We performed a comparison between NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It helps us to assist our customers to isolate problems. If it is us who is having the problem, then we can use it to streamline the process."
"It helps us get to root cause quickly. With utilization and consumption of bandwidth, we can usually see what application is taking as much as they should (or shouldn't), then account for it accordingly."
"It has cut our troubleshooting down by days. Once we have a product in place, we show people examples of how it can streamline their troubleshooting process."
"The most valuable feature is utilization."
"The technical support is really good. They will go above and beyond, if you are running into a problem. You can go to a sales engineer, who will engage technical support to help you out."
"I love the single pane of glass view. It makes it easier to not have to navigate everywhere. It allows more simplistic visibility, without having to go from tool to tool to tool, or from window to window to window."
"The real-time troubleshooting and application segregation that you can do within it."
"The ability to troubleshoot customers' connectivity has been very beneficial."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It's not able to communicate with our probes."
"I would like to see an improved level of stitching between IPs."
"Only problems that we have had are fiber issues going into the TAPs or vSTREAMs, which are usually local site issues."
"The monitoring and reporting tool needs improvement. Users want more information, such as the level of detail when doing a packet analysis. They want more detail to be able to isolate down to a specific point."
"The technology goes end-of-life on us every year, which is why I am looking forward to vSTREAM. I don't like when devices go end-of-life on us so quickly. If we can get more of an advanced notice of when an end-of-life is brought up, because our certification process within the organization takes a while."
"The scalability has some limitations and quirks to it. I would like to be able to upgrade rather than replace the whole thing."
"Being able to manage the packet flow switches in nGeniusONE would be great."
"The stability depends on who is using the tool, because you only can get as much out of the tool as you put into it. There are a lot of patches for this particular environment, so you have to keep on them. If you lose track of them, then the product is not useful anymore."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"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."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is ranked 63rd in Network Monitoring Software with 13 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is rated 8.4, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG writes "Once you know how to use the product, it's easy and simple ". 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". NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is most compared with NETSCOUT vSTREAM, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI.
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