| Attribute |  ZabbixOpen source |  GrafanaOpen source |  DatadogOther license |  PrometheusOpen source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||||
| Primary focus | Open-source infrastructure and network monitoring with agent-based checks | Open source dashboards and observability across many data sources | Observe infrastructure and applications | Open-source, pull-based metrics monitoring and alerting toolkit |
| Deployment | Self-hosted / Web | Self-hosted / Web | Web | Self-hosted |
| Source model | Open source | Open source | Other license | Open source |
| Pricing model | open source | freemium | paid | open source |
| API available | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows desktop | Not specified | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile app | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified |
| Overview | Zabbix monitors servers, network devices, applications and cloud services using agents, SNMP, and other collection methods, with built-in alerting, templates, and high-availability clustering. | Grafana is an open source visualization and dashboarding platform that queries metrics, logs, and traces from Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and dozens of other backends, with Grafana Cloud offering a hosted option. | Datadog collects infrastructure metrics, logs, traces, and other signals so teams can investigate services and configure alerts. | Prometheus scrapes time-series metrics from instrumented targets, stores them locally, and evaluates alerting rules with PromQL, forwarding alerts to Alertmanager. It has no built-in dashboarding or long-term storage layer of its own. |
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