We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."From the performance management side, I like everything from business transaction work to tracking. On the database side, we can get a lot of insights from the database. On the server monitoring side, it helped us a lot to find out some of the issues on the VM side because VMs were creating a little trouble for us."
"I like that AppDynamics allows every organization to have what they want to see, like for my organization, we're able to customize the dashboard to show us details of what we want to see in our transactions."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"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."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The stability has been great."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"The price could be improved."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 154 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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