Goliath Performance Monitor vs Zabbix comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Zabbix and Goliath Performance Monitor are competing products in performance monitoring and management. Goliath Performance Monitor seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced diagnostic features enhancing network optimization.

Features: Zabbix offers scalability, open-source customization, and flexible notifications. Goliath Performance Monitor is known for diagnostic capabilities, comprehensive reporting tools, and insights into application performance.

Room for Improvement: Zabbix could improve its initial setup process, offer better user interface design, and enhance real-time data collection. Goliath Performance Monitor might benefit from more seamless integration capabilities, extended platform support, and more flexible pricing options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zabbix requires extensive configuration, supported by community forums. Goliath Performance Monitor offers a streamlined setup with structured support, known for responsiveness and informativeness.

Pricing and ROI: Zabbix's open-source nature ensures cost-effectiveness and predictable pricing, appealing to budget-conscious organizations. Goliath Performance Monitor, though with higher initial costs, offers significant ROI through performance optimization and reduced troubleshooting time.

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Goliath Performance Monitor vs. Zabbix

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Categories and Ranking

Goliath Performance Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

61st

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zabbix

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

107

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (9th), Network Monitoring Software (1st), Server Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Goliath Performance Monitor is 0.3%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zabbix is 12.0%, up from 11.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Zabbix	12.0%
Goliath Performance Monitor	0.3%
Other	87.7%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Featured Reviews

networke29316

Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Monitors well with Citrix, stable, and the support is very responsive

It looks like it is easy to scale, but I don't know how far it can go out. We are only a 300, or 400 person company. We are not terribly large. It looks like it should be able to scale up until 10,000 at least. There are two users in the company who use this solution, I use it, and the helpdesk.

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B Ahmed

Manager, Information Technology Zara & Inditex at Cenomi

Enables seamless global client monitoring with reliable remote connectivity

I use the solution to provide a perfect environment for remote connectivity with my clients. Many tools that I require for system maintenance are included. I can easily monitor all of my clients throughout the world I did not give much thought to it, however, improvements could be made to Zabbix.…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I like that it not only has the ability to monitor but that it can do a lot of specific Citrix monitoring."

"Offers a diversity of features."

"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."

"The resource usage, CPU utilization, disk usage, network monitoring, network performance, and alerting features are invaluable."

"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."

"The best feature is that Zabbix can report everything, and everything in Zabbix is free."

"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."

"In terms of customization and integration, we have more flexibility. We can automate configurations, define deletion rules, and customize based on the needs. The client interface allows for further configuration, making it quite comprehensive."

"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."

"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."

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Cons

"Issues with generating reports; consistency is not there."

"I would love to be able to tell what ISP the user is coming from."

"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."

"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."

"The stability could be better."

"The only issue we have had with Zabbix is when we decided to make an update or upgrade."

"The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance."

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

"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price seems reasonable."

"We use the open-source version of Zabbix."

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

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

"The solution is free to use but they offer support as a paid service. If you can go read the manuals and do the fine-tuning based on your needs, you do not need to pay anything and you will have a full solution."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"It is free, which allows us to reduce costs."

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

"It’s free of cost."

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it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Healthcare Company

23%

University

16%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	53
Midsize Enterprise	23
Large Enterprise	34

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What do you like most about Zabbix?

The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?

If you want to save costs, you can use Zabbix.

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What needs improvement with Zabbix?

The reporting is lacking because this is an open-source tool, and nowadays, management's expectation is that the reports should be of high quality and every information should be presented in a con...

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Overview

Goliath Performance Monitor offers proactive, end-to-end IT performance monitoring for Citrix & VMware to ensure a positive end user experience. Goliath Performance Monitor provides complete support for monitoring virtual server, virtual desktop and hybrid cloud environments, and provides specialized modules for certain EMR/EHR applications and NVIDIA GRID vGPU. Goliath Performance Monitor has been architected from the ground up to help IT administrators anticipate end user experience issues, troubleshoot the root cause, and deploy remediation actions quickly before end users complain.

Goliath Technologies

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software that provides real-time monitoring and alerting for servers, networks, applications, and services.

It offers a wide range of features including data collection, visualization, and reporting.

With its user-friendly interface and customizable dashboards, Zabbix helps organizations ensure the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure.

Sample Customers

Walmart, Facebook, Xerox, UHS, ADP, Wyndham Worldwide

1. IBM 2. Dell 3. Cisco 4. HP 5. Oracle 6. Microsoft 7. Amazon 8. Google 9. Facebook 10. Twitter 11. LinkedIn 12. Netflix 13. Adobe 14. VMware 15. Salesforce 16. SAP 17. Intel 18. AT&T 19. Verizon 20. T-Mobile 21. Vodafone 22. Ericsson 23. Nokia 24. Siemens 25. General Electric 26. Honeywell 27. Philips 28. Sony 29. Samsung 30. LG 31. Panasonic 32. Toshiba

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