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."I manage software updates and operating systems for devices, and within seconds, we can remotely deploy a system for, say, 2,000 devices. Not only that, but we can also deploy scripts and create comprehensive compliance rules."
"The most valuable features are application deployment and task-sequenced imaging."
"There have to be made some improvement in WSUS and control in other non-Microsoft products updates."
"Valuable features include configurations enforcement, compliance data gathering, and deployment of a standardized OS."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"The solution has a very good set of features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to deploy patches to nearly all applications."
"The most valuable features are Remote Connect, SUP, Cloud functionality, Report, Query, and third-party patching."
"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."
"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."
"The solution is stable."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"In terms of scalability, I believe there's room for improvement. While SCCM is capable of handling our current needs effectively, scalability could be enhanced to accommodate future growth and larger deployments."
"It would be of benefit if Configuration Manager could be connected/integrated with multiple Microsoft Intune subscriptions rather than just one (the current limit)."
"Their compliance reporting is not accurate, and they admitted it on the phone when we had a call with them. We were trying to understand why their numbers didn't match on our compliance reports. It is not accurate and you cannot depend on the compliance reports. The numbers just don't match, and we can't figure out why. We called Microsoft and they said, "Yeah, that's a known issue." But there is no word that they're working on it."
"The solution can be improved by speeding up the synchronizing of the policies on the devices."
"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."
"Our company would prefer not rebooting computers while people are using them. There seems to be no strategy behind it."
"The reports are too busy. They could be simpler. I'm a technician, so I don't care how pretty the reports look. They should be easy to read. I'm designing this for production folks. They need to read the reports quickly when they're patching in the middle of the night."
"The solution does not support remote devices so the CMG is still required."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"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."
"Sometimes, the documentation is a little bit written in Estonia – a country in Europe. The language barrier and translation to English can sometimes make it difficult to understand what they're trying to get at. It's just a language thing."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"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."
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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 98 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 NinjaOne, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. Zabbix report.
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