We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's easy to use."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"NTA's most valuable feature is traffic analysis and visibility."
"In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth."
"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."
"What the network team found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it helps them to troubleshoot or analyze the issue. For example, traffic that comes from our location: India, goes to the US, so for the network team to analyze where the traffic comes from and where it is directed, and whether the packets are being dropped, they use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. The network team also likes that through the solution, they can analyze the complete traffic utilization and how they're going to use it. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is user-friendly. The team finds it comfortable to use."
"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."
"The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"With SolarWinds, we are now able to accurately gauge bandwidth consumption."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"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."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"It's scalable, but it could be simplified because it's not completely easy."
"They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature."
"As people always complain about the pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, it's an area for improvement in the solution. People find it expensive. Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is support, as it could be better."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"If your network is on SolarWinds, and you notice that the traffic is bad because it says "user downloading a heavy file," it doesn't indicate which endpoint is downloading those heavy files. SolarWinds doesn't have the tools to be able to handle this kind of situation. You can just notice through your network device that the traffic is becoming overwhelming or heavy, but you cannot go inside and get more details related to the endpoint where it is happening. We would like SolarWinds to be able to handle this kind of situation and even manage the traffic inside a network from the endpoint to the network device. These would be good enhancements. It is mostly stable. The problem comes only when we want to add another SolarWinds model. SolarWinds has so many models, and sometimes when we want to add other models on the platforms that are reserved for our firm, it freezes. When this happens, we have to create a new VM for that model."
"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."
"Technical support could be improved with quicker response times."
"It can be complex to set up and configure."
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SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 13 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 14 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "We can monitor all the VMs in our environment and access full insight reports for all the VMs, but the solution is not stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Good real-time traffic reports, but uncomfortably high pricing and mediocre support". SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and Nagios XI, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Zabbix, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, SolarWinds NPM and Meraki Dashboard. See our SCOM vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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