We performed a comparison between SCOM, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, ServiceNow, Microsoft and others in Event Monitoring."SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"As it offers enterprise solutions, it has all the essential features for business."
"It doesn't cost too much."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The performance analysis is a valuable feature. With the performance analyzer, we can see the realtime monitoring, the realtime performance, and historical performance on specific components like virtualization storage, CPU, servers and network equipment."
"They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it."
"The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network."
"We use Zabbix to monitor our organization's IT infrastructure and workstations. We don't use Microsoft Intune since it's expensive. The tool's real-time alerting system has proved crucial for us, particularly when a new device joins a network that is not one of our own devices. It notifies us about the presence of this new device, allowing us to investigate further. Additionally, it alerts us about disk usage, memory usage, and the software installed on the machine."
"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."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"Our customers also like that they don't have to use multiple modules. Micro Focus and major vendors typically require you to buy several modules and plugins. Our customers do not like that. We offer them a single product for all their monitoring needs."
"In terms of customization and integration, we have more flexibility. We can automate configurations, define deletion rules, and customize based on the needs. The client interface allows for further configuration, making it quite comprehensive."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts."
"Technical support could be improved with quicker response times."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly. You can see applications such as Facebook and YouTube, but SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer needs to have more visibility into more applications. Currently, SolarWinds fails to detect more powerful applications, such as Zoom and Teams. If SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can recognize every application and be able to report on each in terms of bandwidth, then that would be good. This is what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution."
"One area that we struggle with is the price. Because the price of this solution is so high, we are largely unable to introduce it into the local market, and only the banking sector has the means to afford it."
"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."
"Customer Support is quite complex."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"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."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
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