We performed a comparison between Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline and SCOM 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."The most valuable feature for improving network visibility with Gigamon is the packet filtering capability."
"It offers straightforward integration."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the encryption feature. From a security perspective, the solution hasn't significantly strengthened our security posture. However, it has greatly improved performance by streamlining encryption processes and avoiding encryption at multiple layers. This has also simplified troubleshooting, as we can whitelist certain processes."
"It is a good product. It provides network visibility, which is important. Gigamon can bring some optimizations to my network. It is helpful for security inspection, and it makes my firewall work fast because my firewall doesn't have to do the inspection of the SSL connections, for example."
"It has high stability."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The graphical user interface could be improved."
"They should increase the solution's cluster capacity."
"Its filtering feature needs improvement."
"The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline should have a feature showing the traffic flow within its platform. Currently, customers have to use separate tools for monitoring, which is inconvenient. If it had its visibility feature, it would make monitoring easier and more complete without needing extra tools."
"It only inspects a specific kind of traffic. There should be different kinds of use cases."
"The security should be improved."
"In terms of improvement, while the initial setup is not overly complicated, we did encounter a few issues."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"The price could be improved."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
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Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline is ranked 10th in Event Monitoring with 7 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline writes "Stable solution with good technical support service". 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". Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline is most compared with Ixia Network Packet Brokers, Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker, Arista Data ANalyZer, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline vs. SCOM report.
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