We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds ipMonitor 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."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The stability has been great."
"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."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the availability of end devices."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution does not include enough features and has some performance issues."
SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews while SolarWinds ipMonitor is ranked 71st in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds ipMonitor is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds ipMonitor writes "The solution is easy to setup and use but it lacks features and is expensive to scale". SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI, whereas SolarWinds ipMonitor is most compared with SolarWinds NPM.
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