We performed a comparison between Opsview 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."
"We use this solution for internal monitoring our own cloud platform because we are a public cloud provider. We also use it for monitoring purposes on behalf of our clients."
"I am satisfied with the overall product since it works well…It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Opsview is the ability to clone the services when you're monitoring something out of the test setup."
"It's a good solution. It covers all aspects of monitoring purposes."
"What was very compelling about OpsView was that we could dial out the noise and have meaningful and actionable alerts."
"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."
"Zabbix is scalable."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"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."
"Zabbix helps to save time."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"In a future release, we would like to have Observ for AI. Any AI and intelligence it can add to the monitoring is obviously beneficial. We would also like to have automated callouts."
"Customized reporting can be improved."
"Maybe the graphical representation can be improved. It can be enhanced for better visualization. It could be a little better. And the graph center can be improved."
"Some of the graphics on Opsview could be improved."
"Pricing and a few certain aspects in the solution needs to be improved."
"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."
"There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast."
"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"Look and feel."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
Opsview is ranked 23rd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 24 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 100 reviews. Opsview is rated 8.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Opsview writes "Responsive and easy to customize alerts for, while being priced similarly to its competition". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Opsview is most compared with OP5 Monitor, Nagios XI, Instana Infrastructure Monitoring and SCOM, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Opsview vs. Zabbix report.
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