Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Service vs Zabbix comparison

"Real-time alerting is a very important feature. We need alerts for everything. We have alarms setup and get alerts through email or third-party integrations depending on what's happening – critical VMs, high CPU usage, security concerns."

"The flexibility of this solution is amazing."

"Zabbix is scalable."

"Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold."

"The calculations part is the most valuable."

"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."

"Zabbix has high scalability. I would rate it a nine out of ten."

"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."

"Zabbix helps to save time."

"Third-party connectivity is the part that needs improvement within Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Service."

"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."

"Its UI needs to be improved a little bit more so that an end-user is also able to handle it. I can handle it, but others should also be able to handle it in a better way. It becomes complex when we are growing and need to add proxies. We need more scalability features and documentation for different use cases. A lot of articles are available, but they need to be in proper documentation. For example, when you have thousands of servers that have to be monitored in different regions of the world, there should be some kind of documentation to describe how you can create proxies and add them. Sometimes, when you are using the database, it can get overloaded. When the network is growing, the number of transactions becomes very high, and the database gets overloaded. There should be information about how to reduce the load on the MySQL database, which is what Zabbix is using. The market is growing a lot, and it should be enhanced for a lot more things. We are currently bringing enhancements at our end for different use cases. For example, when dockerization is going on, how can we check the logs inside the Dockers. We should also be able to monitor and check the number of logins and add features such as SSO login and two-factor authentication as a protocol. These are the security features and concerns that we have to deal with. Currently, we are developing modules to add features to Zabbix, but they should also work on these features."

"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."

"The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."

"I would like for this solution to be more cloud-friendly."

"The performance reporting could be improved."

"For us, the initial setup was complex"

"The documentation could be improved."

"For monitoring specifically, it's not that expensive. The licensing is yearly basis."

"The product is an open source and free solution."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."

"We pay the subscription for support by year."

"We are using the free, open-source version."

"It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"We use the open-source version of Zabbix."