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."Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us... Most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We have highly scalable systems and AppDynamics will help us monitor our load on-prem. Our systems range from simple to the most complex and it gives us the visibility across transactions, in one dashboard."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"The stability has been great."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"It could do with more than one data centre/multiple AWS accounts in a pane of glass. Also, improved scalability to large environments would be helpful."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 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 Oracle Enterprise Manager, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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