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Comparison

Chronosphere vs Zabbix

No leader: the top candidate Chronosphere has only 0.19 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Chronosphere95
Zabbix52
Score
Vioscale score
Chronosphere95 / 100low · 19%updating
Zabbix52 / 100low · 17%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Chronosphere–
Zabbix✓
Model
Chronosphere–
Zabbixopen_source
Price level
Chronosphere–
Zabbixfree
Transparent
Chronosphere–
Zabbix✓
Integrations
Count
Chronosphere–
Zabbix22
Security
Gdpr
Chronosphere–
Zabbix✓
Reliability
Sla pct
Chronosphere99.99
Zabbix–
Status page
Chronosphere✓
Zabbix–
Market
Availability
Chronosphere–
ZabbixAvailable worldwide · HQ LV

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for observability tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Signals
Metrics
Chronosphere✓
Zabbix✓
Log management
Chronosphere✓
Zabbix✓
Distributed tracing
Chronosphere✓
Zabbix-
Application performance monitoring
Chronosphere-
Zabbix-
Real-user monitoring
Chronosphere-
Zabbix-
Response
Alerting
Chronosphere✓
Zabbix✓
On-call / incident management
Chronosphere-
Zabbix-
Insight
Dashboards
Chronosphere✓
Zabbix✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native
Chronosphere✓
Zabbix-
Deployment
Hosting
Chronosphere-
ZabbixCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Chronosphere

An observability platform designed for cloud-native Kubernetes environments.

Independently observed

Zabbix

A comprehensive monitoring solution that collects metrics from any source and provides visibility across infrastructure, applications, networks, and services, deployable either on-premises or as a managed cloud service

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Chronosphere

Pricing not documented yet.

Zabbix

from $325/moOpen sourceFree tier5-day trial

Free open-source software with optional subscriptions from $325/month (Silver). All subscriptions include support SLAs and 5 years of security fixes.

  • Silver$325/month, billed annually
    • Online support
    • 1 support contact
    • 8x5 support availability
    • 1 day initial response time
    • Unlimited monitored devices and metrics
  • GoldFrom $825/month, billed annually
    • Phone and online support
    • 2 support contacts
    • 8x5 support availability
    • 4 hour initial response time
    • Distributed monitoring
    • +4 more
  • PlatinumContact sales
    • Phone and online support
    • 3 support contacts
    • 24x7 support availability
    • 2 hour initial response time
    • Distributed monitoring
    • +8 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Phone and online support
    • 7 support contacts
    • 24x7 support availability
    • 1.5 hour initial response time
    • 1 hour emergency response time
    • +12 more
  • GlobalContact sales
    • Phone and online support
    • 20 support contacts
    • 24x7 support availability
    • 1 hour initial response time
    • 1 hour emergency response time
    • +10 more
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Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Chronosphere–
Zabbix✓
macOS
Chronosphere–
Zabbix✓
Windows
Chronosphere–
Zabbix✓
Linux
Chronosphere–
Zabbix✓
CLI
Chronosphere–
Zabbix✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Chronosphere✓
Zabbix✓
Self-hosted
Chronosphere✗
Zabbix✓
On-premise
Chronosphere✗
Zabbix✓
Hybrid
Chronosphere✗
Zabbix✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Chronosphere

Not documented yet.

Zabbix

22 total
  • SNMP
  • Java
  • IPMI
  • SSH
  • Telnet
  • NETCONF
  • SFTP
  • ODBC
  • ICMP
  • TCP
  • Prometheus
  • Modbus
  • MQTT
  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • VMware
  • vCenter
  • Veeam Backup and Replication
  • Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
  • RabbitMQ
  • GCP
  • MSSQL
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.