We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and Zabbix based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Despite the fact that Zabbix is free, Meraki Dashboard is the winner in this comparison. It is a robust and high-performing solution that received high marks for its single management pane. In contrast, Zabbix users feel that it isn’t very user-friendly.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"We greatly utilize the network because we can plug it into the DNS, VPN, or equipment. It's very good. Meraki Dashboard enhances wireless network management. We appreciate its flexibility, as it allows for easy suite configuration. We can handle everything on there when there's a policy or any other requirement."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki Dashboard is we can manage our switches and access point in one place."
"The dashboard itself is very simplified and easy to navigate."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"The initial setup was easy."
"There is no need to swap the hardware at all the locations, and importing the APs into the Dashboard was a simple and quick process."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools."
"We use Zabbix to monitor our organization's IT infrastructure and workstations. We don't use Microsoft Intune since it's expensive. The tool's real-time alerting system has proved crucial for us, particularly when a new device joins a network that is not one of our own devices. It notifies us about the presence of this new device, allowing us to investigate further. Additionally, it alerts us about disk usage, memory usage, and the software installed on the machine."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The one issue that we have had is that the VPN tunnel would go down unless you worked out with the ISP that you would be using a static IP address on the WAN interface."
"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
"An area for improvement in Meraki Dashboard is licensing management because it's a little complex. Product licensing can be made a little bit easier through license concurrency and a more straightforward approach to applying the license to products and services."
"The pricing for this solution needs to be improved."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"Price could be reduced."
"Third-party switches do not necessarily integrate easily with the system and this could be improved to allow for better adaptation."
"You can't really clone or replicate a device, that sort of feature would be useful. You can clone the site but you cannot clone the device."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"It could be more stable."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"The event correlation could be better."
"In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually. For example, if we collect a report file every day and want to send it to a moderator for review. We are expecting this feature to come out soon but it would be valuable to have now."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
"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."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 100 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. Zabbix report.
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