We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer 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."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 features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"It's easy to use."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"This solution gives us important information about the utilization of protocols, particularly in terms of how often they are used."
"As it offers enterprise solutions, it has all the essential features for business."
"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"The integration with other SolarWinds products is good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical."
"The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"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 end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"This solution does not do a very good job when I am trying to look deeper into my internal network, in particular with respect to individual ports."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly. You can see applications such as Facebook and YouTube, but SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer needs to have more visibility into more applications. Currently, SolarWinds fails to detect more powerful applications, such as Zoom and Teams. If SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can recognize every application and be able to report on each in terms of bandwidth, then that would be good. This is what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution."
"If your network is on SolarWinds, and you notice that the traffic is bad because it says "user downloading a heavy file," it doesn't indicate which endpoint is downloading those heavy files. SolarWinds doesn't have the tools to be able to handle this kind of situation. You can just notice through your network device that the traffic is becoming overwhelming or heavy, but you cannot go inside and get more details related to the endpoint where it is happening. We would like SolarWinds to be able to handle this kind of situation and even manage the traffic inside a network from the endpoint to the network device. These would be good enhancements. It is mostly stable. The problem comes only when we want to add another SolarWinds model. SolarWinds has so many models, and sometimes when we want to add other models on the platforms that are reserved for our firm, it freezes. When this happens, we have to create a new VM for that model."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic."
"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature."
"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."
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SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Zabbix, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM and Azure Network Watcher. See our SCOM vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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