We performed a comparison between SCOM and WhatsUp Gold 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 solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"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 most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"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."
"Application monitoring must 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."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"The interface needs some work."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
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SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 45th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ServiceNow IT Operations Management, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Prometheus. See our SCOM vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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