Comparison

Elastic Observability vs Zabbix

On the evidence we track, Elastic Observability leads this comparison with a composite score of 65/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Elastic Observability65
Zabbix52
Score
Vioscale score
Elastic Observability65 / 100medium · 60%
Zabbix52 / 100low · 17%
Pricing
Free tier
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
Model
Elastic Observabilitycommercial
Price level
Elastic Observabilitylow
Zabbixfree
Transparent
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
Integrations
Count
Elastic Observability450
Zabbix22
Reliability
Status page
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elastic Observability18,551
Zabbix
Github stars
Elastic Observability77,862
Zabbix
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elastic Observability100
Zabbix
Release
History
Elastic Observability20 items
Zabbix
Language
Primary
Elastic ObservabilityJava
Zabbix

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Elastic Observability

Leader

A unified observability platform that ingests logs, metrics, and traces to provide real-time system insights powered by AI agents. Elastic Observability automates root cause analysis and incident response while maintaining operator visibility and control, with support for open standards and multi-cloud deployment.

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.

Elastic Observability

Leader
Quote-basedFree tier14-day trial

Free tier available. Platinum and Enterprise require contacting sales.

  • FreeFree
    • Elasticsearch
    • Kibana
    • Data ingestion via OTel, Logstash, Beats
    • Native authentication and TLS encryption
    • Basic monitoring
    • +3 more
  • PlatinumContact sales
    • Everything in Free
    • Single sign-on (SSO), LDAP/Active Directory
    • Field/document-level security
    • Audit logging
    • Anomaly detection for logs/metrics
    • +10 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Everything in Platinum
    • Searchable snapshots on S3
    • Attack Discovery (GenAI security)
    • Universal Profiling
    • Cross-cluster search
    • +13 more
as of verify ↗

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
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
macOS
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
Windows
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
Linux
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
CLI
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
Self-hosted
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
On-premise
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
Hybrid
Elastic Observability
Zabbix
Air-gapped
Elastic Observability
Zabbix

Integrations

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

Elastic Observability

Leader
36 total
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Jina AI
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Mistral
  • Cohere
  • Meta
  • NVIDIA
  • Hugging Face
  • IBM watsonx
  • Alibaba Cloud
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Unstructured.io
  • Aryn
  • Vectorize.io
  • Slack
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • PagerDuty
  • Microsoft Teams
  • xMatters
  • +12 more
Independently observed

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.