We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM 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: In this comparison, Zabbix comes out slightly ahead because it is open-source whereas SolarWinds NPM is not.
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"From web interfaces to custom monitors and alarms, this product has a high level of flexibility that can be molded to suit your business needs, regardless of the size of your organization."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"What I've found most valuable about the solution is that it's scalable."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"The ability to customize the views and dashboards is nice. SolarWinds also allows us to access the data via the API. That's probably the feature I liked the most."
"The most valuable features are language support and technical support."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"The biggest thing for me is that it provided enough information for me to monitor. It alerts and provides you with the information you need."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"In terms of customization and integration, we have more flexibility. We can automate configurations, define deletion rules, and customize based on the needs. The client interface allows for further configuration, making it quite comprehensive."
"Our customers also like that they don't have to use multiple modules. Micro Focus and major vendors typically require you to buy several modules and plugins. Our customers do not like that. We offer them a single product for all their monitoring needs."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"It is difficult for stakeholders to translate technical requirements, which results in difficulties selecting a platform or implementing a solution."
"A feature I would ask for is for them to have this solution available for Linux systems instead of Windows."
"Robustness of network element mapping tool could be better"
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"The only real caveat that we have or that I have an issue with is when I go on vacation, it's a little hard for me to go and modify alerts so that I don't get alerted about things when I'm on vacation."
"The integration needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"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."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"The event correlation could be better."
"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."
"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."
"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
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SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes, Entuity and LogicMonitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and Nagios XI. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. Zabbix report.
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Hello ,
just to let you know about my modest contribution, indeed its two tools are very practical: The choice of one of the solutions depends on two factors:
- The price and the competence of the system administrators
Zabbix is a free tool and requires a strong Linux, Scripting skill for all that is custom supervision. integration with third-party tools ( Grafana Dashbord , Ticketing Tools ...)
Solarwinds is very intuitive and complete (reporting, view, resources, NOC view) all its features are integrated and easily configurable.
Regards
Arsène