We performed a comparison between SCOM and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"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."
"It's easy to use."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."
"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"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."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
"Its UI needs to be improved a little bit more so that an end-user is also able to handle it. I can handle it, but others should also be able to handle it in a better way. It becomes complex when we are growing and need to add proxies. We need more scalability features and documentation for different use cases. A lot of articles are available, but they need to be in proper documentation. For example, when you have thousands of servers that have to be monitored in different regions of the world, there should be some kind of documentation to describe how you can create proxies and add them. Sometimes, when you are using the database, it can get overloaded. When the network is growing, the number of transactions becomes very high, and the database gets overloaded. There should be information about how to reduce the load on the MySQL database, which is what Zabbix is using. The market is growing a lot, and it should be enhanced for a lot more things. We are currently bringing enhancements at our end for different use cases. For example, when dockerization is going on, how can we check the logs inside the Dockers. We should also be able to monitor and check the number of logins and add features such as SSO login and two-factor authentication as a protocol. These are the security features and concerns that we have to deal with. Currently, we are developing modules to add features to Zabbix, but they should also work on these features."
"The product could be more secure and more stable."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."
"The stability could be better."
"The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API."
SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 13 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews. SCOM is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "Easy to scale, offers helpful maintenance schedules, and free online training is available". 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, PRTG Network Monitor, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and AppDynamics, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Centreon, Splunk and Amazon CloudWatch. See our SCOM vs. Zabbix report.
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