We performed a comparison between Datadog 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Datadog has a lot of features to be able to drill down deep into the swath of logs that our platforms generate."
"We have found that we're able to get in and out of troubleshooting issues much more rapidly, which in turn, of course, enables us to spend more time on our products."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"It has a nice UI."
"It has enhanced the performance of my team."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"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."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"Federated views for Datadog dashboards are critical as large companies utilize multiple instances of the product and cannot link the metrics or correlate the metrics together. This stunts the usage of Datadog."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"I think better access to their engineers when we have a problem could be better."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"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."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"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."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"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."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". 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". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Nagios XI, ManageEngine OpManager and AppDynamics. See our Datadog vs. SCOM report.
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