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ServiceNow IT Operations Management vs VictoriaMetrics comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (1st), Cloud Management (9th), AIOps (3rd)
VictoriaMetrics
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
45th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is 1.1%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VictoriaMetrics is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow IT Operations Management1.1%
VictoriaMetrics0.4%
Other98.5%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2755671 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Significant enhancement in operations with powerful discovery and analytics, yet pricing structure poses challenges
ServiceNow IT Operations Management provides out-of-the-box dashboards. Along with the dashboard, it also provides the Operations Workspace, which is very useful for operations teams. There is a functionality called Performance Analytics, which we are also using to develop some dashboards for the senior leadership and operations team where they can perform trend analysis of alerts and events happening across the infrastructure and application landscape. These dashboards are really useful here. ServiceNow IT Operations Management's biggest plus point is that it is a platform. ITOM is just one module that ServiceNow IT Operations Management offers, but they provide seamless integration of ITOM with their other modules such as ITSM, where we can leverage the AIs for discovery, perform impact analysis, which essentially helps to enhance the overall IT operations and reduce the downtime and MTTR.
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Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
High-performance monitoring has reduced costs and now supports long-term observability
Overall, VictoriaMetrics is a very strong tool. One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources. While the documentation is good, some advanced use cases and configuration could be explained more clearly with real-world examples. Another improvement would be the UI and built-in visualization. VictoriaMetrics mainly relies on tools like Grafana, so having a more feature-rich native UI for basic monitoring and exploration would be helpful. On the integration side, while it works great with Prometheus and Grafana, expanding native integration with more tools like CI/CD platforms, alerting systems, and cloud-native services would be beneficial. In terms of support and troubleshooting, having more built-in diagnostics or guided debugging tools would be helpful. Right now, when issues happen, it often relies on logs and external tools. Also, for enterprise usage, strong features like RBAC, audit logs, and multi-tenant management would be enhanced. The improvements would include UI and built-in visualization. Also, query complexity can be a bit challenging for new users. Simplifying it or providing better guidance for query building would improve usability. Finally, enterprise features and ecosystem integration could be expanded further.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution allows you to subscribe to the all required ITSM modules, asset discovery and service mapping on a single platform, its guided setup provides easy implementation process and I found these features most valuable."
"It's easy to set up."
"IT support management is the most valuable feature and a very good product."
"The end-to-end ticketing process is most valuable in ServiceNow IT Operations Management because its notification feature is excellent in keeping all users informed on the next step compared to BMC. I also like that ServiceNow IT Operations Management is very user-friendly."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The scalability of ServiceNow is good."
"Before that, if a switch went down, we'd get 600 tickets; now, we get only one."
"I like the solution due to the fact that it's scalable."
"We observed that RAM was reduced by around 70% and disk usage by 75%, while write speed increased 3x and query per second P95 latency became 7x faster."
"VictoriaMetrics is an excellent solution for time-series monitoring with outstanding performance."
 

Cons

"The pricing is high."
"The solution's licensing model is a bit complicated. It should be simple and easy for people to understand."
"The CMDB part of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a little bit too complicated, and it is a bit slow at our company."
"The vendor support rates between five to six because it takes a lot of time to get issues resolved, whether minor or major. For minor issues, the team takes a month's time to provide a fix."
"The solution's subscription model could be improved."
"The solution needs to add mobilization, where we can connect mobile devices or wireless devices to do wireless scanning and bring assets into the database."
"I would like more manual issues to have automated report-facing options."
"At times, it got cumbersome from the project management perspective."
"The main area that needs improvement in VictoriaMetrics is the documentation itself, as the support is adequate and the open-source project does provide replies within one to two days."
"One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution offers yearly licenses and a subscription model for add-on features."
"The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses."
"It is expensive. It is around 10 Euros per server per month."
"I would rate the product's pricing a five out of ten since there are vendors who are cheaper."
"There are additional costs, you have to pay more for everything."
"The cost of ServiceNow is much higher."
"We obtained discovery licenses at about seven dollars Australian per unit, which we found to be reasonable and competitive."
"This solution offers good value but comes at a very high premium. Pricing could be reduced by 10 to 20%."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Transportation Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise29
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
Regarding pricing, while I initially felt the prices were high when we moved, I now see that it is reasonable considering that we are not just using an ITSM tool; we are improving processes and com...
What needs improvement with ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
ServiceNow IT Operations Management can be improved by focusing on adoption, as some companies still use other tools, and we had to onboard them initially, addressing challenges such as data migrat...
What is your primary use case for ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
As an implementation expert and former CIO, I handled implementation from an IT best practice perspective for different companies.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VictoriaMetrics?
The pricing was very good as I am following a subscription-based model. As of now, I have a better dashboard to view my monthly and yearly bills. It is very helpful to reallocate my budget to accom...
What needs improvement with VictoriaMetrics?
Overall, VictoriaMetrics is a very strong tool. One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources. While the documentation is good, some advanced use cases and configuration could be...
What is your primary use case for VictoriaMetrics?
My main use case is storing and querying the time-series metrics for monitoring and observability. I primarily use it as a high-performance back end for Prometheus, where it handles large volumes o...
 

Also Known As

ServiceNow ITOM
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Sample Customers

servicenow, TransAlta, NATS, Symantec
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