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At a Glance
Market Segments
Small-Business (57.4% of reviews)
Mid-Market (51.7% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0.00 Per Month
Free With One-Time Purchase
Scout Monitoring
Star Rating
(69)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (57.4% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Not enough data
Entry-Level Pricing
$0.00 Per Month
Browse all 6 pricing plansZabbix
Star Rating
(207)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (51.7% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free With One-Time Purchase
Browse all 3 pricing plansScout Monitoring vs Zabbix
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Scout Monitoring easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Scout Monitoring overall.
- Reviewers felt that Scout Monitoring meets the needs of their business better than Zabbix.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Scout Monitoring is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Zabbix over Scout Monitoring.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Scout Monitoring
The FREE plan
$0.00
Per Month
Up to 300K transactions/mo · 5,000 errors · 1 GB logs · Unlimited apps · No per-seat, host, or instance fees
- 30-Day Metric Retention
- App Performance Monitoring
- Error Monitoring
Zabbix
Free & open source Zabbix
Free
With One-Time Purchase
Zabbix can monitor anything - networks, cloud, websites, IoT, and more.
Any time and anywhere. Zabbix is free and open source. Download it and start using it.
- Free and open source, easy scalable.
Free Trial
Scout Monitoring
Free Trial is available
Zabbix
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.0
52
8.8
175
Ease of Use
9.2
52
7.4
175
Ease of Setup
9.6
23
7.5
107
Ease of Admin
9.6
23
8.0
102
Quality of Support
9.4
43
8.0
130
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.5
22
8.2
80
Product Direction (% positive)
8.0
47
8.5
173
Features by Category
Functionality
Not enough data
8.7
25
Not enough data
9.1
25
Not enough data
8.4
24
Not enough data
8.2
25
Not enough data
8.3
25
Not enough data
8.3
25
Agentic AI - Database Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
9.3
47
Not enough data
9.2
48
Not enough data
6.9
40
Not enough data
9.0
44
Monitoring - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Management
Not enough data
8.8
45
Not enough data
8.5
47
Not enough data
7.8
42
Analytics - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Security - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Network Performance - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
AI Automation - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
5.3
5
Not enough data
7.0
5
Not enough data
5.7
5
Agentic AI - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
9.2
33
Not enough data
8.7
29
Not enough data
8.9
30
Not enough data
9.1
33
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
Not enough data
8.9
31
Not enough data
8.9
30
Not enough data
9.1
28
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analysis
Not enough data
8.9
32
Not enough data
8.8
33
Not enough data
8.0
25
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Bug Reporting
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Bug Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Bug Tracking
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
Not enough data
8.2
33
Not enough data
8.9
33
Not enough data
8.3
32
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
9.0
29
Not enough data
7.9
29
Not enough data
8.3
30
Not enough data
8.9
31
Agentic AI - Hardware Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
Not enough data
8.6
43
Not enough data
8.8
43
Not enough data
8.5
42
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.8
42
Not enough data
7.9
38
Not enough data
8.4
38
Not enough data
8.8
44
Not enough data
8.9
27
Not enough data
8.3
25
Cloud environment support
Not enough data
8.3
24
Not enough data
8.5
22
Agentic AI - Server Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
9.2
20
Not enough data
9.2
20
Not enough data
8.6
19
Not enough data
7.6
9
Management
Not enough data
9.1
20
Not enough data
8.8
22
Not enough data
8.8
20
Not enough data
9.3
22
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring
Not enough data
5.3
5
Not enough data
5.7
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
6.7
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Monitoring
8.6
11
8.5
13
8.9
11
8.8
14
9.2
10
8.8
14
Feature Not Available
8.1
8
8.7
9
8.9
15
Response
8.6
11
8.8
15
8.1
9
8.7
15
8.7
9
8.1
12
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance
6.7
7
Feature Not Available
7.9
8
8.5
12
Functionality
8.1
6
8.3
13
8.1
6
7.9
12
6.7
7
Feature Not Available
7.1
7
8.2
14
Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Observability Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Features - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Scout Monitoring and Zabbix are categorized as Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Unique Categories
Scout Monitoring is categorized as Bug Tracking
Zabbix is categorized as Server Monitoring, Hardware Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Enterprise Monitoring, Database Monitoring, and Observability Software
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Scout Monitoring
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Zabbix
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Computer Software
26.5%
Information Technology and Services
14.7%
Financial Services
5.9%
Internet
4.4%
Education Management
4.4%
Other
44.1%
Information Technology and Services
29.6%
Telecommunications
15.8%
Computer Software
11.8%
Computer & Network Security
5.9%
Internet
3.9%
Other
33.0%
Discussions
How it compares with other tools like Datadog or New Relic?
1 Comment
Official Response from Scout Monitoring
Scout is built in Ruby on Rails and provides better visualizations of performance abnormalities in Ruby applications than New Relic or DataDog. Customers who...Read more
Is there any way to trigger alerts for background jobs?
1 Comment
Official Response from Scout Monitoring
We DO support alerting for background jobs - here is a link to our docs and the section on setting up alerting for background jobs:...Read more
What is APM software?
1 Comment
Official Response from Scout Monitoring
APM stands for Application Performance Monitoring and allows developers to see exactly what your applications are doing, and why, while they execute the...Read more
Has a way zabbix to work without agents?
2 Comments
JO
Zabbix does not require agents to use, you can setup templates to use SNMP data, however you'll gain more insight by using the appropriate agent on the...Read more
What is Zabbix used for?
2 Comments
RP
Overall infrastructure monitoring with lots of additional features like alerting, prediction monitoring.Read more
What can you monitor with Zabbix?
1 Comment
LS
Every windows and linux device. You have to install an agent on all the devices you want to monitorRead more
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