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."Patching is the main feature because SCCM is made to control the entire environment without manually interpreting. So it is good to use for patching."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager is integrated with other Microsoft products."
"With the right administrator, application deployment can do wonders."
"Automation of operating system, application, and update deployments massively reduces IT operations effort."
"The ability to make collections and deploy to them has been great."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager gives different tools in one solution."
"We are happy with the collaboration of SCCM with Patch My PC, which allows us to do patch work."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is the availability of being able to manage the Microsoft estate. It handles many areas, such as asset management and tracking."
"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."
"It's a flexible solution."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"The solution allows for good integration with other products."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"Initial setup was complex. There's a lot that goes into it."
"As far as load balancing across, they don't have that support yet, so that you can actually build multiple primaries and have it load balance across. They don't have any of that functionality yet. That would be a nice feature, to scale that way."
"The operations could be faster and you need some patience with this tool."
"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."
"Our company would prefer not rebooting computers while people are using them. There seems to be no strategy behind it."
"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."
"SCCM does not scale well, which is one of the reasons we are not going to continue to use it."
"The App to upgrades to the server needs to be improved."
"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."
"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."
"There are areas of improvement. The database grows really fast. So, when you install Zabbix, you have to deal with some issues, like the database. We become pretty big very fast."
"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
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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 100 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 Core and Nagios XI. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. Zabbix report.
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