When comparing Zabbix vs netdata, the Slant community recommends netdata for most people. In the question“What are the best IT infrastructure monitoring tools?” netdata is ranked 1st while Zabbix is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose netdata is:
Very nice UI with a good overview and nice colours.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Collection of any data
Pro Agents for all platforms.
Pro Trending
Define triggers to, for instance alert if a filesystem will run full within a week at the current usage increment rate.
Pro Metrics based triggers
Unlike Icinga/Nagios Zabbix is build to trigger alerts or other actions based on a ruleset defined on the server.
This makes it easy to setup different triggers/alerts per host and/or host group.
Pro Great graphs and network maps
Pro Availability and SLA reporting
Pro True Open Source software
Pro Pleasant UI
Very nice UI with a good overview and nice colours.
Pro Plug and play
No need to configure anything to get started.
Pro Access via web
NetData is accessible via the web. So even remote hosts can be monitored.
Pro Smooth installation and setup
Cons
Con Only in browser (if you use it together with atop, you can do without though)
The application is only accessible via the web browser. So if it's not running it has to be started and then accessed via the browser.