We performed a comparison between Dynatrace 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 all the data on all the calls, which is something that is very different from any other APM solution that I have seen or used in the past."
"This tool helps us gather information from all hosts and services, then cross reference the information."
"Helps us to see the troubleshooting points or what is hiccuping. This is where we go. We reboot, fix it, or do whatever it takes for it to be taken care of."
"The way it shows a problem on the dashboard is pretty good."
"End-to-end visibility of the applications, since we have them instrumented. Understanding where the hotspots are in the applications."
"It helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"We had point solutions where we could see different elements of the stack, and Dynatrace ties everything together. Before, we could never get that full-stack monitoring. It also helps us get us the context of the customer experience. What's the business impact of those problems?"
"The tool allows us to see if it is an infrastructural related issue and see what is affected right away."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"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 is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"The thread traceability is something that needs improvement."
"Configuration could be simpler."
"They've leveraged those security gateways and renamed them ActiveGates, and now there are different web plugins we can run on it... Sometimes the development of those seems to be running very fast and it's not complete. They don't yet function quite as easily as the OneAgents do. But I have hopes that that's going to get better. We have tried the MQ, the Citrix, and the Oracle ActiveGate plugins. They could be sharper. It's the right direction to go. It just seems like it could be smoother."
"This solution needs better support for security and monolithic batch processes."
"The new Dynatrace solution lacks test-automation integration inside the CI pipeline. I hope that will arrive soon."
"In regards to Diffie-Hellman encryption stuff, it is a hurdle with what we are doing with DC RUM, where everyone is embracing stronger security suites, but the whole point of DC RUM is to get that data between the tiers."
"There are a couple gaps in the network reporting that we would like to see cleared up a bit."
"For the manage services, they work on CloudWatch logs and are given CloudWatch logs only. I would like more collaboration with AWS and insight into CloudWatch services. This would be valuable, especially when detecting the fault of the root cause analysis. It would make the process go faster."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."
"There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc."
"It could be more stable."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 100 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Dynatrace vs. Zabbix report.
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