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.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"I like SolarWinds support because it's 24/7. You describe your issues, your situation and maybe two or three hours later you can discuss a solution with a technical engineer."
"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."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"The most valuable features are language support and technical support."
"There are a lot of valuable features with SolarWinds NPM. We can receive a lot of detailed data from the monitoring that can use useful for investigations, especially when you are troubleshooting. It is very helpful. Overall it was a very good experience."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The product is very stable."
"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."
"The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We decided that we were no longer going to trust that their products have not been capitalized."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"The tool can only monitor up to 1000 instances in a single SolarWinds console. Customers may have over 1000 instances. Hence, it needs to support a minimum of 1500 instances. It should also improve support."
"Technical support and releases are not particularly reliable."
"It would be good to have high security."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"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."
"I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this."
"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."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."
"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."
"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."
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, Nagios XI and Amazon CloudWatch. 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