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Comparison

Sumo Logic vs Zabbix

No leader: the top candidate Zabbix has only 0.21 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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Sumo Logic53
Zabbix54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Sumo Logic53 / 100medium · 59%
Zabbix54 / 100low · 21%
Pricing
Free tier
Sumo Logic–
Zabbix✓
Model
Sumo Logiccommercial
Zabbixfreemium
Price level
Sumo Logicunknown
Zabbixlow
Transparent
Sumo Logic✗
Zabbix✗
Integrations
Count
Sumo Logic20
Zabbix45
Security
Fedramp
Sumo Logic✓
Zabbix–
Gdpr
Sumo Logic–
Zabbix✓
Iso27001
Sumo Logic✓
Zabbix–
Pci
Sumo Logic✓
Zabbix–
Soc2
Sumo Logic✓
Zabbix–
Reliability
Status page
Sumo Logic✓
Zabbix–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Sumo Logic7 items
Zabbix7 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Sumo Logic

A cloud platform that ingests logs, metrics, and trace data from applications and infrastructure. It provides interactive dashboards and automated alerting based on detected patterns and anomalies.

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.

Sumo Logic

Subscription30-day trial

30-day free trial. Unlimited users. Predictable pricing.

  • EssentialsFree
  • Enterprise SuiteContact sales
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
Sumo Logic✓
Zabbix✓
Windows
Sumo Logic✗
Zabbix✓
Linux
Sumo Logic✗
Zabbix✓
CLI
Sumo Logic✓
Zabbix✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Sumo Logic✓
Zabbix✓
Self-hosted
Sumo Logic✗
Zabbix✓
On-premise
Sumo Logic✗
Zabbix✓

Integrations

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

In common (5)
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Prometheus
  • Kubernetes

Sumo Logic

20 total - 15 not shared
  • AWS Lambda
  • FluentD
  • JavaScript
  • Kinesis
  • Logback
  • Logstash
  • Log4J
  • Log4j2
  • Maven
  • .NET
  • Okta
  • Scala
  • CollectD
  • StatsD
  • OpenTelemetry
Independently observed

Zabbix

43 total - 38 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
  • +14 more
Independently observed
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