We performed a comparison between SCOM and ThousandEyes 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."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"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."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"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."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"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 installation process is not hard at all."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The company provides excellent service."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"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."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"It's an expensive solution."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
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SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. 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 ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics. See our SCOM vs. ThousandEyes report.
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