Device42 vs Zabbix

Device42 provides agentless discovery, asset management, and dependency mapping for data center, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. Its scope includes CMDB, DCIM, ITAM, IPAM, password management, and application dependency mapping, in a self-hosted deployment. It can discover network devices through SNMP and cloud resources across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and OpenStack.

For data centers, its visual models cover buildings, rooms, racks, cabling, and patch panels, with power and temperature heat maps. Core includes discovery, inventory and asset management, integrations, REST APIs and webhooks, warranty and SSL certificate management, cable and password management, and IPAM. Device42 also tracks software licenses, contracts, and barcodes, and lists more than 30 integrations. Licenses count devices with IP addresses; non-IP assets do not count, and user seats are unlimited. If the device limit is exceeded, the software keeps running but stops collecting additional information until the license is increased. Pricing is available on request, and a free trial is offered.

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring and observability solution for infrastructure, applications, networks and services. It collects metrics from network devices, cloud services, containers, virtual machines, logs, databases, applications, IoT sensors and external API endpoints. Collection can use push or pull, with polling intervals as short as one second. Monitoring can use agents for Linux, Solaris, AIX, macOS, BSD and Windows, or agentless methods such as SNMP, IPMI, SSH/Telnet, ODBC, ICMP, TCP, Prometheus, Modbus and MQTT. Agents support TLS or shared-key encryption. Synthetic monitoring can run multi-step browser scenarios, capture screenshots, measure performance and availability, and alert on discovered problems. Integrations include templates and solutions for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Cisco, Docker and Android. A free plan and a five-day trial are listed; paid service starts at $50/mo. Monitored hosts, devices, applications, users, metrics and alerts are listed as unlimited, while supported server and proxy counts vary by subscription. Support availability and response targets also vary by tier.