We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds NPM 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 most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"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 most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"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."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The solution is extremely stable. We haven't had any issues in that regard. We haven't had issues with bugs, glitches, or crashes."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We deployed the solution from new and completed the upgrades."
"This solution offers a very good view of our network and allows us to effectively monitor performance."
"Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"As we look to add more servers to our virtual environment and to understand the impact, the solution allows us to dig into the historical charts related to capacity planning."
"What I've found most valuable about the solution is that it's scalable."
"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"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."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"I would like to have a Syslog server module for this product. That would make the solution better."
"The dashboard of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. 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 NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, Nagios XI and New Relic, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor. See our SCOM vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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