We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and SolarWinds Pingdom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution doesn't require any maintenance from our end because it is a cloud-based solution and Microsoft takes care of everything."
"It lets you know what your infrastructure is like and what state you are in."
"I like its ease of use. It does what you need it to do, and it's a one-stop-shop for the company and for all your deployments. If you incorporate Intune into it, you can have both. You can bring your own devices and corporate devices, and everything runs out of SCCM and Intune."
"Automation of operating system, application, and update deployments massively reduces IT operations effort."
"The product is useful for patch management."
"It's a stable product."
"There is a faster time to rollout. If we get a new PC, it can be ready for productivity right away."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"I would like to see some improvements in WSUS and control of other, non-Microsoft, product updates."
"With Microsoft Premier Support, you get what you pay for. There's Third Tier Support that you pay for. If you pay for that, you get excellent support, and if you don't pay for that, then you get the less experienced staff."
"There's no way to say, "I want this maintenance window to be on the second Tuesday of the month." It's strict. This window is this and that's it. You can't fluctuate."
"SCCM does not scale well, which is one of the reasons we are not going to continue to use it."
"The setup was complex and I faced a lot of problems initially because I was new to the solution."
"It would be nice to have everything in one place. Now they have Intune for the desktops and SCCM to handle their servers."
"It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one."
"The analysis is something that can be integrated. Their report analysis can be improved a little bit due to the fact that most of the time complaints policies are saved by the admins. It's something that we need to look into and search for."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 26 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 2 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Lets us remotely deploy and manage thousands of devices over the network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor, Grafana, New Relic and Catchpoint. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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