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."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."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to take a report, and in particular, a visual, and link it to actual application performance and then the consequences. This means you can show how an incident or action has an effect on the business."
"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."
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"Technical support is helpful."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"The stability has been great."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"Its resiliency can be improved. We're told that the best we can do with an on-prem solution is to have a hot standby that requires a manual switchover. So, it is a do-it-yourself Ikea model of maintaining data consistency between two servers, without having low balance or failover considerations for an on-prem solution."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"The UI could use a little help."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"An area that has room for improvement on the CR and ERP would be the addition of monitoring of the internal solution. For example, you can monitor the day-to-day and everything in the transactions with AppDynamics, but there's also a lot going on in the kernel itself that you cannot monitor. The automation needs to improve as well. As it stands, a lot of customization needs to happen before you can use AppDynamics."
"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."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"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."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"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."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
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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