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."The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"It is a stable solution."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"I'm supervising all the IT departments, and Zabbix seems quite good for them. It provides graphics and information in real time. We get alerts about crashes on the system, enabling us to quickly repair issues. We can easily find devices with problems."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"The product is very stable."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"In the next release, I'm hoping for features targeted towards larger users with more customizable options. Despite this, I think pre-canned reports that can be used straight out of the box would be beneficial rather than having to configure each report individually. Additionally, a deeper dive into software configurations on the machines would be useful, although I understand there may be challenges in implementing this due to scripting requirements. More documentation would also be appreciated."
"Zabbix isn't very good at automation just yet."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
"One of the things we don't like is that Zabbix has a license structure with a price that is high compared to the competition. It's very high, for example, compared to something like Microsoft Teams."
"Improvement is needed as per customer requirements."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
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 101 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, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM. See our Grafana vs. Zabbix report.
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