We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Server Monitoring and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can view the server activities, including issues in the process, with a single click."
"This solution gives us quite good insights that we might otherwise overlook, or it might take a really long time to debug those issues."
"The product has the ability to drill down to the errors whenever we have issues."
"The auto-discovery of the logs is the most valuable feature. It requires minimal configuration, we just need to set up on once and it automatically detects through the code."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I don't see any problems in the solution...The solution's technical support was good."
"The platform is reliable in identifying the core system issues."
"The product provides a nice end-user experience."
"The solution offers great visibility that allows you to track where errors originated."
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"Health and communication links availability."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"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."
"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."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"If we consider the implementation of alternative solutions, such as Dynatrace, there is a notable difference in the approach to agent-based service monitoring. For instance, Dynatrace employs a single-agent solution, which can pose security concerns. When installing Dynatrace, granting the agent ld pro payload rights is a requirement. In contrast, our solution ensures a more secure approach by not requiring root and administration access. While we currently utilize an agent-based solution, there may be a shift in the next one or two years, possibly with the adoption of Open Telemetry. It's anticipated that many APM vendors, including Dynatrace, may alter their structure or strategy for implementation. However, as of now, the trend is towards an increasing number of implementations daily."
"The product’s dashboard could be more easy to implement."
"I would like the ability to choose from some pre-defined dashboards and reports because as it is now, you have to define them separately for each implementation."
"The tool should provide information like the number of connections and processes utilized in real time."
"Things are being done differently in the industry now, and many of these problems are being solved with cloud databases."
"I could not find a user-friendly interface for querying, and analytics sometimes gives the wrong results...I feel that analytics could have been better in searching and running the analytical queries."
"The configuration is tricky and requires a lot of tools."
"In the next release, I would like to see the configuration of the data and more support for new applications. It should support new languages."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"My company wanted to do an exercise command to access IT from Cameroon. They wanted to access an FSS to a second host with second equipment that was on another coast but it is not possible on Zabbix to do it. They want to directly access from the front-end of Zabbix to access a prompt in Zabbix to an access terminal. In the front-end, there is no way to do that. That would be an important improvement."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
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AppDynamics Server Monitoring is ranked 19th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 16 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 101 reviews. AppDynamics Server Monitoring is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Server Monitoring writes "A highly stable and scalable solution that provides real-time information on servers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". AppDynamics Server Monitoring is most compared with OpsRamp, ITRS Geneos, Nutanix Prism, PRTG Network Monitor and ServiceNow IT Operations Management, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our AppDynamics Server Monitoring vs. Zabbix report.
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