AD monitoring is also supported by the PRTG tool, whereas custom scripting is required in the Zabbix tool. On the other hand, the Zabbix monitoring tool does not such functionality. The PRTG monitoring tool supports the monitoring of LDAP services that is an important functionality. One of the key differences between the monitoring tool Zabbix and PRTG is monitoring the active directory. The Zabbix monitoring tool provides monitoring of the health of fan speed, disk states, voltages, and many more. The PRTG monitoring tool supports monitoring the health of printers, hard drive, virtual arrays, blade servers, voltage and temperature, cisco device, and many more. The PRTG tool has a ticketing system that generates tickets, whereas in the Zabbix tool, there is no ticket generating system, and the tool uses a manual approach only. The PRTG tool supports QoS monitoring for Cisco, VoIP, and many more, whereas the Zabbix tool does not support any kind of this functionality. One of the key differences between both the monitoring tool is the monitoring of QoS and SLA. The Zabbix supports SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL database monitoring, whereas the PRTG tool supports SQL, REST, MySQL, and PostgreSQL database monitoring. This is one of the other differences between both the monitoring tool. The Zabbix agent collects the data from the client machine and sends it to the Zabbix server for monitoring purposes.

However, in the Zabbix tool, the Zabbix agent is installed on the client machine, whereas no such concept is there PRTG tool. Automatic scanning of networkīoth the tool Zabbix and PRTG tool supports the automatic scanning of the network. As the PRTG offers a paid version, the community support is better compared to Zabbix.

When the tool is available as a free version, the community support is not so good in free software compared to a paid one.

In PRTG tool free version, the monitoring can be done upto 100 sensors, and if the requirement is more, the user can select the paid version of the PRTG tool. The Zabbix tool is an open-source tool, whereas PRTG provides both paid and free versions. One of the most crucial key differences between Zabbix and PRTG tools is the price. Below are the key differences between Zabbix vs PRTG: 1.

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