We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and PRTG Network Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."The most valuable feature is the monitoring because it's very useful for checking and troubleshooting compared with other products, like Nagios for example, that have some interaction with Oracle."
"SQL Tuning Advisor, ADDM, Top Activity, ASM Space Manager, Incident Notifications"
"It's easy to implement as it's made by Oracle for Oracle."
"This solution allows us to quickly drill down when there are issues."
"The tried and tested services that Oracle provides is second to none."
"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a tool to monitor Oracle products."
"It is a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for managing database consolidation, something that has been missing and difficult to do."
"With ASH Analytics, ADDM, Real-Time SQL Monitoring, SQL Tuning Advisor, we can measure SLAs, detect performance hotspots, perform deep diagnostics into specific tiers, tune applications, and remediate."
"The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are bandwidth utilization, user-friendliness, all past report simple retrievals, and timeout features. Additionally, if the solution does go down it is simple to bring it back."
"We have asked questions of their technical support and they have a very good response time."
"The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are user-friendly, and the graphical interface is good for all the network devices that are mapped in this organization. It's very easy to find reports for any devices that we are looking for."
"We use the remote probes a lot for our branch offices. Instead of deploying the full instance of PRTG, we'll put a remote probe out there. This simplifies the whole deployment for us."
"It's very easy to manage when you've got time to do some work on it: things like adding devices, adding groups, adding sensor clusters, and being able to clone and move stuff around."
"We can see which fiber links have been used heavily and, if they are used heavily, we can introduce more links to particular buildings or particular areas."
"I think net flow is PRTG's most valuable feature because it doesn't cost much for us because the net flow sensor is already included in the PRTG license. We can monitor our traffic in our proxy and router."
"The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is the dashboards. We can check to see the resources and the uptime."
"In my opinion, rather than a younger DBA, think the user interface could be improved."
"RMAN tools need improvement."
"There's a lot of documentation to go through as a new user."
"The solution is considered expensive."
"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager six out of 10 for affordability. It's expensive."
"My opinion is that this solution needs to improve consolidation. That is what our business needs the most right now."
"Reporting and statistical charting is largely still left up the end-user to develop custom solutions."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The technical support service should be improved."
"I would like the ability to monitor Cisco IRS devices."
"The clustering aspect needs improvement, as there is a bit of confusion about you do when hit that 5000 probe mark."
"Sometimes, our PRTG Network Monitor system crashes and a lot of sensors go down."
"The desktop app is the one area where it do with some improvement. From a user's perspective, I would like to be able to get more out of the desktop app as opposed to where we are now with it."
"This product can be improved by updating the net flow interface. The one that is in place works – I can get all the information I need from it – but it is a little bit clunky."
"I know we're going to move to Docker applications and I understand that PRTG does some monitoring regarding this. I do not know if it is complete. If it's not yet complete, it's something they should consider improving."
"The automation should be improved."
Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 123 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Quest Spotlight, AppDynamics and BMC TrueSight Operations Management, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager.
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