We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager 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 is very stable. We never had any issues with stability."
"IBM's main value lies in its integration with its own technologies, which can be seen as a benefit in environments where IBM products are extensively used."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The user interface was not good."
"The installation process is difficult, requiring continuous support and specialist expertise due to our limited knowledge of managing it effectively."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"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 lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
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IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is ranked 53rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 2 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 76 reviews. IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is rated 6.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager writes "Integrates well with IBM technologies, but it's outdated and lacks essential features". 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". IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is most compared with Dynatrace, IBM Application Performance Management and Azure Monitor, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and AppDynamics.
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