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  • "Pricing and licensing are horrible. You have to not look at dollar value to use SCCM. It's super-duper expensive but it works. The acquisition cost is expensive, it's labor-intensive. But it works."
  • "Pricing and licensing are a downside of SCCM. It's expensive. I'd have to confirm this, but I think they changed the licensing to core-based instead of socket-based. It's not cheap, because you have to buy the software, you have to buy SQL. Another thing we learned from talking to Microsoft is that they provide you a license for SQL if you run it on the same box as the primary server. If you run it outside that box, you have to buy SQL. Microsoft does recommend you running it on the same box because of performance. But then, in order to run SQL, SCCM, and everything on the same box, you better have some resources. It's an expensive solution. There's no doubt about it."
  • "Overall, I think it's fine. It's pretty much in-line because there are ways to offset it with the Office 365 licensing."
  • "SCCM comes with its own version of SQL Server. If you use that SQL Server with SCCM and don't use it for another applications than you get an SQL Server for free."
  • "The licensing is good because they have various options, depending on what you are looking for."
  • "Pricing is negotiable with Microsoft, depending upon which of their packages you choose."
  • "When you compare this solution with other tools in the market you might actually find a lot of variation in the pricing and that's why people opt for the other tools rather than Microsoft tools."
  • "Its price is okay because it is part of our licensing."

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    Also Known As
    Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM )
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    Overview

    Microsoft Configuration Manager helps IT manage PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving employees access to corporate applications on the devices that they choose. When Configuration Manager is integrated with Microsoft Intune, you can manage corporate-connected PCs and Macs along with cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, all from a single management console.

    New features of Configuration Manager, such as the support of Windows 10 in-place upgrade, co-management with Microsoft Intune, Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Servicing Dashboard, integration with Windows Update for Business, and more make deploying and managing Windows easier than ever before.

    Sematext Monitoring is a full-stack IT infrastructure monitoring software that gives you real-time visibility across your infrastructure. Whether on-premise, in the cloud, or a mix of anything in between, Sematext can monitor your whole stack.

    Monitor the status of your:

    • Applications
    • servers
    • containers
    • processes
    • Inventory
    • Events
    • Databases
    • and a whole lot more.

    Cut down MTTR by spotting and troubleshooting infrastructure performance issues faster no matter whether they occur on-premise, in your cloud, or in hybrid environments.

    Infrastructure Monitoring Benefits

    • Resolve production issues fast and easily.
      Get a complete picture of your distributed applications from end-to-end, so you can spot bottlenecks, and resolve production issues as quickly as possible. Detect anomalies and received alerts for latencies, error rates, or throughput. Get support for fully distributed applications and transaction tracing. Understand true application architecture with real-time service maps.

    • Streamline metrics and logs in one, unified view.
      Monitor and troubleshoot faster with a single dashboard that can include metrics and event logs for application and server logs, alerts, anomalies, and much more, so you can monitor and troubleshoot, and get to the root cause in minutes. Find similar patterns with built-in correlation.

    • Alerting system that's got your back.
      Alert on metrics and logs. It's simple: run a query, save it as an alert query, optionally select additional notification hooks like Slack, PagerDuty, etc... Use query filters to narrow down on logs you really want to alert on – e.g. severity:ERROR. Use threshold-based alerts if you have specific thresholds and get notified when the number of logs hits the threshold. Use anomaly detection to be alerted on sudden abnormalities in your logs and let statistical algorithms find abnormal log counts.

    • Simple agent installation, zero maintenance.
      Monitor your infrastructure and centralize all of your logs with a simple agent installation. Copy, paste, and you're done. Sematext now has your logs, is monitoring your infrastructure, and has set up alerts for you already.

    • 100+ cloud-ready integrations
      It's easy to collect and analyze metrics and events across your entire stack with numerous integrations. Simply maintain a real-time view of your enterprise or cloud infrastructure while collecting and reporting metrics and events. Slice and dice by a number of context-aware filters.

    • By DevOps, for DevOps.
      Custom Metrics? APIs? We’ve got 'em! Open HTTP APIs let you ship Custom Metrics from your apps. Capture and send app, business, and other event data. Use open-source metrics libraries for Java, Ruby, and Node.js, and automate alerts with APIs

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    Just some of the things you can do with Sematext Synthetics

    • Server monitoring
      • See CPU, memory, disk usage, IO, network, load, and other metrics
      • Filter using tags, hosts, disks, network interfaces, and more
      • Get the big picture with an aggregate top-down view of all your infrastructure
      • Get alerts on any metric and use visualizations for capacity planning
    • Cloud & container monitoring
      • See container-specific metrics for CPU, memory, disk usage, IO, network, load, and much more
      • Correlate container metrics and logs for faster troubleshooting
      • Get logs parsed, structured, enriched, masked, and more for flexible reporting and fast search
    • Database monitoring
      • Connection details (used connections, aborted clients…)
      • Threads, open files, cache usage
      • Traffic in and out of DB, queries/questions details, slow queries count, select/sort usage stats
      • Tables, handlers metrics
      • Detailed MyISAM and InnoDB engines stats
    • Transaction tracing
      • Find slow database operations
      • View full SQL statements
      • See end-to-end HTTP transaction context, through multiple tiers, including full call traces
      • Get the top 10 operations by throughput, latency, or time consumed
      • Filter database operations by type
    • Network monitoring
      • View your complete infrastructure as a dynamic network map
      • Perform network performance monitoring with real-time receive and transmit rates and ports used for communication
      • Explore multiple map views with zooming, panning, and filtering
      • Control monitored network interfaces and filter out uninteresting endpoints
    • Application performance monitoring
      • Pinpoint the root causes of poor application performance with deep-dive analysis
      • Find the slow and suboptimal parts of your application
      • Trace requests across networks and apps all the way down to databases
      • Expose slow SQL statements
    • And much, much more...

    Where to go from here?

    Sign up for a free trial and try it for yourself. No credit card needed. We offer both free and paid plans. Our commercial plan starts at $3.6/mo per host per day for 7-day retention and you can try it free for 14 days. The free plan includes max 5 free hosts for 30-minute retention.

    Sample Customers
    Bank Alfalah Ltd., Wªrth Handelsges.m.b.H, Dimension Data, Japan Business Systems, St. Lucie County Public Schools, MISC Berhad
    Access Intelligence Plc, Adore Beauty, Aera Technology, Agmatix, alaTest Reviews, All Time Data Pvt., Appsari, Appwrite, aren.co, ASK Staffing, Associated Company, Atlantic American Corp, Avast Software, Bata, Binerals, BITTE KAI RAND, Bixlabs, Boost Insurance, Bora, Broadcom, BUFF Technologies LTD, ClariLab, CoinSocialStory, Comelit Group S.p.A., CommIT, createME S.A.S, Cyberwise, Deepbluecompany, deeprojects, Depth-Sa, DIEPA Personal, Diesel Laptops, DigiHaul, Digitaltentstudio, Doole Health, Dovetail Technologies Ltd, Duratex, Ebctechnologies, ECB, Ekcsoft, Emento, Empact IT, Enhance-It, Ennomail, Enterprise Knowledge, ESCIO AS, Essential Assists, european primary placement facility, Evercoder Software SRL, Extendi srl, Ezgiant, Ezyhaul, Factinsect, Fenom Digital, Fino, fino, fino.team, Firespring, Fulcrum, General Authority for Statistics, GradGuard, Grovia, Halo Media LLC, Health Catalyst, hkcac.io, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, InfoAsilo, Information Customer Service My Account Navgrahaa Jewels, Inpla, Ipdetect, Isovist, isovist.net.au, iVendi Limited, Ivinco, Jan Ptáček, Kal-It, Kronozio, Leen151, Macrovo, MediaLab 3D Solutions, Metabolic Living, Minteo, Mobizcorp GmbH, Moneri, Moqups, Morizon-Gratka, Morrison Agency, MotivIT, Mrcall, NETIM, Nevelen, New Media Services, Nextgenins, NIUKS, Nordic, Nordic Naturals, North Star Network, Noveo Group, Novopayment, ObjectifSEO, Pharmacies BENU SA, Planis, ProcessUnity, Pulsar Platform, QIMA, QL Gaming Group, quadry.co.in, RedINTER, RedINTER Colombia, Rudderstack, SeatGeek, Section, Sematext Group Inc, SHIFT Connect, Solidstudio, Sparkle Place, Spineor, Spot Metrics, Stanford University, SteelEye, TP EQUIPMENT LEASING, TalentPools, Taroko, Teams, Telna, Termly, The Institute of Internal Auditors, Thorborn, Treatwell, Trikdis, Tutanota, Universal Equations, Upmenu, Velocitor Solutions, vendnovation, Verztec Consulting, Vuelio, Wahoo Fitness, Warehaus, Wealthica, Weareyourhero, Wevr, Workframe, Workmade, Yellen, Zenus Bank
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Insurance Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews while Sematext Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 32nd in Server Monitoring. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while Sematext Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium, whereas Sematext Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with .

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