We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, ServiceNow, Microsoft and others in Event Monitoring."We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"The most valuable feature is application monitoring."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."
"Monitoring of processes and services is the most valuable feature. It is not necessarily just the server alone in terms of the CPU or the memory. We can go in-depth into services and processes."
"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"SolarWinds is a very stable platform compared to others on the market."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"One area that could benefit from improvement is its performance"
"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."
"The tool's AppStack needs to improve in the storage monitoring part. It should also include an analytics and recommendation approach. If I have found a fault in a server or application, I would like to know what caused it and how do I recover from it."
"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."
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SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 10th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Lenovo XClarity Controller.
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