We performed a comparison between Datadog 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 dashboards are great."
"I don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the elastic container service."
"The network map is crucial in identifying bottlenecks and determining what needs more attention."
"We really like the charts and visualization."
"The installation step is pretty straightforward."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"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 most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"This service could be less costly."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"For three to four months, we have been experiencing real-time delays. For example, if we're monitoring incoming traffic, the real-time status should be displayed up to a certain point. However, due to delays or issues with Datadog, the real-time data might only be updated at an earlier time. We are experiencing consistent delays in data updates from Datadog, with the most recent data often being delayed by about an hour. This issue has been ongoing for the past four months."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"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."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". 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". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Datadog vs. SCOM report.
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