3 categories · RankedZabbix
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 18% | 3 of 65 | 25% | 44 | criticized challenger |
| Incident management and on-call | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 38 of 53 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by incident.io at 25% |
| Observability platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 56 of 63 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 29% |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Choose Zabbix if you have infrastructure-heavy or hybrid estates where budget and data control matter” Kimi K2 · Infra monitoring · comparative prompt · first choice
“The best infrastructure monitoring tool for a company with a limited budget is likely to be Zabbix” Llama 4 Maverick · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · first choice
“If you have engineering time but no budget, Zabbix is the most comprehensive free option.” Mistral Small · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · first choice
“If you have technical skills: Go with Zabbix - it's completely free with no limits” MiniMax M2.5 · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Who to avoid: Older, static monitoring platforms (like early versions of Nagios or basic configurations of Zabbix)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative
“Why avoid: While powerful, it has a notoriously steep learning curve.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative
“don't adopt Zabbix unless you have dedicated monitoring engineers” Kimi K2 · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative
“Self-Hosted / Open Source: (e.g., Prometheus + Grafana, Zabbix) ... Requires dedicated DevOps/SRE expertise” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Infra monitoring · scale prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 102 of the 128 answers that named Zabbix and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
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Pages cited
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