We performed a comparison between PRTG Network Monitor 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 email notifications are helpful, and the dashboards are user-friendly for people with little network monitoring knowledge."
"It is a user-friendly solution."
"The feature I like is that it can easily do a lot of mapping."
"The real-time monitoring and alerting are its most valuable features."
"It is easy to use and intuitive, which is really important. It does what it says on the box by giving you a visual of the state of what is going on at any one time."
"It is very flexible, and we can monitor many aspects of IT as well as ERP and CRM services. It has a very powerful interface and APIs for customization."
"The installation is not that complex."
"Ability to create a dashboard inside software monitoring."
"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."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"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."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I've encountered a challenge in my functions, particularly in adding and printing."
"Having a Unix implementation or Unix installation could be an improvement. Right now, it's based just on Windows, and that's a problem for some customers."
"I would like a more straightforward ability to create dashboards and maps. The network maps should be a bit more flexibility in the GUI to do what we need to do."
"We would like more cloud native sensors for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc. A lot of businesses are moving in that direction, so having something where we can pull performance stats out of these cloud services would be great for us."
"Along with more room for automation, more room for advanced configuration can be integrated into the solution."
"The desktop app is the one area where it do with some improvement. From a user's perspective, I would like to be able to get more out of the desktop app as opposed to where we are now with it."
"Needs ability to monitor standard notification time (notify after X time)."
"The solution has to evolve as an end-to-end monitoring solution. It has to do better at understanding the application at the deepest level."
"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."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"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 solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". 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". PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and WhatsUp Gold, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and OpenText Operations Bridge. See our PRTG Network Monitor vs. SCOM report.
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