We performed a comparison between Checkmk and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"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."
"I really like the auto-discovery feature."
"The most valuable features of Checkmk are its resource monitoring, infra monitoring, and log factor configuration."
"We can monitor multiple sites using the product."
"The initial setup of Checkmk was easy...It is a very stable solution."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"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."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The price could be improved."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
Checkmk is ranked 21st in Network Monitoring Software with 6 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Checkmk is rated 8.6, while SCOM 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Checkmk is most compared with Zabbix, Icinga, Netdata, Centreon and OpsRamp, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Checkmk vs. SCOM report.
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