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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"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."
"The fact that I can use custom MIB files to customize my sensors for the things that are not there as a default is a good feature."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to span multiple technologies and multiple vendors."
"It allows us to directly add individual VMs independently."
"Accessibility, ease of use (Web GUI, MobileApps). In general, compared with other software"
"PRTG Network Monitor helps us quickly and easily discover a large number of sensors, so we can spend minimal time monitoring customer sites."
"Technical support has been very helpful so far."
"It is great for service level agreements and can comply fully with internet monitoring or any interface."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"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 most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The stability has been great."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The technical support could respond a little bit quicker."
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve by having a feature to allow uploading of preset standard network switch configurations and the ability to monitor the SLA configuration, such as uptime for the switches or internet connectivity. This would be very useful."
"I would like to see network mapping."
"Maybe in the future there will be room for improvement, but currently, there is nothing pressing that I can think of"
"This product can be improved by updating the net flow interface. The one that is in place works – I can get all the information I need from it – but it is a little bit clunky."
"PRTG Network Monitor is okay to use, but you'll need some time to analyze the data. If it can automatically locate or identify the problem area, it would be more helpful to users."
"We're using more cloud services now. It would be useful to be able to get information back from these cloud services in detail, and display any issues within PRTG for the rest of our systems."
"They could improve the process of updating the license."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"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."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"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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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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