We performed a comparison between BMC Compuware Strobe 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 initial setup was fairly easy."
"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 has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"There are certain aspects of the configuration that could be simplified a bit."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
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BMC Compuware Strobe is ranked 62nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. BMC Compuware Strobe is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BMC Compuware Strobe writes "Stable with a good database and a good interface". 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". BMC Compuware Strobe is most compared with IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS, IBM Application Performance Management and Mainframe Application Tuner, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics.
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