minute, which is quite granular. That was what helped me most in terms of finding the root causes. Task automation is another valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"I'm supervising all the IT departments, and Zabbix seems quite good for them. It provides graphics and information in real time. We get alerts about crashes on the system, enabling us to quickly repair issues. We can easily find devices with problems."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The product is very stable."
"The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"There is room for improvement in terms of stability."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"The configuration capabilities could be better."
"It is hard to configure; it is not a straightforward tool."
"The technical support must be improved."
"The product’s documentation must be improved."
"Better reporting is always something needed. That could be an answer to just about anything. But you always want better reporting, better dashboards, things that are just more dynamic and more accessible."
"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"Zabbix can use better documentation and support for troubleshooting."
"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"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."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 100 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Nagios XI, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and SCOM. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Zabbix report.
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