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Comparison

Nagios vs Zabbix

No leader: the top candidate Nagios has only 0.17 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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Nagios100
Zabbix52
Score
Vioscale score
Nagios100 / 100low · 17%
Zabbix52 / 100low · 17%
Pricing
Free tier
Nagios✓
Zabbix✓
Model
Price level
Nagiosfree
Zabbixfree
Transparent
Nagios–
Zabbix✓
Integrations
Count
Nagios4,000
Zabbix22
Security
Gdpr
Nagios–
Zabbix✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Nagios

A free, community-supported monitoring system that helps organizations detect infrastructure issues and prevent downtime by monitoring servers, networks, applications, and services. It offers a modular plugin architecture for extensibility and includes optional web-based dashboards and visualization tools.

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.

Nagios

Open sourceFree tier
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
Nagios✓
Zabbix✓
macOS
Nagios✓
Zabbix✓
Windows
Nagios✓
Zabbix✓
Linux
Nagios✓
Zabbix✓
CLI
Nagios✓
Zabbix✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Nagios✗
Zabbix✓
Self-hosted
Nagios✓
Zabbix✓
On-premise
Nagios✓
Zabbix✓
Hybrid
Nagios✗
Zabbix✓

Integrations

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

In common (4)
  • Prometheus
  • VMware
  • MSSQL
  • IPMI

Nagios

26 total - 22 not shared
  • Grafana
  • InfluxDB
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • IIS
  • Tomcat
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • LDAP
  • Active Directory
  • JBoss
  • WebLogic
  • Citrix
  • PagerDuty
  • Slack
  • ServiceNow
  • DB2
  • EC2
  • Hyper-V
Independently observed

Zabbix

22 total - 18 not shared
  • SNMP
  • Java
  • SSH
  • Telnet
  • NETCONF
  • SFTP
  • ODBC
  • ICMP
  • TCP
  • Modbus
  • MQTT
  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • vCenter
  • Veeam Backup and Replication
  • Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
  • RabbitMQ
  • GCP
Independently observed

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