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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The network visualization helps us to drill down deeper."
"It has made our infrastructure more reliable."
"The remote probes are very useful. They allow us to provide a reference across different areas in the network. In trying to localize issues, that's very useful."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard interface. It's very clean, it's very simple to use."
"It's very easy to manage when you've got time to do some work on it: things like adding devices, adding groups, adding sensor clusters, and being able to clone and move stuff around."
"The installation is not that complex."
"Speed of deployment is one of the most valuable features."
"It's easy to use."
"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 advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The stability has been great."
"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."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Needs ability to monitor standard notification time (notify after X time)."
"I would like to see them take their graphing tools and convert them into a collector so that we can point telemetry to them"
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve by adding prevention and detection features."
"This solution is a good product so far, but I haven't been using it long enough to know how it could be improved."
"More training videos for installing and configuring this software would have been nice, especially when working with a lot of devices."
"The operations dashboard is only available in PRTG's enterprise version, but I wish it could be accessed in the standard licensing. It would also be nice if PRTG had templates for dashboard monitoring, software monitoring, etc. It can help me set up a dashboard because now we don't have a template from PRTG, so we need to create one from scratch."
"The technical support could respond a little bit quicker."
"We've had some issues previously with the performance of the sensors. We tend to deploy quite a bit of WMI, which is quite processor-intensive, and we've found that that impacts the sensors quite a bit."
"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."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The price could be improved."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
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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, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and LibreNMS, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and New Relic. See our PRTG Network Monitor vs. SCOM report.
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