"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"The flexibility of this solution is amazing."
"The initial setup was very quick. The first time it was long because I didn't know it yet. I was only using Windows. The first time was very difficult because of the operating system."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."
"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."
"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great."
SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 15 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 49 reviews. SCOM is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "Feature rich, scalable and user-friendly, but open-source products are free and do the same thing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and AppDynamics, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Centreon, Nagios Core, Splunk and Amazon CloudWatch. See our SCOM vs. Zabbix report.
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