We performed a comparison between SCOM and WhatsUp Gold 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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
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SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and SolarWinds NPM, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our SCOM vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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