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 provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"We like the alert features."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"Like other common Linux distributions, some of the most valuable features of this solution are the ease of use and deployment. It's simple and has a lot of packages and a lot of software."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"The initial setup was very quick. The first time it was long because I didn't know it yet. I was only using Windows. The first time was very difficult because of the operating system."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"The solution should include online support."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."
"My company wanted to do an exercise command to access IT from Cameroon. They wanted to access an FSS to a second host with second equipment that was on another coast but it is not possible on Zabbix to do it. They want to directly access from the front-end of Zabbix to access a prompt in Zabbix to an access terminal. In the front-end, there is no way to do that. That would be an important improvement."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"The documentation could be improved."
"The stability could be better."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"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."
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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