SolarWinds Pingdom vs Zabbix comparison

"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."

"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"

"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."

"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."

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

"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."

"The calculations part is the most valuable."

"Zabbix is good for discovery."

"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."

"I use the solution to provide a perfect environment for remote connectivity with my clients."

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

"It can send messages to our ticketing system."

"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."

"Technical support could use some improvement."

"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."

"I would like to see better integration with other products."

"There are not too much documentation or manuals. We found the tutorials very easy to understand but do not go deep enough in the use of Zabbix. We need more manuals, proper use, documentation, etc."

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

"It should be easy to modify the front end."

"The stability could be better."

"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."

"I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this."

"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."

"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."

"This price of this solution is reasonable."

"The license was paid yearly and included technical support."

"While I wouldn't describe it as excessively expensive, if you require specific and reliable monitoring, SolarWinds can be a suitable option. The advantage is that SolarWinds offers a free version as well. If you don't heavily rely on its monitoring capabilities and are content with its basic features, the free version could suffice for your needs."

"For pricing, it's free. We don't pay anything for it. They open-source the code, and people pay for support."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"This solution is completely open-source, so it is quite affordable."

"It’s free of cost."

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

"It's free software released under the GNU/GPL license."

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

"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."