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."Technical support is very helpful and very responsive."
"This solution helps us by automating the patching of our system."
"Patching is very effective and reporting is very good."
"The initial setup is straightforward and not too complicated."
"Technical support was helpful and responsive."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability."
"Offers good patching."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"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."
"I'm supervising all the IT departments, and Zabbix seems quite good for them. It provides graphics and information in real time. We get alerts about crashes on the system, enabling us to quickly repair issues. We can easily find devices with problems."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"The solution is stable."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"Like other common Linux distributions, some of the most valuable features of this solution are the ease of use and deployment. It's simple and has a lot of packages and a lot of software."
"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."
"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."
"There is no asset management package included."
"The deployment process is lengthy and should be quicker to complete."
"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."
"Not everything is readily available, and there are a lot of commands that are only executable via PowerShell."
"This solution should be simpler, and more consistent across modules/sections."
"One area of improvement is regarding the patching of Office 365 products. We have some difficulties on this side, and it can be improved."
"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."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"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."
"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 technical support is sold separately."
"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
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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, BigFix, Microsoft Intune 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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