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 technical support seems to be quick, clever, and has a comprehensive knowledge base online, which is fantastic."
"My opinion is that this solution is not very expensive."
"The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are the threshold notification when certain traffic increases and goes beyond the defined threshold. The up and down status email notifications and other notifications are useful. Additionally, it is user-friendly, and customizable, and there are many features available."
"One of the valuable features is the diversity of metrics available to us to monitor. It's all there, it's all in the box. It's all made very easy, by virtue of it being pre-configured."
"I would boldly say that this is the most scalable network monitoring tool that I know of"
"PRTG has improved our visibility and response time to issues related to remote sites."
"This solution provides us with the needed feedback on our IT infrastructure. It allows us to grab all the information from a single point of view."
"Good compilation of the system's information."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They could improve the process of updating the license."
"The only sort of limitation is the actual probes. So, if you don't have enough probes on there, you can over flip them and cause the WMI sensors and SNMP sensors to sort of overload. Sometimes, they might timeout for a minute, but they do come back."
"In our organization, we encounter performance issues with our PRTG probe service. I saw documentation from the vendor or Paessler mentioning that there are limitations for WMI sensors. Other than that, we are okay with PRTG."
"Their penetration within the market could be much better. If their pricing was lower, even though it's reasonable now, it might help them achieve this."
"Performance-wise, PRTG Network Monitor still needs improvement because a large number of SNMPv3 queries reduces tool performance."
"In a very few cases, customers want more detailed reports, which we cannot meet."
"We run it in a cluster, so we have two that run together. The cluster behind it is sketchy at times."
"The dashboarding definitely needs improvement."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"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."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 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, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and WhatsUp Gold, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and OpenText Operations Bridge. See our PRTG Network Monitor vs. SCOM report.
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