We performed a comparison between Instana Infrastructure Monitoring and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The product's initial setup is easy."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is monitoring."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"I really enjoy network traffic triggers that allow us to check traffic threshold from ISP."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
"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."
"I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this."
"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."
"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."
"The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance."
"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
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Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 44th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 2 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 101 reviews. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.6, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring writes "A reasonably stable and scalable tool for monitoring purposes with an easy initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), Amazon CloudWatch, Checkmk, Opsview and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI.
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