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 most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us... Most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We have highly scalable systems and AppDynamics will help us monitor our load on-prem. Our systems range from simple to the most complex and it gives us the visibility across transactions, in one dashboard."
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"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."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It's easy to use."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"We constantly need to improve our alert mechanism because we get a lot of false-positive alerts. These are not real errors. In addition, for end-user monitoring, sometimes, we are not able to catch all user activities. Because of not being able to follow the user activity from the start to the end, we are missing out on the performance issues."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"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."
"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 153 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 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 Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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