We performed a comparison between Checkmk and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"I really like the auto-discovery feature."
"The initial setup of Checkmk was easy...It is a very stable solution."
"We can monitor multiple sites using the product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it has a lot of different pieces, and they all work together...It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Checkmk are its resource monitoring, infra monitoring, and log factor configuration."
"It's versatile, scalable, and easier to use compared to other solutions like Nagios and OMD."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Sometimes we receive alerts, and it can become annoying when you acknowledge an alert. It is very clunky when you acknowledge the alert. The process is not very intuitive, and there are instances where it feels a bit cumbersome to acknowledge an alert."
"It is easy for tech-savvy people, but newcomers might find it intimidating."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"If an alert is generated for a specific pattern in the log, and if Checkmk catches that log, it will stay there even after the alert is resolved."
"I think that the integration and the exporting of the data collected are areas where Checkmk lacks but should try to improve the most."
"In Checkmk, the documentation can probably be improved a bit more."
"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."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
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Checkmk is ranked 21st in Network Monitoring Software with 6 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Checkmk is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Checkmk writes "A reasonably priced tool for system and application monitoring". 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". Checkmk is most compared with Zabbix, Icinga, Netdata, Centreon and OpenNMS , whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Checkmk vs. SCOM report.
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