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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"The management of SLOs and their related burn-rate monitors have allowed us to onboard teams to on-call fast."
"Since we integrated Datadog, we have had increased confidence in the quality of our service, and we had an easier time increasing our delivery velocity."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Federated views for Datadog dashboards are critical as large companies utilize multiple instances of the product and cannot link the metrics or correlate the metrics together. This stunts the usage of Datadog."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"The price could be improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"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."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"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."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
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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, AppDynamics and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Datadog vs. SCOM report.
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