We performed a comparison between Checkmk and Microsoft System Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can monitor multiple sites using the product."
"The most valuable features of Checkmk are its resource monitoring, infra monitoring, and log factor configuration."
"The initial setup of Checkmk was easy...It is a very stable solution."
"I really like the auto-discovery feature."
"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."
"It's versatile, scalable, and easier to use compared to other solutions like Nagios and OMD."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"We like Microsoft System Center's Operations Manager. That is primarily why we use it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it helps us manage our company's application pool, license pool, application update pool, and OS updates."
"It can generate KPIs and management reports with monthly presentations on activities and updating the environment (success and failure)."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"The solution is easily available. That's its most valuable aspect."
"The deployment and asset management features are the most valuable. These are the product's main features."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"I think that the integration and the exporting of the data collected are areas where Checkmk lacks but should try to improve the most."
"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."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"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."
"In Checkmk, the documentation can probably be improved a bit more."
"It is easy for tech-savvy people, but newcomers might find it intimidating."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"The platform's performance could be improved. Additionally, its UI needs to be well-upgraded and work faster."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"Less server consumption would help, as would better, more flexible reports."
Checkmk is ranked 15th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 6 reviews while Microsoft System Center is ranked 29th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 18 reviews. Checkmk is rated 8.6, while Microsoft System Center 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 Microsoft System Center writes "Makes user management and application management easy for users". Checkmk is most compared with Zabbix, Icinga, Netdata, Centreon and Observium, whereas Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite. See our Checkmk vs. Microsoft System Center report.
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