We performed a comparison between PRTG Network Monitor 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."
"The email notifications are helpful, and the dashboards are user-friendly for people with little network monitoring knowledge."
"There is a simplicity to setting up the extra sensors. It's really easy for us to build infrastructure and start monitoring very quickly."
"One of its valuable features is the fact that it handles multiple operating systems... And I like the fact that it tells me when things are about to fall over, which means I can preempt it and not have to wake up at three in the morning to fix it."
"We can see trends for a lot of different things, such as hard drive space and bandwidth usage. We can see and plan for the future by knowing, "We're sort of at 75% capacity now. In three months time, we know we're going to be up to 90%,so we need to plan ahead for it, getting upgrades booked in place." Since things like this take time and effort, it's handy to see trends into the future of where our company is going."
"Technical support has been very helpful so far."
"We have asked questions of their technical support and they have a very good response time."
"PRTG Network Monitor is a very stable product."
"It is a central solution in terms of how to actually use it. It has a very easy dashboard. Everything is concise. We are able to create custom sensors. For different parts of the business, we have many products across many environments, and it works for everything."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The stability has been great."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"It's easy to use."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Needs ability to monitor standard notification time (notify after X time)."
"The solution could be better and faster when it comes to performance."
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve the price."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve by adding prevention and detection features."
"Along with more room for automation, more room for advanced configuration can be integrated into the solution."
"I've encountered a challenge in my functions, particularly in adding and printing."
"PRTG does not allow us to scan devices like we can scan software or another problem in it. Also, I cannot draw graphical graphs in Woodview/look. Another problem is that we cannot draw a good diagram in PRTG."
"Can be slow in the way it polls the different engines."
"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 price could be improved."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
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PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". 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". PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and Datadog, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and OpenText Operations Bridge. See our PRTG Network Monitor vs. SCOM report.
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