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Comparison

Middleware vs Zabbix

On the evidence we track, Middleware leads this comparison with a composite score of 71/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Middleware71
Zabbix54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Middleware71 / 100medium · 74%
Zabbix54 / 100low · 21%
Pricing
Free tier
Middleware✓
Zabbix✓
Model
Middlewarefreemium
Zabbixfreemium
Price level
Middlewarelow
Zabbixlow
Starting price
Middleware$0.30
Zabbix–
Transparent
Middleware✓
Zabbix✗
Integrations
Count
Middleware450
Zabbix45
Security
Gdpr
Middleware✓
Zabbix✓
Iso27001
Middleware✓
Zabbix–
Soc2
Middleware✓
Zabbix–
Reliability
Status page
Middleware✓
Zabbix–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Middleware7 items
Zabbix7 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Middleware

Leader

A platform that helps teams monitor cloud systems and applications in real-time, automatically detect problems, analyze their root causes, and resolve them efficiently.

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.

Middleware

Leader
from $0.30/gbUsage-basedFree tier14-day trial

Free tier with 100GB/month. Pay-as-you-go from $0.3/GB. Custom pricing with BYOC option.

  • FreeFree
    • Unlimited Users
    • Community Based Support
    • 14 day retention
  • Pay As You Go$0.3/GB logs, metrics, traces; $1 per 1K RUM sessions
    • Error solving with OpsAI
    • Ingestion Control & Data Pipeline
    • 30 day retention
    • SSO and Security Features
    • Dedicated Slack/MS Teams Channel
  • BYOCContact sales
    • Dedicated Account Team
    • Multi-year Contract Discounts
    • Custom Data Retention
    • Bring Your Own Cloud
    • 24x7 Support
    • +3 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
Middleware✗
Zabbix✓
iOS
Middleware✓
Zabbix✗
Android
Middleware✓
Zabbix✗
macOS
Middleware✓
Zabbix✗
Windows
Middleware✓
Zabbix✓
Linux
Middleware✓
Zabbix✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Middleware✓
Zabbix✓
Self-hosted
Middleware✓
Zabbix✓
On-premise
Middleware✗
Zabbix✓

Integrations

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

In common (4)
  • Slack
  • Prometheus
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker

Middleware

Leader
15 total - 11 not shared
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Stripe
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Amazon S3
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Python
  • Node.js
  • Go
  • iOS
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
  • MS Teams
  • Pushover
  • ilert
  • +15 more
Independently observed
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