We performed a comparison between NETSCOUT vSTREAM 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."
"vSTREAM gives us better visibility and reporting about our network infrastructure, allowing for cost-optimization."
"One of the valuable features is the packet decoding."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user guide."
"I would like for it to have a smaller footprint of the virtual appliance and better performance."
"Room for improvement exists in filtering in the packet decode."
"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 be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
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NETSCOUT vSTREAM is ranked 72nd in Network Monitoring Software while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. NETSCOUT vSTREAM is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NETSCOUT vSTREAM writes "Troubleshooting at the packet level helps us resolve issues more quickly". 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 vSTREAM is most compared with vRealize Network Insight, Azure Network Watcher, NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG, Arista Data ANalyZer and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI.
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