SolarWinds Pingdom vs Zabbix comparison

"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."

"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."

"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."

"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."

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

"Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements."

"During my testing, the features that I like the most are that it can be integrated with my system, and it provides me with reports of all of my servers."

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

"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."

"We use Zabbix to monitor our organization's IT infrastructure and workstations. We don't use Microsoft Intune since it's expensive. The tool's real-time alerting system has proved crucial for us, particularly when a new device joins a network that is not one of our own devices. It notifies us about the presence of this new device, allowing us to investigate further. Additionally, it alerts us about disk usage, memory usage, and the software installed on the machine."

"There is less computing power needed for scaling."

"Technical support could use some improvement."

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

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

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

"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."

"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."

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

"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."

"Documentation terminology could be improved."

"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."

"The documentation could be improved."

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

"This price of this solution is reasonable."

"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."

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

"Zabbix is an open-source tool, and it's free to use."

"The solution is free. However, many open-sourced tools start out free but eventually start charging."

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

"There are no licenses."

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

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."

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