We performed a comparison between NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG 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."
"It helps us to assist our customers to isolate problems. If it is us who is having the problem, then we can use it to streamline the process."
"The most valuable feature is utilization."
"It's an easy product to set up."
"I love the single pane of glass view. It makes it easier to not have to navigate everywhere. It allows more simplistic visibility, without having to go from tool to tool to tool, or from window to window to window."
"The product is stable. I have never had any issue where we have lost an InfiniStream, or visibility from that particular InfiniStream, throughout the bank."
"When we have mobile operators who are signal partners, where one is the roaming host and another is the roamer, we are able to see their traffic. Their packets are able to detect if any faults to develop, and at what point they fail."
"It is very rock solid. We hardly have any hardware issues."
"The ability to troubleshoot customers' connectivity has been very beneficial."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Being able to manage the packet flow switches in nGeniusONE would be great."
"The single pane of glass feed still needs work."
"The technology goes end-of-life on us every year, which is why I am looking forward to vSTREAM. I don't like when devices go end-of-life on us so quickly. If we can get more of an advanced notice of when an end-of-life is brought up, because our certification process within the organization takes a while."
"The monitoring and reporting tool needs improvement. Users want more information, such as the level of detail when doing a packet analysis. They want more detail to be able to isolate down to a specific point."
"The stability depends on who is using the tool, because you only can get as much out of the tool as you put into it. There are a lot of patches for this particular environment, so you have to keep on them. If you lose track of them, then the product is not useful anymore."
"It's not able to communicate with our probes."
"The NetFlow Collectors could handle more flows per minute."
"Only problems that we have had are fiber issues going into the TAPs or vSTREAMs, which are usually local site issues."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"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."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is ranked 63rd in Network Monitoring Software with 13 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is rated 8.4, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG writes "Once you know how to use the product, it's easy and simple ". 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". NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and NETSCOUT vSTREAM, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics.
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