We performed a comparison between Dynatrace 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."One of the features that sets this product apart from its competitors is that it generates a solution."
"The stability for the solution is pretty solid overall."
"One of the most valuable features of Dynatrace is that it offers good visibility. It's better than other APM tools. You're not required to use a different technology when you have Dynatrace because it will work whether you're hosting it on Windows or Linux."
"The Session Replay not only allows us to watch the user in 4K video, but to see the individual steps happening behind the scenes, from a developer perspective. It gives us every single step that a user takes in a session, along with the ability to watch it as a video playback. We can see each call to every server as the user goes through the site. If something is broken or not running optimally, it's going to come up in the Session Replay."
"Enables my performance engineer to recreate a problem and give the developers what's happening, where to go look, all the information they need to be able to find what the root cause is."
"The visibility that it provides is most valuable."
"It helps DevOps find all its problems easily and analyzes performance problems."
"Reduces the amount of knowledge that is needed by applications consuming this data."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"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."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"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."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The integration between the web monitoring of Dynatrace and OneAgent. "
"Perhaps there is a FAQ which explains the metrics and how to interpret them, and I just haven't seen it. This would be beneficial in providing context to allow sharing the daily metrics reported within the company."
"We have a very stringent budget for an infrastructure solution. Maybe if they provided modules, a simple module with fewer features and a lower price, that would be very good."
"The solution's ability to assess the severity of anomalies based on the actual impact to users and business KPIs is great. In my opinion, it could be extended even more. I would like it to be more configurable for the end-user. It would be nice to have more business rules applicable to the severity. It's already very good as it is now. It is based on the impact on your front-end users. But it would be nice if we could configure it a bit more."
"It still has a long way to go to reach that single pane of glass."
"In AppMon, the performance could be improved. That is the one thing I am most interested in."
"For a new user of Dynatrace, the tool is not easy to understand, so this is an area for improvement. Before using it, you need to learn from an expert."
"I do not like after 60 days or 90 days it gets aggregated to summary data. I would like to be able to analyze specific PurePaths after 30 days or 60 days with real numbers."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"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."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". 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". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, AppDynamics, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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