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 13cR2 updates to the OEM family, strongly integrate Cloud (off-site, hybrid and on-premise) services providing a seamless way to see all of your resources regardless of where they are deployed."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a very user-friendly tool."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"We can manage everything in our environment."
"Some of the most valuable features are its real-time performance view/dashboard, metric history, real-time monitoring and alerts, as well as quick access to Oracle's tuning and diagnostic options."
"It's user friendly."
"It's easy to implement as it's made by Oracle for Oracle."
"The most valuable features are security and speed."
"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"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 allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"The product is pretty comprehensive, but quite resource hungry. This might be due to the majority of the application seemingly being written in Java."
"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager six out of 10 for affordability. It's expensive."
"There's a lot of documentation to go through as a new user."
"The interface could be more friendly for basic users."
"The solution's agents work with Java, and the Java code sometimes consumes a lot of memory on the CPU."
"My opinion is that this solution needs to improve consolidation. That is what our business needs the most right now."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve the monitoring types and the graphics."
"They should improve the hover text context. This would provide assistance whenever a task is attempted by a DBA."
"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 performance reporting could be improved."
"In terms of user-friendliness, large maps could be more interactive. We should be able to click on some areas and move some objects. It would make it simpler to see things while analyzing some dedicated parameters."
"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."
Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 4th in Server Monitoring with 123 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Server Monitoring with 101 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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