We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration 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 solution effectively handles inventory management, deployment, and reporting."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"This has made the management of our environment easier."
"I like the data collection."
"Automation of operating system, application, and update deployments massively reduces IT operations effort."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability."
"Valuable features include configurations enforcement, compliance data gathering, and deployment of a standardized OS."
"Microsoft has done a good job with authentication solutions, such as single sign-on, or open authentication."
"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"During my testing, the features that I like the most are that it can be integrated with my system, and it provides me with reports of all of my servers."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"Zabbix helps to save time."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"Zabbix is scalable."
"Its client interface should be more accessible, and the notifications should be more customizable from the console. It should be more user friendly and have some kind of customized notifications so that we can use it on the client side. These are the reasons why we restricted its use only for the server environment and didn't use it on the client side."
"It should provide the ability to remotely connect to mobile devices. There are some solutions that are doing that, but with Microsoft Intune, the only way to remotely connect to devices outside the organization and mobile devices is by using TeamViewer. It is pretty strange for a big company like Microsoft to not have something for that."
"Could do with some cosmetic improvements on the user interface."
"This solution should be simpler, and more consistent across modules/sections."
"Troubleshooting in general needs improvement. There's just a ton of logs to go through, and so finding the error log that corresponds with that you're doing can sometimes be difficult."
"The solution does not support remote devices so the CMG is still required."
"The tool's deployment can be cumbersome."
"The solution could improve the functionality for automating, license management. Additionally, more and better-looking reports are needed."
"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."
"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."
"The documentation could be improved."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Server Monitoring with 101 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Ivanti Neurons Patch for Intune, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. Zabbix report.
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