We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."I have reduced our disruption time. With the automatic alerts, we prevent and better catch the root cause of problems."
"The overall application monitoring ability to do alerts."
"Helps in managing capacity planning, services performance, and tuning database performance and optimizing queries."
"Finds issues that previously occupied people for months."
"Scalability is great. My biggest concern when we first put it in was the resources that it would take up, network traffic that it might create. But it seems perfectly scalable to any environment. Even on some of our heaviest use servers, it doesn't seem to affect anything."
"Real user monitoring is one of the best things in solution. The possibility to analyze any particular user session is wonderful."
"We are using it on most of our platforms, which are on a big scale and across the globe."
"The features that we find most valuable are automatic root cause detection, topology discovery, and session replay."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"Needs more compatibility of platforms out-of-the-box."
"We are waiting on the new features to see how they perform."
"There are a couple gaps in the network reporting that we would like to see cleared up a bit."
"The solution's user interface could be improved."
"For an easy view of global and entity-specific configurations, a separate tile or pane aggregating these configurations should be implemented."
"One thing that I would like to see is for companies like us - large AppMon customers that have a lot of presence in AppMon, a lot of manually configured things and customizations - would be something that would help us be able to make that journey more easily, the transition from to AppMon to Dynatrace."
"They could also, develop an observability platform where you could have the ability to inject events, locks, and traces."
"Adding people to alerts has not been very intuitive. That's really my only negative feedback."
"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."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The price could be improved."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". 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". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI, ManageEngine OpManager and AppDynamics.
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