Zenoss

Zenoss is full fledged monitoring system, quite extensive in design and deployment

What do you like best? Monitoring Software, using MicroService Arch. What do you dislike? Hard to TroubleShoot, and fix the issue. Over a Long time running stability of the product reduces. Many option are not easily customizable. Like if I do not want certain set of Process been detected by a Device, it is quite hard to customize the ZenPacks. Further it is not clear which Metrics/ and Monitor are done by which ZenPacks and so on.... In Short, quite harde to troubleshoot.. and ...

Infinite configurations

What do you like best? Extremely configurable Scaling Community feedback/helpdesk assistance What do you dislike? Not Plug-n-Play Steeper learning curve compared to other tools What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Utilizing different modelers and datasources, we've been able to adapt to our clients needs on a larger scale.

Zenoss is a great Company

What do you like best? Infrastructure monitoring is a key in today's world and Zenoss has taken it to the next level with it's custom development packs. What do you dislike? Unfriendly GUI interface, NEEDS MORE IMPROVEMENT WITH GUI. Recommendations to others considering the product: it's great to use but needs more GUI improvement for ease of access. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Monitoring our company's infrastructure in ...

Servers Mapped out

What do you like best? The graphical interfaces available for server and database planning helps make IT easier. What do you dislike? The graphics do seem dated and can be clunky. Recommendations to others considering the product: As it is open source make sure to take advantage of third party applications and plug ins to receive the full experience What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Network communication in the organization is allowed

One Stop Network Monitoring tool for complex network monitoring requiremnets

What do you like best? Range Device Family Supports User Friendly interface In-detail information of events and device details under monitoring Auto discovery of devices Plugins and their support What do you dislike? Complex Installation Process Not plug-n-play software installation non-intuitive best for Linux based installation What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Complex infrastructure monitoring Real time ...

Zenoss for Monitoring

What do you like best? Its free and does just about everything out of the box with little customizing. What do you dislike? There were some features we were looking for that you can only get with the paid version. Recommendations to others considering the product: Just download it and give it a shot you will not look back trust me. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We wanted something that would replace System Center Operations ...

A decent systems and network monitoring tool

What do you like best? The layout and configurability is a little easier than using something like Nagios and the UI with graphing is definitely more friendly at a glance. What do you dislike? Scalability of Zenoss when using a large number of complex monitors with a large number of nodes is still questionably. We have seen odd behaviour when reaching into the thousands of nodes. Recommendations to others considering the product: You should probably consider all your needs before ...

Zenoss

What do you like best? I like the graphic interface for Zenoss. It is easy to use once installed. What do you dislike? I dislike how it is biased towards Linux and CLI-familiar users. It is also somewhat complex to install. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Network monitoring and analysis.

Zenoss

What do you like best? A ton of features and customizations. I am able to monitor per interfacedevice in a whole. I can monitor all devices within my infrastructure. What do you dislike? Maybe there is no much that can be used, Recommendations to others considering the product: Zenoss is going to be your one-stop shop form monitoring and alerting What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Monitoring and alerts

Powerful, Flexible, Reliable

What do you like best? You can get Zenoss to do just about anything, including problem resolution. What do you dislike? Getting it to do just about anything can require some effort. In fact a lot of effort as you will end up redoing some of your templates as they will almost certainly get accidentally overwritten by other admins. Recommendations to others considering the product: Any sizable deployment will require one FTE to keep this system relevant. What problems are you ...