# Elastic Observability vs Zabbix

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Elastic Observability

| Attribute | Elastic Observability | Zabbix |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 64.6 (60% (medium)) | 52.1 (17% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 77,862 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A unified observability platform that ingests logs, metrics, and traces to provide real-time system insights powered by AI agents. Elastic Observability automates root cause analysis and incident response while maintaining operator visibility and control, with support for open standards and multi-cloud deployment. | 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 |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true}` |
| integrations.count | 450 | 22 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI Service"},{"name":"Google Vertex AI"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Meta"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"Unstructured.io"},{"name":"Aryn"},{"name":"Vectorize.io"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"Filebeat"},{"name":"Metricbeat"},{"name":"Heartbeat"},{"name":"Elastic Agent"},{"name":"Red Hat"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | - |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"LV","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"quote","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free and open source","features":["Elasticsearch","Kibana","Data ingestion via OTel, Logstash, Beats","Native authentication and TLS encryption","Basic monitoring","APM, logging, metrics","Alerting","Community support"],"description":"Open source Elasticsearch and Kibana stack","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","summary":"Contact sales","features":["Everything in Free","Single sign-on (SSO), LDAP/Active Directory","Field/document-level security","Audit logging","Anomaly detection for logs/metrics","ELSER semantic search","Cross-cluster replication","Automated threat discovery with ML","Behavioral ransomware protection","Log categorization","Service maps","Tail-based sampling","Service Level Objectives","APM correlations","24/7/365 premium support"],"description":"Advanced security, machine learning, and high availability","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Contact sales","features":["Everything in Platinum","Searchable snapshots on S3","Attack Discovery (GenAI security)","Universal Profiling","Cross-cluster search","Elastic Agent Builder for RAG","Jina AI models for semantic search","Inference Service Management","Hybrid search and RAG","Semantic reranking","Learn-to-Rank personalization","DiskBBQ for vector optimization","Elastic Workflows","Endpoint response actions","Elastic AI Assistant for Observability","AI-assisted log parsing","Reduced storage for logs/metrics/traces","Central as-code configuration"],"description":"Advanced AI, searchable snapshots, and comprehensive orchestration","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier available. Platinum and Enterprise require contacting sales.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:09:40.919Z","freeTrialDays":14}` | `{"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 | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.2","date":"2026-08-20T16:44:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.1","date":"2026-08-11T17:58:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.5","date":"2026-08-11T17:57:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.20","date":"2026-08-11T18:24:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.0","date":"2026-08-04T11:46:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.4","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.8","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.19","date":"2026-07-21T13:28:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.18","date":"2026-06-30T16:43:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.7","date":"2026-06-30T16:47:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.3","date":"2026-06-30T14:30:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.17","date":"2026-06-23T13:59:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.6","date":"2026-06-23T14:09:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.2","date":"2026-05-28T14:59:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.5","date":"2026-05-28T14:59:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.16","date":"2026-05-28T14:59:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.1","date":"2026-05-12T18:02:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.0","date":"2026-05-05T15:15:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.15","date":"2026-04-30T15:24:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.4","date":"2026-04-30T15:24:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.4"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.9 | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":45,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Elastic Observability | 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 | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:07:14.738Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*