We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"The initial setup is simple."
"I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work."
"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"The training on the dashboards that is provided could be a little bit better, as could the use cases. They should have some good examples out there. As it is right now, I had to scour YouTube to find some stuff."
"In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"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."
"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."
"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 solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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