We performed a comparison between OpenText SiteScope and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The URL monitoring is excellent."
"Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"It can monitor over a 100 technologies with built-in solution templates."
"The tool has capabilities other than managing web-based applications, like URL Monitor and EPI Script. It is also easy to use the tool."
"It has multiple monitors that can be deployed OOTB, which includes basic system monitors for CPU, Disk, Memory, NIC's, etc."
"It's easy to template standard monitoring configurations, and automate monitoring configuration."
"Being able to create your monitors for monitoring your internal URLs and databases and other things like that is valuable."
"There's no agent you need installed on the servers. In our environment, we have some servers out of our control so we cannot manage them. We use SiteScope to monitor the availability, the resources on the servers, etc. This allows us to do this job without installing agents so there's no need to take care of anything on the server."
"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."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The tool needs to support new technologies like Kubernetes. It also needs to improve scalability."
"Direct integration with an SMS gateway for sending critical alerts to the support SME. This will help customer investing in third party middleware solutions for SMS."
"It may lack some features other products in the category have like more detailed transaction tracking."
"The lack of an agent means that remote monitoring requires multiple firewall ports to be opened."
"It should improve its integrations with various tools, especially service management tools."
"More out of the box Cloud integration and capabilities."
"Full application functionality available via the API. There are some functions you can perform managing monitors, that are only available through the UI."
"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
OpenText SiteScope is ranked 28th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText SiteScope writes "Doesn't require much custom coding and can run on different platforms, but the types of scripting files you can execute on it are limited". 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". OpenText SiteScope is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog and AppDynamics.
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