We performed a comparison between Datadog 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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Datadog is easy to use and easy to deploy. It's a better solution compared to others on the market in terms of being budget friendly for our customers."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"The platform appeals to companies spanning many industries on a global scale."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"I've only been using Datadog for a few months, and at first, it was frankly overwhelming in terms of both the UI and the available capabilities."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". 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". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Nagios XI, AppDynamics and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Datadog vs. SCOM report.
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