We performed a comparison between SCOM and ThousandEyes 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."
"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."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"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."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics. See our SCOM vs. ThousandEyes report.
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