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."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"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 is very easy to use."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"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."
"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 end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"It's an expensive solution."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
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SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 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 Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, SolarWinds NPM, Dynatrace and AppDynamics. See our SCOM vs. ThousandEyes report.
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