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.
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"The stability has been great."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"The price could be improved."
"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."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"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."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."
"It could be more stable."
"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."
"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."
"The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
SCOM is ranked 14th in Network Monitoring Software with 15 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 43 reviews. SCOM is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "We can monitor all the VMs in our environment and access full insight reports for all the VMs, but the solution is not stable". 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, LogicMonitor, Nagios XI and AppDynamics, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Splunk, Centreon and Pandora FMS. See our SCOM vs. Zabbix report.
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