We performed a comparison between Datadog 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 is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"The management of SLOs and their related burn-rate monitors have allowed us to onboard teams to on-call fast."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"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 Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."
"The product needs to have more enterprise approach to configuration."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"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."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". 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". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Datadog vs. SCOM report.
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