We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, ServiceNow, Microsoft and others in Event Monitoring."This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"One of the most valuable features are the reports. They're pretty good. Also, the ease of installation and customization for the client is another feature that we value. SolarWinds has a lot of features but these are the ones I like the most. We also like that the KPIs have the ability to be preset."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"Monitoring of processes and services is the most valuable feature. It is not necessarily just the server alone in terms of the CPU or the memory. We can go in-depth into services and processes."
"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."
"We use the solution as a central monitoring tool. We use it to monitor every transaction that has a relation to the organization’s infrastructure."
"SolarWinds is a very stable platform compared to others on the market."
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
"The current script monitoring feature has limitations, especially when dealing with custom scripts."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."
"They should incorporate more artificial intelligence. There should also be more predictive features."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve by having a cloud version. They have an observability platform but it still needs to be maintained by us."
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SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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 SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Lenovo XClarity Controller.
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