We performed a comparison between Checkmk 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 most valuable features of Checkmk are its resource monitoring, infra monitoring, and log factor configuration."
"We can monitor multiple sites using the product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it has a lot of different pieces, and they all work together...It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I really like the auto-discovery feature."
"It's versatile, scalable, and easier to use compared to other solutions like Nagios and OMD."
"The initial setup of Checkmk was easy...It is a very stable solution."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"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."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"If an alert is generated for a specific pattern in the log, and if Checkmk catches that log, it will stay there even after the alert is resolved."
"It is easy for tech-savvy people, but newcomers might find it intimidating."
"In Checkmk, the documentation can probably be improved a bit more."
"Sometimes we receive alerts, and it can become annoying when you acknowledge an alert. It is very clunky when you acknowledge the alert. The process is not very intuitive, and there are instances where it feels a bit cumbersome to acknowledge an alert."
"I think that the integration and the exporting of the data collected are areas where Checkmk lacks but should try to improve the most."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"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."
Checkmk is ranked 21st in Network Monitoring Software with 6 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Checkmk is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Checkmk writes "A reasonably priced tool for system and application monitoring". 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". Checkmk is most compared with Zabbix, Icinga, Netdata, Centreon and OpenNMS , whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Checkmk vs. SCOM report.
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