Apache SkyWalking vs Zabbix comparison

"Apache SkyWalking is a very nice tool and an exceptional tool for managing volume and complex architecture on AWS without the prohibitive cost of commercial suites."

"It can send messages to our ticketing system."

"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."

"The pricing of the product is reasonable."

"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."

"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."

"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."

"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."

"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."

"Apache SkyWalking can be improved with storage management complexity because with this volume of 50 million traces a day, managing data retention on OpenSearch is critical."

"Its UI needs to be improved a little bit more so that an end-user is also able to handle it. I can handle it, but others should also be able to handle it in a better way. It becomes complex when we are growing and need to add proxies. We need more scalability features and documentation for different use cases. A lot of articles are available, but they need to be in proper documentation. For example, when you have thousands of servers that have to be monitored in different regions of the world, there should be some kind of documentation to describe how you can create proxies and add them. Sometimes, when you are using the database, it can get overloaded. When the network is growing, the number of transactions becomes very high, and the database gets overloaded. There should be information about how to reduce the load on the MySQL database, which is what Zabbix is using. The market is growing a lot, and it should be enhanced for a lot more things. We are currently bringing enhancements at our end for different use cases. For example, when dockerization is going on, how can we check the logs inside the Dockers. We should also be able to monitor and check the number of logins and add features such as SSO login and two-factor authentication as a protocol. These are the security features and concerns that we have to deal with. Currently, we are developing modules to add features to Zabbix, but they should also work on these features."

"Zabbix isn't very good at automation just yet."

"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."

"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."

"Improvement is needed as per customer requirements."

"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."

"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."

"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 were searching for an open source solution and Zabbix fit the bill because it is free and open source under the GPL license."

"We are using the free, open-source version."

"Zabbix is open-source so if one wishes to implement it in-house, they must have qualified professionals to set up and optimize databases, Linux/Unix OS, PHP, Apache, and depending on what is monitored, a full-stack network and systems administrator may be needed."

"There is a license required for this solution and we pay annually for our license."

"It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation."

"It’s free of cost."

"There is no license but we need to pay for support."

"I was using the free, Community Edition."