We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, ServiceNow, Microsoft and others in Event Monitoring."This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"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."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"This product can monitor application environments no matter where they reside and provides capabilities for deep insight into infrastructure."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"One of the most valuable features are the reports. They're pretty good. Also, the ease of installation and customization for the client is another feature that we value. SolarWinds has a lot of features but these are the ones I like the most. We also like that the KPIs have the ability to be preset."
"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"SAM's software-defined network monitoring capability is also low and could be improved."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
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SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Lenovo XClarity Controller.
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