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Evanios vs Zabbix comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
9.1
Evanios improved event visibility, reduced IT hours, increased system reliability, and provided over 100% ROI with up to 90% noise reduction.
Sentiment score
7.2
Large enterprises save over $1 million with Zabbix via reduced costs, improved service availability, and enhanced team efficiency.
Through utilizing automated remediation scripts and catching crucial issues proactively, we have cut our manual troubleshooting and incident response time in half.
Developer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.9
Evanios offers exceptional customer service and technical support, known for rapid, knowledgeable assistance and a proactive, friendly approach.
Sentiment score
6.9
Zabbix offers excellent paid support, while non-paying users utilize highly praised community forums and documentation for assistance.
It receives a perfect 10 for guaranteed, dedicated 24/7 technical support with strict SLA only when you purchase one of their premium commercial tiers.
Developer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I changed the config file by adjusting the connector size and cache size.
Consultant at ministry of trade
It is so straightforward that I have never had to use the support.
CTO at Oic
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.6
Evanios is highly scalable, effectively handling diverse applications through flexible rules and configurations despite occasional bottlenecks.
Sentiment score
6.9
Zabbix is highly scalable and efficient for medium to enterprise needs, though requires careful resource management to avoid bottlenecks.
Zabbix scales extremely well both vertically and horizontally.
Developer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Zabbix has high scalability.
CTO at Four Nine Agency
Zabbix is very scalable and lightweight.
CTO at Oic
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.7
Users praise Evanios for its stability and reliability, marking significant improvement over previous platforms with no reported issues.
Sentiment score
7.5
Zabbix is generally stable and reliable with minimal issues, but improvements are needed for larger deployments and setup challenges.
Zabbix is very scalable and lightweight.
CTO at Oic
I think the stability of Zabbix is around five to six on a scale of ten, where ten is the best and one is the worst.
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Zabbix is quite stable, and we haven't had any problems with Zabbix itself.
CTO at Four Nine Agency
 

Room For Improvement

Evanios needs better alert management, integration, and cost efficiency, leading users to consider alternatives like PagerDuty for added features.
Zabbix needs improvement in UI, documentation, integration, licensing, and features like monitoring, automation, and customization for modern use.
The only issue I can note is that it's Linux-based, and Linux documentation is not the best.
CTO at Oic
Adding a wider library of official ready-to-use templates would have saved a tremendous amount of manual scripting time.
Developer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I installed Zabbix for the 300 devices.
Consultant at ministry of trade
 

Setup Cost

Zabbix provides a free, open-source monitoring solution with optional support services for enterprises, praised for affordability and no licensing fees.
Zabbix is providing everything free of cost.
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
It is literally free.
CTO at Oic
 

Valuable Features

Evanios offers powerful, flexible event processing with seamless ServiceNow integration, user-friendly rule types, and adaptable JavaScript manipulation.
Zabbix offers ease of use, scalability, robust monitoring, integration, and flexibility, making it ideal for diverse environments.
If disk usage surpasses a threshold, say 70%, I receive alerts and can take proactive action.
CTO at Oic
The prediction outputs are extremely reliable because Zabbix relies on transparent statistical mathematics, such as standard deviation and weighted moving averages, rather than a closed black box AI model.
Developer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Zabbix has a lot of features, including monitoring, status updates, and collecting information telemetry from storages and servers as well.
CTO at Four Nine Agency
 

Categories and Ranking

Evanios
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
64th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (15th), IT Operations Analytics (17th)
Zabbix
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
110
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (10th), Network Monitoring Software (1st), Server Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Evanios is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zabbix is 4.8%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Zabbix4.8%
Evanios0.6%
Other94.6%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

DM
Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Customizable solution that provides the ability to ingest alerts from different systems
The price could be cheaper. That was one reason why we switched to PagerDuty. We wanted to switch to something that provided the same features but at a lower cost. We also switched because PagerDuty provided other features like integration with ServiceNow and the scheduling of engineers. Evanios was only for event integration. Evanios created too much noise. For every alert, it would create an incident. We received too many alerts and incidents from monitoring. It wasn't able to intelligently ingest alerts. It created 4,000 incident tickets in a month, which didn't reflect what was happening. If we received an alert, the synthetic monitoring and volume drop would give us the same alert. Evanios should include alert ingestion and de-duplication of alerts and noise reduction. We couldn't have people resolving each and every incident. PagerDuty gives us reports on how many alerts are being ingested, how many are noise, how many have bigger incidents, and which of the alerts are creating noise. It would be helpful if Evanios had metrics on the amount of alerts and types of the alerts to show which ones were serious incidents and which ones were just noise.
PJ
Developer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Unified monitoring has reduced outages and enables proactive fixes with automated remediation
My favorite best feature is the ability to manage complex hybrid environments from a single dashboard. Zabbix natively supports monitoring everything from Linux servers and Windows servers to network devices and cloud infrastructure. The view I rely on the most on a day-to-day basis is a custom dashboard combining the problem widget and graph widget. The problem widget gives me an immediate filtered snapshot of the active alerts across all our servers. I pair that with the graph widget, which allows me to track performance metrics and compare values over time, such as monitoring storage and capacity trends on our Synology appliance. Having all of this in a single pane of glass saves me from constantly digging through logs. I also rely heavily on custom dashboards that combine the problem widget and the top host widget. The problem widget gives me an immediate filtered list of any active alerts across the entire environment. I pair that with the top host widget, which instantly shows me which servers are consuming the highest resources. Having all of these related metrics side-by-side in a single view allows me to spot the issue and identify the exact server causing it without having to dig through separate tools. Zabbix has built-in machine learning for continuous anomaly detection and proactive trend prediction. It establishes a baseline by analyzing historical data, allowing it to forecast impending issues, such as predicting exactly when a system will run out of resources before critical thresholds are breached. From a governance and security perspective, it delivers enterprise-grade security by supporting full data encryption and integration with external secret vaults to protect sensitive credentials. From a governance perspective, it features detailed configuration change tracking and role-based user permissions, which allows administrators to secure different teams or tenants within a single environment. Regarding accuracy, Zabbix's proactive alerts are highly accurate and trustworthy, provided they are fed enough historical data to establish a solid baseline. Regarding reliability and output, the prediction outputs are extremely reliable because Zabbix relies on transparent statistical mathematics, such as standard deviation and weighted moving averages, rather than a closed black box AI model. The straightforward statistical approach allows administrators to forecast value reliability and predict exactly how much time they have before a system reaches a critical problem threshold.
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Comparison Review

it_user174738 - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
 

Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business56
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise35
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?
I think Zabbix is economical, whereas SolarWinds is expensive. SolarWinds has a lot of secure features, but Zabbix is providing everything free of cost. Zabbix is economical, and you can install it...
What needs improvement with Zabbix?
I am using only Area Operations, but I don't prefer it. I installed Zabbix for the 3000 devices. Area Operations is not good.
What is your primary use case for Zabbix?
I am still working with VMware and Area Operations, but I installed Zabbix now. I think Zabbix is better than VMware Area Operations. It's really good. I'm working with both Zabbix and VMware now.
 

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