Zabbix-vs-PRTG
Zabbix is a 100% free and open source product, with closed development. As a private company with no investors, there is no incentive to make as much revenue as possible, they prefer to build the best monitoring tool available.
Paessler is owned by a investor and as such sales/revenue driven. Their product is not free, nor open source. The UI/visualisation is really nice however the actual monitoring options are a bit limited and not as flexible as Zabbix
| ZABBIX | PRTG | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment |
Self hosted, Cloud or managed.
Fully open source |
Proprietary, Windows based |
| Ease of Setup |
Auto discovery available, requires initial configuration |
Auto discovery is easy thanks to the preconfigured sensors |
| Scalability |
Highly scalable for
enterprise use without limitations or extra (licensing) costs and distributed monitoring |
Limited by the license purchased |
| User interface |
Web based, built with a
technical mindset - there is a learning curve |
Web based and desktop
app. Intuitive UI |
| Support & reliability |
Enterprise (24/7 with 90 minute SLA) support available. Privately owned company |
Included in license, NBD
SLA Run by investors |
| Monitoring methods |
Agents, SNMP, WMI, SQL, API, Webhooks, synthetic monitoring, HTTP requests, custom scripts |
Limited by the preconfigured sensors: SNMP, WMI, API |
