We performed a comparison between Akamai mPulse 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."Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great."
"The most valuable feature is the solutions overall performance. It is very efficient and accurate for our usage."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"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."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"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."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The end-to-end distributor tracing connectivity isn't there."
"In the next release, I would like to see the possibility of sharing the metric from this solution with other solutions."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
Akamai mPulse is ranked 53rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. Akamai mPulse is rated 6.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Akamai mPulse writes "Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within". 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". Akamai mPulse is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, Datadog and AppDynamics, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics.
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