We performed a comparison between Datadog and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The most valuable feature of Datadog is its logs."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"The feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The stability has been great."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"I've only been using Datadog for a few months, and at first, it was frankly overwhelming in terms of both the UI and the available capabilities."
"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."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". 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". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Datadog vs. SCOM report.
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