We performed a comparison between Datadog 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."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"They have a very good foundation in capturing metrics, logs, and traces. It's a very nice tool for that and it allows you to apply these monitoring tools in almost any technology."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"Thanks to the logs, we manage to make better reports through Jira and also to trace the request with more facility than we would be able to do otherwise."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"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."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"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."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". 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". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Nagios XI, ManageEngine OpManager and AppDynamics. See our Datadog vs. SCOM report.
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