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We performed a comparison between OpsRamp and SCOM 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.
To learn more, read our detailed OpsRamp vs. SCOM Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable features of OpsRamp include a single pane of glass, event correlation, personalized dashboards, and a single platform solution.""It greatly assists small and medium-sized businesses in using the ITSM, alerting, and monitoring features.""The feature we found most valuable in OpsRamp is alert generation because whenever there is any kind of spike on any virtual machine, the solution generates alerts based on the thresholds we implemented. We have integrated our ideas and tools with OpsRamp, so alerts are generated, then we notify the customers. That's the main feature we like about OpsRamp because we don't have to monitor each resource. Instead, OpsRamp does the monitoring for us, and it generates the alerts based on the thresholds.""Most features work fine.""The feature that we have found most useful are the dashboards, which can be built in minutes using this solution, allowing multiple products, thresholds, or any given required metric to be seen in a single area.""The technical support is fantastic, and they are fast to respond.""The most valuable feature of this solution in my experience, is that the available reporting is quite accurate.""The most valuable feature of OpsRamp is the creation of the dashboards of the infrastructure for the CPU memory and SQL servers. Additionally, URL monitoring through Selenium scripting and the availability dashboard is useful."

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"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.""It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance.""I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory.""The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable.""I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time.""I like the historical reporting of observer metrics.""It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."

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Cons
"The function to search any particular device within this solution needs to be improved. Currently, the solution develops a lag when a search, or a comparison, is being carried out.""The user interface of this product requires some changes as it is not inclusively user-friendly. For example, the performance indicators are color-based , which means that they are confusing for anyone who is color blind.""An area of improvement would be application monitoring.""OpsRamp could improve the critical alerts. We have been receiving some false alerts when monitoring. For example, the alert shows the site is down, but when we try to do manual access to the URL, it's accessible.""OpsRamp cannot be scaled for big and large company deployments.""What's lacking in OpsRamp is process automation, and if there is, I wish there could be more of it, other than just spikes, or it would be better if the alerts can be generated based on different matrices. That option is absent in OpsRamp at the moment, and it would be valuable if that could be provided in the solution, especially if there's any kind of security issue in the VM.""We have 55 AVDs, and patches might roll out to 32-35 initially, with the rest taking a month or so. OpsRamp can't detect them all directly. Since clients want patches applied as soon as possible, we manually patch those remaining devices.""I would like to see two things. The first is a self-service portal for the cloud, any cloud deployments, and the second is maturity validation towards ITSM, internalizing OpsRamp TSM. As a result, instead of integrating with more mature tools similar to ServiceNow, people will use OpsRamp."

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"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable.""Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved.""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.""I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on.""Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution.""The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage.""I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems.""System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "You pay it for a year and you'll have full access to the entire platform, not only for monitoring and alerting, you will have access to the entire platform, and whatever technology they develop will be made available to you."
  • "There is an annual licensing fee to use OpsRamp."
  • "I don't have any idea about the licensing cost for OpsRamp, but I just know that its pricing is based on the resource count for each tenant."
  • "OpsRamp is a cost-effective solution."
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  • "The pricing and licensing are fair."
  • "Our licensing fees are approximately $30 per user, per month."
  • "If you have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, then this is part of the agreement."
  • "It is more expensive than the competition."
  • "SCOM is part of the System Center suite and I am satisfied with the pricing."
  • "We have an enterprise agreement that includes this product as part of it."
  • "The pricing is good, and it's part of their system center suite."
  • "We have to pay for a license and the price is fine for us."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in the performance of the product. The main problem is with patch management. The actual problem we're facing is with the patch management feature. It's not real-time… more »
    Top Answer:The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location.
    Top Answer:It is the cheapest product available in the market. I rate the pricing a one out of ten.
    Top Answer:SCOM needs to improve its usability.
    Ranking
    4th
    out of 20 in Event Monitoring
    Views
    1,069
    Comparisons
    720
    Reviews
    10
    Average Words per Review
    561
    Rating
    7.8
    3rd
    out of 20 in Event Monitoring
    Views
    1,369
    Comparisons
    821
    Reviews
    12
    Average Words per Review
    412
    Rating
    8.1
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    Also Known As
    System Center Operations Manager, SCOM 2012
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    Overview

    OpsRamp is a leading cloud-based digital IT operations management platform. The solution allows your organization to leverage hybrid observability, process automation, and machine learning to modernize IT operations. OpsRamp can handle the speed, scope, and scale of modern IT and can help you drive productivity and business value. In addition, it can help your business manage, monitor, and consolidate your point tools and applications.

    OpsRamp Features

    OpsRamp has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Modern infrastructure monitoring: OpsRamp provides end-to-end visibility across applications, data centers, public clouds, point tools, and more.
    • Intelligent incident management: With this OpsRamp feature, you gain better problem identification, impact analysis, and first response for incidents with a streamlined process. This leads to proactive resolution and automated remediation that natively integrates with your ITSM tools.
    • Modern IT operations management: OpsRamp can help you consolidate your multiple point tools with its modern, SaaS-based IT operations platform. The solution can combine artificial intelligence, hybrid infrastructure monitoring, incident remediation, and service and topology mapping, so it can easily evolve with your organization
    • Service-centric AIOps: OpsRamp gives you the ability to examine your incidents, establish a tight feedback loop between your different teams, and reduce alert floods. Additionally, the solution enables your organization to deliver quick resolutions by using OpsQ, its artificial intelligence-powered event management engine.
    • Cloud migration: OpsRamp is a true multi-tenant, multi-tier SaaS platform that helps you move more applications and workloads to the cloud faster.
    • Curated dashboards: By using OpsRamp, IT teams can build curated dashboards using PromQL queries. A central dashboard repository can also be created if needed, and dashboards can be reused for shared IT services as necessary.
    • Topology maps: With OpsRamp’s service-aware topology maps, you are able to keep track of your entire hybrid IT infrastructure, enabling you to troubleshoot issues by using real-time dependencies for hybrid services.

    OpsRamp Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing OpsRamp. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Autodiscovery: OpsRamp auto-discovers multi-cloud and on-premises infrastructure across your IT environment and maps it to your IT services.
    • Multi-cloud telemetry and real-time events: The solution captures multi-cloud telemetry and real-time events as they occur so that your organization is able to make data-driven decisions by using the right performance and consumption insights.
    • Take action faster: OpsQ, the solution’s AIOps event management engine, drives faster incident resolution and helps reduce MTTD/MTTR of business-critical services.
    • Improved efficiency: OpsRamp helps deliver IT operations as a service. With the platform, you can automate workloads, manage multi-cloud costs, and see your IT operations become more efficient.
    • Flexible integrations: With OpsRamp, you do not have to get rid of your existing tools. The OpsRamp platform can consolidate them all into one contextual view using the metrics that matter most.
    • Monitoring integration support: OpsRamp delivers monitoring integration support for more than 150 cloud services across the leading three cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

    SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) is a cross-platform data center monitoring and reporting tool that checks the status of various objects defined within the environment, such as server hardware, system services, etc. The solution allows data center administrators to deploy, configure, manage, and monitor the operations, services, devices and applications of multiple enterprise IT systems via a single pane of glass. It is suitable for businesses of all sizes.

    SCOM Features

    SCOM has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Application monitoring
    • Database monitoring
    • Threshold alerts
    • IT Asset Discovery
    • Predictive capabilities
    • Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
    • Application performance management console
    • Server availability and performance monitoring
    • Collaboration tools
    • Virtualization monitoring
    • Patch management
    • Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
    • Application dependency mapping and thresholding

    SCOM Benefits

    There are several benefits to implementing SCOM. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Management and monitoring of Windows as well as Unix/Linux platforms
    • Remotely connect to Windows machines and perform administrative tasks from the console itself
    • Custom dashboard creation to help monitor the datacenter with ease
    • Agent based monitoring
    • Integrates well with other Microsoft products
    • Easy to use and reliable

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the SCOM solution.

    A Manager at a financial services firm says, “The feature I like most about SCOM is that it is easy-to-use. I find it very user-friendly. I also like the knowledge base which it has. You can find the resolution to questions or issues directly within the SCOM itself. It will alert you with a recommendation of what you need to do at the same time. This sort of self-diagnosis or prompting is one of the great values you get from SCOM compared to other solutions.”

    PeerSpot user Zahari Z., Information Technology Auditor at a financial services firm, mentions, “Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications. There is a mechanism to set up a notification from the SCOM and whenever there is a drop in the availability the notification alerts not only for availability but for other issues as well. You can align thresholds according to the speed of your environment and you can have a threshold related notification, which is one of the useful features.”

    Bill W., Sr. Systems Engineer at Arapahoe County Government, comments, “ I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time. When we patch, things are automatically put into maintenance mode so that the numbers for our systems being down, do not count against us.”

    A Project Manager at a tech services company explains, “The feature I have found most valuable is the book feature. While we run the Sprint one we can add some setups for multiple sprints.”

    A Systems Engineer at an educational organization states, “Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it.”

    Sample Customers
    Epsilon, CloudBrix, GreenPages, NIIT Technologies
    Dialog Telekom
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Insurance Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Retailer13%
    Government10%
    Healthcare Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise33%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise60%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise69%
    Buyer's Guide
    OpsRamp vs. SCOM
    May 2024
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    OpsRamp is ranked 4th in Event Monitoring with 10 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. OpsRamp is rated 7.8, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpsRamp writes "Automates Azure resource monitoring and inventory management but slow with real-time patch status ". 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". OpsRamp is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Datadog, SolarWinds NPM and LogicMonitor, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our OpsRamp vs. SCOM report.

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