We performed a comparison between PRTG Network Monitor and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The reporting module is easy to configure."
"Good compilation of the system's information."
"The scalability is good. You can improve a remote host or the clustering. This gives it the flexibility to monitor another infrastructure remotely."
"It is easy when it comes to dependencies of devices, so if your router goes down, the three or four switches behind it will automatically be paused so that you don't get multiple alerts."
"Stable solution for monitoring networks and bandwidth, with multiple functions and features such as NetFlow Collector, graphical monitoring, etc."
"The solution provides us with needed feedback on our IT infrastructure. It gives us really good quality of service when it comes to monitoring of available space and available resources. It allows us to preempt issues before they become a problem for the business."
"The best feature is that it lets me know what is going on. I need to know if something has gone down, I need to know if something is running very slowly. PRTG tells me that."
"The solution is scalable."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They should work on syncing the solution with Gmail."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve Layer 2 and Layer 3 network maps and the GUI more user-friendly. Additionally, they should bundle the features so I can monitor everything on one particular device."
"I've encountered a challenge in my functions, particularly in adding and printing."
"The licensing policy needs more flexibility."
"With custom sensors, there is a lot of work which needs to be done in the background, just for it to be tailor-made for the specific thing that we are actually monitoring. We take a lot of time with the custom sensors. I would like to see the customer sensor be more robust and a bit more varied."
"The scalability of this solution could improve as well as the automated provisioning of the infrastructure."
"There seems to be a big jump from the basic scan to the really thorough scan. There is a big jump in the quantity of sensors it uses for certain things. One minute you might get ten and then the next you get 200. There seems to be a big jump between the two at times."
"I would like to have a VM version that can be installed on a cloud such as Azure. We're using Azure, and we're eliminating on-premise servers. It would be helpful to have a PRTG version that can be installed on the Azure cloud."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"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."
PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". 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". PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and WhatsUp Gold, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and OpenText Operations Bridge. See our PRTG Network Monitor vs. SCOM report.
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