We performed a comparison between PRTG Network Monitor and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It is a very stable solution. There are no bugs, glitches and we have not experienced any crashing."
"It is nice to have one place where all the information is right there in front of us."
"The product is simple and easy to implement."
"We use the remote probes a lot for our branch offices. Instead of deploying the full instance of PRTG, we'll put a remote probe out there. This simplifies the whole deployment for us."
"The solution is easy to manage and the reports are very accurate."
"The bandwidth monitoring is a very attractive feature, it can tell you the bandwidth utilization while it is attempting to connect to the host for feedback."
"The feature I like is that it can easily do a lot of mapping."
"I think net flow is PRTG's most valuable feature because it doesn't cost much for us because the net flow sensor is already included in the PRTG license. We can monitor our traffic in our proxy and router."
"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."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"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."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The licensing policy needs more flexibility."
"The free version only gives us 100 free sensors to use. It would be nice if there was double that."
"The product could be improved by being cross-platform friendly."
"We have had a few issues with the web elements, as far as the dashboard. With the dashboard, it has to be manually refreshed. Occasionally, we reboot the server, or at least web services, due to the web aspect."
"They just released a newer version of the desktop app, a beta version, that I have been trialing out. I prefer the older version, only because of how the layout is designed"
"They could improve the process of updating the license."
"Sometimes, it is difficult to drill down further to get information, e.g., if we saw spike in traffic, then we would want to drill down and find out what is causing that spike in traffic."
"The operations dashboard is only available in PRTG's enterprise version, but I wish it could be accessed in the standard licensing. It would also be nice if PRTG had templates for dashboard monitoring, software monitoring, etc. It can help me set up a dashboard because now we don't have a template from PRTG, so we need to create one from scratch."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". 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". PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and Datadog, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and OpenText Operations Bridge. See our PRTG Network Monitor vs. SCOM report.
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