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."The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift."
"I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"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."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"Needs more integration with applications suites, like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy."
"The end-user experience is not really good because we can't catch all of the transactions. We only can catch the full stack of flow transactions, but I think that this is caused by the technology they use. If they will catch every transaction, it will cause a very big load on the performance of applications. The monitoring of all transactions needs improvement."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 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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