FortiMonitor vs. Zabbix

Zabbix

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
FortiMonitor	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	FortiMonitor is a comprehensive, SaaS-based digital experience monitoring (DEM) platform that helps organizations modernize their performance-monitoring tools. It provides visibility into endpoint application performance and digital experience—no matter where the user resides or where the application is hosted. It is based on Panopta, which was acquired by Fortinet in late 2020.	N/A
Zabbix	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.	N/A

Pricing

FortiMonitor

Zabbix

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
FortiMonitor	Zabbix
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Our simple, usage-based pricing model is ideal whether you have five servers, or 500 hundred. You’ll be charged monthly per the number of instances monitored, and any additional features you’re using, such as CounterMeasures and synthetic checks. Standard Instances - $6/Instance Network Devices - $9/Device Containers - $2/Container

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Community Pulse
	FortiMonitor	Zabbix
Considered Both Products	FortiMonitor Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Chose FortiMonitor Panopta management from the cloud (remote panel). Easy work on installation. To monitor servers, it is enough for the server to have contact only with the Internet. Incentivized Helpful?	Zabbix Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix The software's I mentioned are great, but they are overpriced comparing to Zabbix while it's a free open-source application. The value its adding has high price than any other free open-source apps. the monitoring and alerts details and the friendly user interface is stacking … Incentivized Helpful? Osman Gani Project Coordinator Chose Zabbix SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) and SolarWinds Network Device Monitor Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix As I have mentioned before, its free, open source, very customizable and easy to use. I think anybody with minimum networking or computer knowledge can watch tutorials and implement this solution easily. Also it has great community support and forums Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix Zabbix has no financial cost, PRTG is very expensive but just as impressive capability wise. Incentivized Helpful? Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer Chose Zabbix Zabbix is very easy to configure and this tool provides a more active alert system. We have evaluated ipMonitor and CloudWatch but the scope for sending alerts is very limited and this tool is very efficient in sending alerts through emails, MS Teams, and even on SMS. We are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix We're using the Solarwinds suite as our global monitoring standard, but it is very complex and its licensing model makes it difficult to monitor a wide range of technologies. So, we're using Zabbix as a complement on our monitoring process. Zabbix is a way more flexible and has … Incentivized Helpful? Faustine Chisasa Network Engineer Chose Zabbix Zabbix is more flexible, highly customizable and low on resource usage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix It's much easier to get the trained specialists that have experience with this tool in our country. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix We're using Munin in parallel to Zabbix, mostly out of legacy reasons. While Munin in the version used here only allows static graphs through image-files, Zabbix clearly wins here with the option to zoom in and out. I used Nagios many years ago and it was quite similar to … Incentivized Helpful? EV Eduardo Viero IT Infrastructure Specialist Chose Zabbix Although we still use Cisco Prime for network devices, when comparing Zabbix with Nagios, for example, you see that Zabbix is more robust, stable, easy to deploy and has an enterprise focus that other tools don't have. Also, the fact that the Zabbix community is very active is … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Higgins Infrastructure Engineer Chose Zabbix Most of the SolarWinds are separated out, whereas Zabbix includes templates and capabilities for all of them out of the box. Other solutions listed include most or all of them to varying degrees as well. New Relic is more for Application Monitoring, but the New Relic … Incentivized Helpful? Ricardo Melo Network Analyst Chose Zabbix Zabbix was adopted in our framework due to the value, the hardware requirements, the knowledge we had available and the vast documentation on the internet. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix Zabbix is a great, free solution. While not everything is discovered and configured out of the box, it is a powerful tool that allows for complete customization to what your organization needs as far as a monitoring solution. We've invested the time to make Zabbix powerful, … Incentivized Helpful? Steve Mushero CEO Chose Zabbix Zabbix was much better at handling traditional systems, and in ease of customization, both in the system itself, and customizing data sources, such as adding deep MySQL or JMX integrations. It's very good for organizing large-scale (hundreds or thousands of servers) systems; … Incentivized Helpful? Eric O'Callaghan Linux Engineer Chose Zabbix I personally prefer Zabbix over any other monitoring software that I have ever tried. Zabbix is so customizable that if there is a feature I need, I can easily implement it. I can then add that feature to a template in no time and have it applied to hundreds, or even thousands, … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Quint Lead AWS Systems Architect Chose Zabbix More extensive and customizable than SaaS solutions. Much less learning curve than Nagios. Cost is very much lower than SaaS monitoring especially at scales over 1000 hosts ($15,000/month for SaaS!!) Templating systems allows for easy management and monitoring of groups of … Incentivized Helpful? Nishanthi Mohan DevOps Engineer Chose Zabbix Zabbix is cost effective maybe and certainly a good tool but not the best. The other ones have features that Zabbix is missing and we use couple of them. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix Zabbix had the best support for the devices I initially had in my network, its ability to adapt and change has made it my Swiss Army knife of monitoring tools. While it could benefit greatly from a moderated zabbix community, its support from the open source community has … Incentivized Helpful? Deepshikha Gandhi DevOps Engineer Chose Zabbix Nagios has some advantages over Zabbix like "flapping" detection and multiple alert levels - Error, Warning and OK. However, the disadvantages of Nagios like needing an addon (NRPE) to monitor remote system internals (open files, running processes, memory, etc), no charting of … Incentivized Helpful? Nadir Wade Linux Administrator Chose Zabbix Nagios will always be at or near the top, but I really like how sleek Zabbix is. Also, once it's up and running its really helps keep things in order for you and your customers. As for PandoraFMS, it would have beat out Zabbix, but the documentation on PandoraFMS is really … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix The choice was made about 6 years ago, but nothing recent has called that into question. I don't really remember the details of the original choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix I have had feedback that Splunk is a more out-of-the-box solution. With some fine tuning, it is possible to get the same robust functionality from a Logstash and Zabbix integration. The setup is more taxing, but you avoid paying the costly Splunk fees. So it all really depends … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zabbix I'm mostly familiar with Zabbix, but I've also started working with OpenNMS more recently. It appears that they're very comparable, the major difference being that OpenNMS supports SNMP Traps natively and can import MIBs which I was never able to figure out with Zabbix. Like … Incentivized Helpful? AK Asad Khan Technical CARE Specialist Chose Zabbix Well, I am not a decision-maker here, but I believe Zabbix has been adopted as a default choice to be integrated with Nokia OpenStack because of its simplicity of usage & other products were not matured at that time. Single GUI can be used for infrastructure as well as workload … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	FortiMonitor	Zabbix
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	FortiMonitor	Zabbix
Likelihood to Recommend	It is great for monitoring internet connections. The agent installed on Windows works efficiently and takes up little resources. The method of settling costs is not very clear. There should also be a table with the current list of costs visible. Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Because we spread out in different locations, we can't always know the status of our devices. Zabbix solves this issue for us. As soon as we see an alert that the remote site is down, we can solve it right away. I can't think of a scenario where it was less appropriate for us. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Monitoring from several locations Fast notification Push notifications, SMS and calling Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Alerts; Zabbix allows deep customization of conditions and alerts giving you the ability to perform nearly any scripted action in a variety of scenarios Inventory; having one place to see a list of all on-going problems and list of servers within your organization is critical Graphs; screens or graphs showing customizable and color-coded historical usage is a necessity in any monitoring software Incentivized Eric O'Callaghan Linux Engineer Read full review
Cons	Simplifying the interface Simplification of the process, e.g. notifications to Slack Dark mode for panel and dashboard Push notification - should contain more detailed information A nicer looking dashboard Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Creating an alert & its trigger can be made easier. More VM-based data collection counters should be introduced to have better VM monitoring. The raw counters collection agent in every node is relatively weak. It goes down often, which needs more stability. Incentivized Asad Khan Technical CARE Specialist Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	It is free. It didn't cost anything to implement (other than my time and the cost incurred for it) and it is filling a badly needed gap in our IT infrastructure. Support is available if we have issues and can be done annually or paid for on a per incident basis as needed. Expansion, updates, and all other future lifecycle activities are likewise free of cost, so as long as someone is able to implement/maintain the software (and the OSS project is maintained) then I imagine the company will never leave it. Incentivized Thomas Higgins Infrastructure Engineer Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Well i find the tool quite useful for my daily network monitoring purpose. We get the alerts easily through SMS which saves us lot of our times and effort. The tool is highly customizable which i mentioned earlier which helps to create different alert criteria for different device or system. Incentivized Osman Gani Project Coordinator Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	The setup is the most time-consuming portion of using zabbix. It takes a lot of effort to shape it into a usable format and even then it can get very messy. It's not exactly intuitive and as mentioned the UI seems a bit antiquated. If I was to roll out a monitoring solution from scratch, I'd probably look for alternatives which are easier to use and maintain. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	We are a mainly Windows environment, so it would be useful if we could have used Active Directory to deploy agents. As of version 4.2, Zabbix has announced a new agent MSI file to allow exactly that. Unfortunately, we didn't have that option. Also, for Linux and MAC deployments, there is no simple way to deploy that. Using remote scripts you may be able to create something, but most places will opt for either SNMP (agentless) or manual installation of agents to add to Zabbix. A way of deploying agents via discovery would go a long way to helping in the adoption of the tool. Incentivized Thomas Higgins Infrastructure Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Panopta management from the cloud (remote panel). Easy work on installation. To monitor servers, it is enough for the server to have contact only with the Internet. Multiple channels for sending notifications. Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	The software's I mentioned are great, but they are overpriced comparing to Zabbix while it's a free open-source application. The value its adding has high price than any other free open-source apps. the monitoring and alerts details and the friendly user interface is stacking up against any other apps in the web. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Provides high availability of services Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Zabbix has had a positive impact on uptime of our external facing website. Users don't always call up our Customer Service team to report that something is down - sometimes they just abandon the website all together. By having a monitoring solution that tells us when things are down before customers do, we are able to respond quickly and avoid losing visitors and ultimately sales. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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