We performed a comparison between Observer Apex 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."
"Network visibility is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"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."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The pricing and AI can be improved."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"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."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
Observer Apex is ranked 94th in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Observer Apex is rated 0.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Observer Apex writes "Has good network visibility ". 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". Observer Apex is most compared with , whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics.
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