We performed a comparison between Icinga and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The drafts are easy but what I like about Icinga is that there are many add-ons that you can download."
"It is really easy in Icinga to create your own plugin and integrate it without any fuss. And it works just perfectly fine."
"An affordable solution for small organizations to do basic network monitoring."
"This solution has a self-healing handler where if the service is down, it is automatically restarted."
"Icinga does the job and is fairly stable."
"Macros and the ability to connect it to Google Maps are valuable features."
"The apply rules feature saves a lot of time."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution lacks many features important to higher-level IT management and network support."
"I think the software is quite good, but we have had problems with getting it to recognize certain areas and amend certain checks, where we needed so we would have to create backend scripts for those checks. Though, being open source, it has the support to create backend scripts, it would be better to have these scripts in-built."
"The tool currently fails to provide notifications to users."
"The user interface should be improved."
"The installation and configuration are very complex."
"We have found some problems with Nagios, and support isn't very responsive."
"One of the areas that are frustrating is remote monitoring for more than one machine."
"In general, the product does not look good. However, it does what it is supposed to do. So, the improvements should focus on usability and UI."
"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"The user interface could be better."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
Icinga is ranked 20th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 16 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Icinga is rated 7.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Icinga writes "A stable, scalable and cost-effective solution that helps with inbuilt scripts for easy modification". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Icinga is most compared with Checkmk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI, Centreon and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Icinga vs. Zabbix report.
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