We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The job subsystem, monitoring subsystem, alerting, grouping of targets, and reporting features are valuable to us."
"It is a scalable solution. So far, my company has not faced any issues with the scalability part of the solution."
"We can manage everything in our environment."
"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager for a lot of services like ERP and PLM."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager has eased the responsibilities among our DBAs. We can now assign individual tasks to separate DBAs."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring because it's very useful for checking and troubleshooting compared with other products, like Nagios for example, that have some interaction with Oracle."
"It is a good tool for monitoring databases."
"The dashboards are great for gathering analytic information and seeing where the problems are."
"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"I like being able to use proxy servers for different locations. The agents are pretty cool. They're easy to roll out. The standard out-of-the-box templates are also pretty easy to use. The integration with other learning products is also good. I have, in the past, used Slack, but we've integrated it with Microsoft Teams. We also use it for SMS with a service called Redcoat. It is very flexible. It does what I need it to do, and my manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything. We are nearing 4,000 hosts inside Zabbix, and we've got another 6,000 access points to add to it. We've thrown everything at it, and it has managed to keep going. I am very impressed with the tool, and I'd shake their hand very hard if I got to say the compliments to the Zabbix team. They keep improving it and doing refreshes, which is one good thing about it. There is also online information as well as books that you can purchase if you're willing to read enough. There is a lot to pick up, but it is a pretty complete solution."
"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."
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"We use Zabbix to monitor our organization's IT infrastructure and workstations. We don't use Microsoft Intune since it's expensive. The tool's real-time alerting system has proved crucial for us, particularly when a new device joins a network that is not one of our own devices. It notifies us about the presence of this new device, allowing us to investigate further. Additionally, it alerts us about disk usage, memory usage, and the software installed on the machine."
"It is complicated to run it on Google Chrome."
"RMAN tools need improvement."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The solution is considered expensive."
"The solution has a very large resource system. It's too big. There are too many items."
"I would like to improve the cost."
"The interface offered by Oracle Enterprise Manager has certain shortcomings and needs improvement to become a nice tool."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
"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."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"Its UI should be improved. They did some improvements in version 5, but it could benefit from some more work. Its integrations should also be improved. They've been active for one year, and they seem to have noticed that. It has new integrations, but it could benefit from more integrations. As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"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 documentation could be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 4th in Server Monitoring with 123 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Server Monitoring with 100 reviews. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Dynatrace, Quest Spotlight, AppDynamics, Quest Foglight for Databases and ServiceNow Discovery, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Lenovo XClarity Controller. See our Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. Zabbix report.
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