We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability 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 solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"The Elastic User Interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. You need to have some Javascript knowledge. We need that knowledge to develop new custom tests."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"The solution is open-source and helps with back-end logging. It is also easy to handle."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"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."
"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."
"Health and communication links availability."
"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."
"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"The interface could be improved."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"The solution would be better if it was capable of more automation, especially in a monitoring capacity or for the response to abnormalities."
"The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before."
"The auto-discovery isn't nearly as good. That's a big portion of it. When you drop the agent onto the JVM and you're trying to figure things out, having to go through and manually do all that is cumbersome."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"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."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 101 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and AWS X-Ray, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Oracle Enterprise Manager. See our Elastic Observability vs. Zabbix report.
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