We performed a comparison between PagerDuty Operations Cloud and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about PagerDuty, Atlassian, Everbridge and others in IT Alerting and Incident Management."PagerDuty's notification process is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."
"PagerDuty is very stable and very reliable."
"The most valuable features of PagerDuty are customization, access, policies, and different rules regarding the path of escalation. Additionally, it's easy to use and create overrides. For example, if you all are on a call for one week each, but somebody wants to go on PTO, the team needs to swap shifts in PagerDuty. This is easy to do by creating overrides to switch up the set schedules. It's very user-friendly in that aspect. It works well for monitoring and alerting."
"The product easily integrates with other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the flexibility of the schedule. The mobile app is quite also good for what we do: for receiving alerts, acknowledging, assigning, adding new responders. It has rich features for our needs."
"The SMS pages and the mobile application are pretty much the top two features."
"The product has valuable on-call scheduling, escalation, and incident workflow management features."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"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 is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"It’s quite hard to reach the support team."
"I would like to see more content in the notification messages; although, that might be a configuration on our end."
"There is room for improvement with the time schedule. The way the schedule currently works is you assign all the team members in one schedule and it automatically spreads them around throughout the schedule... It would be better to be able to edit the schedule and place my team members where I want, or at least to have that option in addition to the automatic process."
"The solution's analytics are okay. I don't think the features, at this point, give you a lot of insights. We have actually been trying to get insights from it but it hasn't really given us a lot of extra points to explore. We were looking at the number of alerts to see where many of the alerts were coming from. We never managed to get many insights on this."
"PagerDuty can improve the integration with Terraform."
"Because of the way you have to structure the rosters, if an engineer has to go on leave (or something), you can't just go in and reassign/take this person out of all of the different rosters that they're in. You have to go into each of the rosters and take them out. There might be a roster for business hours, after hours rotation, and monitoring deployments. Each time we need to take an engineer out of the pool, e.g., if they're sick or on leave, then we have to go and touch all of those rosters, updating and replacing them. Whereas, if we could just take the person out and have it automatically fill in the rostering, then that would make life a lot easier for managing it."
"PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration."
"I am not a direct end user of PagerDuty. It's hard to consider its shortcomings in that sense."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"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."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"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."
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is ranked 1st in IT Alerting and Incident Management with 35 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. PagerDuty Operations Cloud is rated 8.8, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of PagerDuty Operations Cloud writes "Effectively generates alerts for incidents, making it suitable for 24/7 monitoring of infrastructure". 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". PagerDuty Operations Cloud is most compared with Opsgenie, ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Splunk On-Call and Everbridge IT Alerting, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics.
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