We performed a comparison between ScienceLogic and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring 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."
"I'm satisfied with ScienceLogicfor for what they can offer today because they can offer both serverless connectivity and agent connectivity."
"Power packs."
"Best feature of all is detailed monitoring of services, processes, ports and SSL certificates and or web content."
"Science Logic provides distributed and all-in-one concept in monitoring, you can easily customize the features in this product."
"When it comes to features, the power pack is the most valuable."
"One of the valuable features is rapid dashboards."
"Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server."
"Dynamic Component Mapping is key and unique."
"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."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They should improve their support process and add chat."
"The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There are often bugs in new releases."
"They should add CLI command modes and scripts for high performance."
"From a performance perspective, it needs to improve a lot."
"They should improve database issues in HA and Failover mode, and provide documentation for all users , even if they are not customers."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"I would like to see out-of-the-box standard dashboards for common services."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"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."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"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."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
ScienceLogic is ranked 5th in Event Monitoring with 42 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. ScienceLogic is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ScienceLogic writes "Great integrations, power flow, and good support". 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". ScienceLogic is most compared with Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM and Datadog, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our SCOM vs. ScienceLogic report.
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