We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"The integration part in AppDynamics with other systems is an area with a little difficulty, especially when it comes to the configuration area. The integration of AppDynamics with other products takes a lot of time."
"The training on the dashboards that is provided could be a little bit better, as could the use cases. They should have some good examples out there. As it is right now, I had to scour YouTube to find some stuff."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"They need to improve the consolidation of agents for the agent's installation process."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"I think I would like to see a better way to deploy and upgrade the machine agents that we use. Currently, we have to use SCCM, and that might just be our environment with the customer."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"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."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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