We performed a comparison between PRTG Network Monitor 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 email notifications are helpful, and the dashboards are user-friendly for people with little network monitoring knowledge."
"It is very flexible, and we can monitor many aspects of IT as well as ERP and CRM services. It has a very powerful interface and APIs for customization."
"The Slack integration is fantastic, and I've actually found it to be very useful recently."
"The most valuable aspect is the diverse range of features it offers."
"The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are user-friendly, and the graphical interface is good for all the network devices that are mapped in this organization. It's very easy to find reports for any devices that we are looking for."
"PRTG Network Monitor helps us quickly and easily discover a large number of sensors, so we can spend minimal time monitoring customer sites."
"It is able to satisfy all our requirements in terms of email notifications and specific errors on the devices."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The stability has been great."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"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."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"It's easy to use."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve by adding prevention and detection features."
"In our organization, we encounter performance issues with our PRTG probe service. I saw documentation from the vendor or Paessler mentioning that there are limitations for WMI sensors. Other than that, we are okay with PRTG."
"More training videos for installing and configuring this software would have been nice, especially when working with a lot of devices."
"PRTG would be improved if it required less memory to run."
"The scalability of this solution could improve as well as the automated provisioning of the infrastructure."
"We have had a few issues with the web elements, as far as the dashboard. With the dashboard, it has to be manually refreshed. Occasionally, we reboot the server, or at least web services, due to the web aspect."
"The desktop app is the one area where it do with some improvement. From a user's perspective, I would like to be able to get more out of the desktop app as opposed to where we are now with it."
"Mostly, this software has sensors for devices to monitor specs and you can build or develop or modify various sensors, according to your company's needs. But you may need to do that with coding or plugins or with the support of Paessler AG, the manufacturer."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". 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". PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and Datadog, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and OpenText Operations Bridge. See our PRTG Network Monitor vs. SCOM report.
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