We performed a comparison between PRTG Network Monitor and Scout APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"What I've found most valuable is the custom sensor, which allows you to write scripts or code to monitor a specific metric in your environment."
"The feature whereby it shows when my hard drives are moving towards thresholds that would be considered outages, before they reach that point - that is valuable."
"PRTG has improved our visibility and response time to issues related to remote sites."
"The feature I like is that it can easily do a lot of mapping."
"The remote probe feature in PRTG Network Monitor helps you monitor remote systems or your network at a lower cost than other solutions."
"The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts."
"I like the mobility of the PRTG Network Monitor and ITOps Dashboard."
"It is a user-friendly solution."
"The product can scale."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"Other monitoring tools that I have used are easier to use."
"The clustering aspect needs improvement, as there is a bit of confusion about you do when hit that 5000 probe mark."
"In the next release, PRTG Network Monitor should add a backup solution."
"PRTG does not allow us to scan devices like we can scan software or another problem in it. Also, I cannot draw graphical graphs in Woodview/look. Another problem is that we cannot draw a good diagram in PRTG."
"The technical support could respond a little bit quicker."
"In our organization, we encounter performance issues with our PRTG probe service. I saw documentation from the vendor or Paessler mentioning that there are limitations for WMI sensors. Other than that, we are okay with PRTG."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
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PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 32nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic and Grafana.
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