# Thanos vs Zabbix

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Thanos

| Attribute | Thanos | Zabbix |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59.4 (52% (medium)) | 53.6 (21% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 52 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1,266 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 14,234 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"CNCF Incubating project extending Prometheus with global query view across multiple servers, unlimited retention via object storage, and downsampling capabilities. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://thanos.io","question":"What is Thanos?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Thanos is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://thanos.io","question":"Is Thanos free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Thanos supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://thanos.io","question":"What platforms does Thanos support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Thanos can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://thanos.io","question":"Can Thanos be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 8 integrations for Thanos, including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTSDB, S3, GCP, Azure, Swift and Tencent COS. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://thanos.io","question":"What does Thanos integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Thanos is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos","question":"Is Thanos open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"Zabbix is a distributed monitoring solution that collects metrics and logs from IT infrastructure, applications, and network devices. It provides dashboards for visualization and delivers alerts through multiple channels when issues are detected. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://www.zabbix.com","question":"What is Zabbix?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Zabbix is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $325 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.zabbix.com","question":"Is Zabbix free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Zabbix supports the web, Windows, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.zabbix.com","question":"What platforms does Zabbix support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Zabbix can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.zabbix.com","question":"Can Zabbix be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 41 integrations for Zabbix, including SNMP, Java, IPMI, SSH, Telnet, NETCONF, SFTP and ODBC, plus 33 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.zabbix.com","question":"What does Zabbix integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Zabbix. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Zabbix not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.zabbix.com","question":"What security certifications does Zabbix have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Zabbix is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in Latvia.","source":"https://www.zabbix.com","question":"Where is Zabbix available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | CNCF Incubating project extending Prometheus with global query view across multiple servers, unlimited retention via object storage, and downsampling capabilities. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":false,"logs":false,"hosting":"self","metrics":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true}` |
| integrations.count | 8 | 45 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"OpenTSDB"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Swift"},{"name":"Tencent COS"},{"name":"Alertmanager","native":true,"category":"alerting"}]` | `[{"name":"SNMP"},{"name":"Java"},{"name":"IPMI"},{"name":"SSH"},{"name":"Telnet"},{"name":"NETCONF"},{"name":"SFTP"},{"name":"ODBC"},{"name":"ICMP"},{"name":"TCP"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Modbus"},{"name":"MQTT"},{"name":"HTTP"},{"name":"HTTPS"},{"name":"VMware"},{"name":"vCenter"},{"name":"Veeam Backup and Replication"},{"name":"Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"MSSQL"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"MS Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Pushover","native":true,"category":"alerting","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"ilert","native":true,"category":"alerting","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"ManageEngine ServiceDesk","native":true,"category":"itsm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"PagerDuty","category":"on_call","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Hipchat","category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"alerta","category":"monitoring","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure","category":"cloud","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Docker","category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Elasticsearch","category":"logging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"InfluxDB","category":"metrics","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Graylog","category":"logging","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Jenkins","category":"ci_cd","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Oracle DB","category":"database","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"CloudStack","category":"cloud","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Nextcloud","category":"storage","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"HAProxy","category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Service Now","category":"itsm"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"LV","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://thanos.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T17:01:37.783Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Silver","summary":"$325/month, billed annually","features":["Online support","1 support contact","8x5 support availability","1 day initial response time","Unlimited monitored devices and metrics"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":325,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Online support with business-hours availability and one primary support contact","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Gold","summary":"From $825/month, billed annually","features":["Phone and online support","2 support contacts","8x5 support availability","4 hour initial response time","Distributed monitoring","Online education","5 Zabbix Online Training Vouchers (Tier 1)","1 Zabbix Summit full ticket","Unlimited monitored devices and metrics"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":825,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Phone and online support during business hours with two support contacts, includes distributed monitoring and training","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Phone and online support","3 support contacts","24x7 support availability","2 hour initial response time","Distributed monitoring","Remote troubleshooting","Performance tuning","Environment review","Upgrades by Zabbix team","40 hours remote consultancy","30 Zabbix Online Training Vouchers (Tier 1)","10 Tier 2 training vouchers","3 Zabbix Summit full tickets"],"commitment":"annual","description":"24/7 support with three contacts, includes performance tuning, environment review, and 40 hours of remote consultancy","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing, enterprise-grade support","features":["Phone and online support","7 support contacts","24x7 support availability","1.5 hour initial response time","1 hour emergency response time","Assigned Customer Success Manager","Remote troubleshooting","Performance tuning","Environment review","Upgrades by Zabbix team","80 hours remote consultancy","100 Zabbix Online Training Vouchers (Tier 1)","30 Tier 2 training vouchers","High availability","Unlimited deployments","Multiple legal entities","Hands-on assistance"],"commitment":"annual","description":"24/7 premium support with seven contacts, assigned customer success manager, hands-on assistance, and 80 hours of consultancy","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Global","summary":"Custom pricing, premium global support","features":["Phone and online support","20 support contacts","24x7 support availability","1 hour initial response time","1 hour emergency response time","Assigned Customer Success Manager","Remote troubleshooting","Performance tuning","Environment review","Upgrades by Zabbix team","High availability","Unlimited deployments","Multiple legal entities","Hands-on assistance","Annual Q&A session with product owners"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Premium global support with twenty contacts and strategic assistance across unlimited deployments and multiple entities","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open-source software with optional subscriptions from $325/month (Silver). All subscriptions include support SLAs and 5 years of security fixes.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.zabbix.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-16T21:34:30.194Z","freeTrialDays":5,"startingPrice":{"amount":325,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | - | no |
| release.cadence_days | 6 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.4","date":"2026-07-30T14:33:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.3","date":"2026-07-29T10:49:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.2","date":"2026-07-17T06:51:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.1","date":"2026-07-16T19:45:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.0","date":"2026-07-08T14:44:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.0-rc.2","date":"2026-06-30T13:06:27Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.42.0-rc.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.0-rc.1","date":"2026-06-25T07:16:42Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.42.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.41.0","date":"2026-02-12T10:32:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.41.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.41.0-rc.1","date":"2026-02-11T10:41:41Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.41.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.41.0-rc.0","date":"2026-02-09T14:03:57Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.41.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.40.1","date":"2025-10-28T18:13:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.40.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.40.0","date":"2025-10-27T11:24:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.40.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.40.0-rc.0","date":"2025-10-21T13:02:52Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.40.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.2","date":"2025-07-21T06:51:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.39.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.1","date":"2025-07-01T13:03:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.39.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.0","date":"2025-06-25T11:54:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.39.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.0-rc.0","date":"2025-06-20T04:45:58Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.39.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.38.0","date":"2025-04-03T12:14:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.38.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.38.0-rc.1","date":"2025-04-01T07:07:33Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.38.0-rc.0","date":"2025-03-25T14:05:25Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-rc.0"}]` | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 8.3 | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fthanos-io%2Fthanos&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Thanos | Zabbix |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Signals** |  |  |
| Metrics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Log management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ | - |
| Application performance monitoring | ✗ | - |
| Real-user monitoring | - | - |
| **Response** |  |  |
| Alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-call / incident management | - | - |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Dashboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry-native | ✓ | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Self-hosted only | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-15T21:19:29.910Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*