We performed a comparison between Nagios Core 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."
"Provides timely notifications."
"Alert calls occur anytime a service goes down or a matrix is difficult and that helps us to quickly restore service and transfer work."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"I like that it's very simple to install, easy to manage and deploy, and easy to use for monitoring."
"What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"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 feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the graphics."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"Nagios Core could improve by adding a user interface. If you want the user interface you have to use Nagios XI."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"I would like to see a sensor that shows the traffic of a user and what they're doing on the network."
"The tool needs to improve the integrations."
"I would like to see more training videos."
"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"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."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Nagios Core is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". 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". Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Icinga, Centreon and OP5 Monitor, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Nagios Core vs. SCOM report.
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