We performed a comparison between AppDynamics 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."The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"AppDynamics makes it much easier for us to detect problems or issues before they become problems. We have alerting on all of our business transactions."
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"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 features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"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."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"I think I would like to see a better way to deploy and upgrade the machine agents that we use. Currently, we have to use SCCM, and that might just be our environment with the customer."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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