We performed a comparison between OpenText SiteScope 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."It can monitor over a 100 technologies with built-in solution templates."
"The most valuable feature of SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring."
"SiteScope has built-in flat file DB, hence it removes the dependency of an external DB for higher stability."
"Has a simple setup. It can be up and running within hours."
"The stability of the Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope is good."
"The URL monitoring is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of OpenText SiteScope is that it is easy to manage and user-friendly."
"Simplest tool for monitoring servers, web content, databases and other hardware. Its dashboard is really good."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"Full application functionality available via the API. There are some functions you can perform managing monitors, that are only available through the UI."
"The graphs and dashboard in the solution are areas that need improvement."
"It may lack some features other products in the category have like more detailed transaction tracking."
"You can use OpenText SiteScope for small or middle environments. But if you want to monitor a large environment, it is not scalable. If you can monitor a large environment with OpenText SiteScope, it can be a valuable product."
"More out of the box Cloud integration and capabilities."
"Sometimes in a huge environment, I think the documentation does not provide the required calculations so you can't know what the required set up should be. You need to test."
"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."
"They have not kept up with browser security requirements or advances in GUIs, they switched to a corruptible database architecture instead of text config files."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
OpenText SiteScope is ranked 28th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText SiteScope writes "Doesn't require much custom coding and can run on different platforms, but the types of scripting files you can execute on it are limited". 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". OpenText SiteScope is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog and Nagios XI.
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