We performed a comparison between Observer Apex 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."
"Network visibility is the most valuable feature."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"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."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The stability has been great."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The pricing and AI can be improved."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
Observer Apex is ranked 93rd in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Observer Apex is rated 0.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Observer Apex writes "Has good network visibility ". 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". Observer Apex is most compared with , whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI.
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