Prometheus vs Zabbix
A side-by-side comparison of Prometheus and Zabbix — stars, license, self-host difficulty, deploy options, and what each replaces.
| Tagline | Industry-standard metrics monitoring and alerting toolkit with PromQL | Enterprise-grade real-time monitoring for networks, servers, and applications |
| Category | Monitoring & Status Pages | Monitoring & Status Pages |
| Replaces | Datadog | Datadog |
| GitHub stars | 65k | 6k |
| Language | Go | C |
| License | Apache-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 4/5 Involved | 4/5 Involved |
| Deploy options | Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual | Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 4 days ago | 6 days ago |
| View repo | View repo |
