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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The performance of Datadog is good."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"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."
"The stability has been great."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"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 dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
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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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