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."Before we moved the code to AppDynamics, we had to compare the agile process and also had to make sure that they're following the standards."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"The AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"During my testing, the features that I like the most are that it can be integrated with my system, and it provides me with reports of all of my servers."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"There is less computing power needed for scaling."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"When you have high stress of visits I do not know if you are more stress because of the amount of visits or because you have to wait eternal 60 seconds to find out it things are going well or you already have mess."
"I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"AppDynamics is dealing with a lot of products and technologies, so we need to have clear documentation."
"This solution is expensive."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"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."
"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
"Its UI needs to be improved a little bit more so that an end-user is also able to handle it. I can handle it, but others should also be able to handle it in a better way. It becomes complex when we are growing and need to add proxies. We need more scalability features and documentation for different use cases. A lot of articles are available, but they need to be in proper documentation. For example, when you have thousands of servers that have to be monitored in different regions of the world, there should be some kind of documentation to describe how you can create proxies and add them. Sometimes, when you are using the database, it can get overloaded. When the network is growing, the number of transactions becomes very high, and the database gets overloaded. There should be information about how to reduce the load on the MySQL database, which is what Zabbix is using. The market is growing a lot, and it should be enhanced for a lot more things. We are currently bringing enhancements at our end for different use cases. For example, when dockerization is going on, how can we check the logs inside the Dockers. We should also be able to monitor and check the number of logins and add features such as SSO login and two-factor authentication as a protocol. These are the security features and concerns that we have to deal with. Currently, we are developing modules to add features to Zabbix, but they should also work on these features."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
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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