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Comparison

Grafana vs Zabbix

No clear leader: Grafana (54.3) and Zabbix (53.6) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. 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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Grafana54
Zabbix54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Grafana54 / 100high · 75%
Zabbix54 / 100low · 21%
Pricing
Free tier
Grafana✓
Zabbix✓
Model
Grafanafreemium
Zabbixfreemium
Price level
Grafanalow
Zabbixlow
Transparent
Grafana✗
Zabbix✗
Integrations
Count
Grafana6
Zabbix45
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
Grafana✓
Zabbix–
Fedramp
Grafana✓
Zabbix–
Gdpr
Grafana✓
Zabbix✓
Iso27001
Grafana✓
Zabbix–
Pci
Grafana✓
Zabbix–
Scorecard
Grafana6.8
Zabbix–
Soc2
Grafana✓
Zabbix–
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Grafana✓
Zabbix–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Grafana1,048
Zabbix–
Github stars
Grafana77,082
Zabbix–
Package downloads weekly
Grafana0
Zabbix–
Stackoverflow questions
Grafana14,000
Zabbix–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Grafana100
Zabbix–
Release
History
Grafana20 items
Zabbix–
License
Spdx
GrafanaAGPL-3.0
Zabbix–
Language
Primary
GrafanaTypeScript
Zabbix–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Grafana8 items
Zabbix7 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Grafana

A comprehensive observability solution that integrates metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources using OpenTelemetry-native standards, providing dashboards, alerting, and incident management capabilities for teams of any size.

Independently observed

Zabbix

A distributed monitoring solution that provides visibility across cloud infrastructure, networks, applications, services, and IoT devices, available for deployment 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.

Grafana

from $0.05/moHybridFree tier

Free forever tier always available. Pro plans from $19/month + usage with volume discounts. Enterprise from $25,000/year with custom terms.

  • FreeFree
    • All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage
    • Community support
    • 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6 performance tests
  • ProFrom $19/month + usage with automatic volume discounts
    • Everything in Free plan
    • Pay as you go above free tier with volume discounts
    • 8×5 email support
    • 13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, k6 performance tests
    • Adaptive Logs and Metrics cost optimization
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Premium support
    • Custom retention policies
    • Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
    • As low as $3 per 1k series for metrics at scale
    • Custom pricing based on annual commit and volume
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
Grafana✓
Zabbix✓
Windows
Grafana✗
Zabbix✓
Linux
Grafana✗
Zabbix✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Grafana✓
Zabbix✓
Self-hosted
Grafana✓
Zabbix✓
On-premise
Grafana✗
Zabbix✓

Integrations

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

In common (4)
  • Prometheus
  • Elasticsearch
  • InfluxDB
  • Kubernetes

Grafana

10 total - 6 not shared
  • Loki
  • Postgres
  • AWS
  • Tempo
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Azure Monitor
Independently observed

Zabbix

43 total - 39 not shared
  • SNMP
  • Java
  • IPMI
  • SSH
  • Telnet
  • NETCONF
  • SFTP
  • ODBC
  • ICMP
  • TCP
  • Modbus
  • MQTT
  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • VMware
  • vCenter
  • Veeam Backup and Replication
  • Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
  • RabbitMQ
  • GCP
  • MSSQL
  • Slack
  • MS Teams
  • Pushover
  • +15 more
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Grafana or Zabbix: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

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