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."The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"The ability to check parameters for microservice applications is most valuable. It is important for me. I can manually create new business transactions for applications and individually monitor business transactions. I can also use a lot of extensions. It has a lot of extensions to monitor other third-party applications, such as NoSQL applications, memory cache applications, Kafka applications, and Couchbase applications. It is very useful. We are also using the end-user monitoring site to follow all end-user activities. It is important for us to check the errors on the customer site."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"We have been able to monitor our applications more accurately."
"After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"The stability has been great."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"It could do with more than one data centre/multiple AWS accounts in a pane of glass. Also, improved scalability to large environments would be helpful."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"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."
"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."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"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."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
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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