IIS vs Zenoss Cloud comparison

Microsoft and Zenoss are both solutions in the Application Infrastructure category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.5, while Zenoss is ranked #28. Microsoft holds a 10.2% mindshare in AIS, compared to Zenoss’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Zenoss users who would recommend it.

IIS

Read 61 IIS reviews

3,165 Views
2,121 Comparison Views

90% willing to recommend

Zenoss Cloud

Read 8 Zenoss Cloud reviews

2,016 Views
121 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

IIS

Zenoss Cloud

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Zenoss Cloud and IIS compete in infrastructure management. IIS often holds an advantage with robust features that many find justify its cost.

Features: Zenoss Cloud offers real-time analytics, proactive alerting capabilities, and extensive monitoring across cloud and on-premise infrastructures. IIS is known for its web server management, seamless integration with Microsoft ecosystems, and high performance through application isolation.

Room for Improvement: Zenoss Cloud could enhance integration options and simplify user interface complexities for non-technical users. IIS might improve ease of use for Linux users and offer more detailed analytics features. Both could work on reducing setup complexities for beginners.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zenoss Cloud provides flexible deployment with strong remote support. Its customer service is often praised for responsiveness. IIS offers straightforward deployment within Windows environments but may require more technical expertise. It benefits from extensive documentation and a strong community support network.

Pricing and ROI: Zenoss Cloud's scalable pricing models are recognized for reducing downtime and enhancing system reliability, offering strong ROI. IIS may have initial setup costs but provides substantial ROI through robust application support and long-term cost-effectiveness by integrating with Microsoft products.

To learn more, read our detailed IIS vs. Zenoss Cloud Report (Updated: December 2025).

Buyer's Guide

IIS vs. Zenoss Cloud

December 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 881,082 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

IIS

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Server (4th)

Zenoss Cloud

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

28th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Event Monitoring (13th), Network Monitoring Software (76th), Server Monitoring (26th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (52nd), Container Monitoring (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (43rd), AIOps (24th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of IIS is 10.2%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zenoss Cloud is 1.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Infrastructure Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IIS	10.2%
Zenoss Cloud	1.2%
Other	88.6%

Application Infrastructure

Featured Reviews

Krishnakumar Natarajan

Systems Engineer at Atos

Designs and manages multiple websites while ensuring data backup and disaster recovery

I have experience with AWS, and I am most familiar with the server environment, as we just use the server environment and then use Microsoft products on an AWS environment. I have experience with Windows Server IIS, which I ran on my own on-premise data center. The website was developed and then hosted, and through IIS, we managed the servers. The manageability within the IIS environment is not very difficult. For server management, you need to ensure data backup, data restore, and you have a DR configured to keep the database intact. It was done on-premises, so I had no problem doing that. If you have to go to the cloud, then you should have the storage connected to the IIS server and also have a DR set up for that. I didn't use Microsoft Azure tools, but since it is a Microsoft product, Azure has all the portability, so you don't have to worry about compatibility on the cloud. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate this solution a 10.

Read full review

ClaudiaChen

Cloud Architect - Senior Technology Architect at Telstra

Generates close to real-time alerts so users can resolve issues, but needs more integration and public cloud monitoring features

As Zenoss Service Dynamics is more for network-centric devices and you want to monitor, for example, a server, its services, IP addresses, and interfaces, if it's a network and you're going to monitor multiple items, you'll be charged multiple times. This is what Zenoss Service Dynamics needs to improve to make sure that customers pay just one fee to monitor the entire server. What I'd like to see in Zenoss Service Dynamics in the future is a public cloud monitoring feature, particularly for the Azure public cloud. Another additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is integration with the Azure public cloud because I know that there are some services from Azure that Zenoss Service Dynamics is currently unable to monitor.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is easy to use and connects with Microsoft."

"The solution is easy to use, easy to maintain and isn't too technical."

"IIS's best features are its management console and stability."

"It's good and offers good usability."

"The most valuable feature of IIS is the database it provides."

"The solution integrates well with most Microsoft products."

"The product is flexible."

"The solution has been reliable."

More IIS pros

"The most valuable feature is the flexible discovery mechanism."

"They have also accommodated many state-of-the-art technologies like Docker and ZooKeeper."

"It's easy to use."

"Its Docker Container concept is mind blowing. It is the first monitoring tool which comes with Docker features."

"The custom built integration is one of the most valuable features because you can see all the especially critical items."

"The product offers good documentation that helps with initial training."

"What I like most about Zenoss Service Dynamics is that it monitors the devices and gives close to real-time alerts. For example, in case the device is not available, Zenoss Service Dynamics generates an alert so my team can resolve the issue."

Cons

"The only disadvantage I see is that the documentation is a bit difficult to find."

"The areas of this solution that need improvement are monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting."

"Sometimes, we encounter difficult issues, and getting support from Microsoft to resolve those issues is not easy."

"The security must be improved."

"The scalability depends on how you have set it up. If you're running IIS on a single server, it might not be as capable as if you are on many in a cluster or with load balancing and so on."

"IIS could improve the error logging. There are times we are not able to see the errors. More details would be helpful. Additionally, the configuring of the IIS should be allowed through coding instead of the classic view."

"We'd like future versions to be more stable."

"IIS has some stability issues and needs restarting."

More IIS cons

"The AI aspect needs to improve."

"The inclusion of a feature to show a graphical view of the network would be a helpful improvement."

"There is room for improvement with the administrative part. They introduced Control Center to manage things in Zenoss 5. The services that Zenoss provides remained the same, but the administrative part, since they introduced Docker, etc., has become a little complex"

"As Zenoss Service Dynamics is more for network-centric devices and you want to monitor, for example, a server, its services, IP addresses, and interfaces, if it's a network and you're going to monitor multiple items, you'll be charged multiple times. This is what Zenoss Service Dynamics needs to improve to make sure that customers pay just one fee to monitor the entire server. What I'd like to see in Zenoss Service Dynamics in the future is a public cloud monitoring feature, particularly for the Azure public cloud. Another additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is integration with the Azure public cloud because I know that there are some services from Azure that Zenoss Service Dynamics is currently unable to monitor."

"Now it is stable, but they should design threshold parameters in percentage instead of raw values."

"There was a problem with Zenoss and storage monitoring."

"It would be ideal if the product offered sound alerts."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is good."

"The solution provides multiple licensing options."

"IIS's pricing is reasonable."

"Users can get a subscription-based license or a perpetual license for IIS."

"They offer a one-time payment model for the product license, and we pay annually for support."

"There is an annual license to use this solution and the price could be better."

"I think it's part of the Windows Server, so you won't have any other costs to add in order to use the IIS service."

"We purchased a Microsoft Windows license and the license for IIS came in the package."

More IIS pricing and cost advice

"The pricing depends on the environment, the number of services, and the size of the data center. It can go from $100,000 to a million dollars."

"It depends on the customer, what he wants."

"There are additional costs you'll have to pay apart from the license fee for Zenoss Service Dynamics. I can't remember exactly how much my company is paying because I don't handle the finance part, but the cost is paid annually. On a scale of one to five, with one being the cheapest and five being the most expensive, I'm rating the solution three out of five."

"It is very cost-effective compared to the tools I worked with in the past. The company is gaining a lot with respect to the cost factor. It provides agentless monitoring and in a very cheap way."

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Application Infrastructure solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

881,082 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Comms Service Provider

Government

No data available

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	29
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	22

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

Which is better - IIS or NGINX Plus?

IIS is a flexible, secure, and manageable web server to host anything on the web. IIS’s scalable and open architecture can handle the most demanding tasks. From media streaming to web applications,...

See all answers

What do you like most about IIS?

The product is flexible.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IIS?

For the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for IIS, as a Microsoft product, I didn't think much about separately purchasing an IIS product as it is part of Microsoft Windows. We bought a developmen...

See all answers

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

In my experience, I worked with many monitoring software, but the one that gave me the most functionalities of a large-scale company is Zenoss, due to its ability to monitor completely hybrid and a...

See all answers

Comparisons

Apache Web Server vs IIS

Compared 23% of the time

NGINX Plus vs IIS

Compared 22% of the time

Tomcat vs IIS

Compared 8% of the time

Oracle WebLogic Server vs IIS

Compared 6% of the time

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) vs IIS

Compared 6% of the time

More IIS Competitors

Nagios XI vs Zenoss Cloud

Compared 7% of the time

Zabbix vs Zenoss Cloud

Compared 6% of the time

SCOM vs Zenoss Cloud

Compared 5% of the time

Nagios Core vs Zenoss Cloud

Compared 5% of the time

Splunk AppDynamics vs Zenoss Cloud

Compared 4% of the time

More Zenoss Cloud Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

IIS

January 2026

Download IIS product report

Buyer's Guide

Zenoss Cloud

January 2026

Download Zenoss Cloud product report

Also Known As

Windows Server IIS

Cloud Monitoring, Zenoss Service Dynamics

Overview

Internet Information Services (IIS) provides a secure, easy-to-manage, modular and extensible platform for reliably hosting websites, services and applications. With IIS, you get choice and control without giving up reliability or security.

Microsoft

Zenoss Cloud revolutionizes IT infrastructure monitoring with a service-centric approach, prioritizing the overall health of services and applications. Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIOps), Zenoss Cloud offers end-to-end visibility across servers, networks, storage, and applications. Real-time monitoring, event correlation, and automated remediation ensure immediate insights and efficient issue resolution. The customizable dashboards empower users to tailor visualizations to their needs, while scalability accommodates diverse infrastructures. Zenoss Cloud guarantees improved application performance, reduced downtime, and enhanced IT efficiency, making it an ideal choice for businesses of all sizes, from small enterprises seeking simplicity to large corporations requiring advanced scalability. Experience unified monitoring and proactive management with Zenoss Cloud, a comprehensive solution that transforms IT infrastructure optimization in today's complex environments.

Zenoss

Sample Customers

Erste Bank Group, NJVC, Samsung Electronics, Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, Tata Steel Europe, Urban Software Institute

2degrees, Rackspace, State of North Dakota, El Paso Independent School District, NWN Corporation

Buyer's Guide

IIS vs. Zenoss Cloud

December 2025

Free Report: IIS vs. Zenoss Cloud

Find out what your peers are saying about IIS vs. Zenoss Cloud and other solutions. Updated: December 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

881,082 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our IIS vs. Zenoss Cloud report.

See our list of best Application Infrastructure vendors.

We monitor all Application Infrastructure reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.