We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature."
"The integration with other SolarWinds products is good."
"The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network."
"This solution gives us important information about the utilization of protocols, particularly in terms of how often they are used."
"For managing the traffic, it provides you a response about whether the traffic is down, up, or heavy, which is a very powerful feature. It has a good response time. We have been using this solution for many years, and we don't have any problem with this solution."
"They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it."
"NTA's most valuable feature is traffic analysis and visibility."
"In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence capabilities."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"If your network is on SolarWinds, and you notice that the traffic is bad because it says "user downloading a heavy file," it doesn't indicate which endpoint is downloading those heavy files. SolarWinds doesn't have the tools to be able to handle this kind of situation. You can just notice through your network device that the traffic is becoming overwhelming or heavy, but you cannot go inside and get more details related to the endpoint where it is happening. We would like SolarWinds to be able to handle this kind of situation and even manage the traffic inside a network from the endpoint to the network device. These would be good enhancements. It is mostly stable. The problem comes only when we want to add another SolarWinds model. SolarWinds has so many models, and sometimes when we want to add other models on the platforms that are reserved for our firm, it freezes. When this happens, we have to create a new VM for that model."
"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."
"Customer Support is quite complex."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"There are some areas for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. There are some challenges with the solution when compared to other monitoring tools such as difficulty in operations and difficulty with backup installation. My team is currently trying out different solutions but would need to see how it goes."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
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SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. 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 NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our SCOM vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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