Uptime Cloud Monitor vs. Zenoss

From my experience, production availability support is the best scenario. My SREs are working very closely with our NOC team, which is monitoring dashboards and using them to find issues and resolve them very quickly. We also can alert based on the metrics which is very useful to be aware of the issues in real-time.

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Overall I would say that we have been very happy with Zenoss. It has been a great server monitoring tool. There are certain aspects that we would like to expand into, such as Capacity Planning, Network Performance Monitoring, and log analysis. We have coupled Zenoss logs with Splunk for external log management, but would like to start using some of the built-in analysis tools.

• Very simple and easy dashboard
• Configurable dashboard
• Very good statistics reports

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• Monitoring Windows, Unix/Linux, Infra apps, storage, virtualization, converge infra etc..
• Integrate with other monitoring tools and receive events for aggregation and correlation
• Integration with ITSM( SNOW) for auto ticket creation

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• The tools is not very cheap

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• Hard to troubleshot and fix the issue.
• More development for monitoring storage systems.
• Load balancing on Zenoss instance.

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First of all, the most important difference for me is the ease of use, and ease of creating dashboards and metrics. The cloud monitor allowed us to migrate from our in-house system to a cloud-based system. It is not cheap, but compared to alternatives it is not that expensive.

Incentivized

• Since availability is increased significantly, we are in much better relations with our customers now

Incentivized

• Our ROI was excellent, but the company has also implemented other tools that compete with Zenoss.
• Zenoss has a long history of excellence in monitoring and alerting
• Overall observability is easier to manage due to our comfort with the tool set