We performed a comparison between Flowmon and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The solution is stable."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"The licensing price could be better."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"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."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Flowmon is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". 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". Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, WhatsUp Gold and Vectra AI, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI.
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