We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard 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."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"We like how Meraki Dashboard lets you manage all the devices in a single pane of glass. The dashboard is intuitive and easy to use. They are constantly updating the functionality. Switches from other vendors have the same features for the life of the device, but Meraki is always improving."
"It can analyze the traffic that it is picking up from what may be a rogue access point, and it is able to identify those and send relevant notifications."
"It's a simple, functional solution."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki Dashboard is we can manage our switches and access point in one place."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and a single-pane-of-glass that allows us to identify issues across the entire network from one dashboard."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
"There needs to be more improvement on the device-connected interface."
"The coverage has been an issue for us."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"I would like to receive decent notification alerts regarding the license's expiry. Or any help on correcting or optimizing licenses, because in certain circumstances you can add a license but it's the wrong licensing. However, the Dashboard adds the license in some way, and you do not utilize it. You can simply extend the license's expiration date."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."
"The cost of the solution is high and can 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."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"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 price could be improved."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". 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". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. SCOM report.
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