We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network."
"NTA's most valuable feature is traffic analysis and visibility."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."
"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."
"As it offers enterprise solutions, it has all the essential features for business."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"What the network team found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it helps them to troubleshoot or analyze the issue. For example, traffic that comes from our location: India, goes to the US, so for the network team to analyze where the traffic comes from and where it is directed, and whether the packets are being dropped, they use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. The network team also likes that through the solution, they can analyze the complete traffic utilization and how they're going to use it. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is user-friendly. The team finds it comfortable to use."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"NTA's documentation for the implementation phase needs some enhancement."
"It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts."
"I would like to see better customization capabilities."
"There are some areas for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. There are some challenges with the solution when compared to other monitoring tools such as difficulty in operations and difficulty with backup installation. My team is currently trying out different solutions but would need to see how it goes."
"The solution needs better log management and log coordination with tools."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly. You can see applications such as Facebook and YouTube, but SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer needs to have more visibility into more applications. Currently, SolarWinds fails to detect more powerful applications, such as Zoom and Teams. If SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can recognize every application and be able to report on each in terms of bandwidth, then that would be good. This is what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution."
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SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. 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 SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Zabbix, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM and Wireshark. See our SCOM vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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