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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Its proactiveness is its most valuable feature. We already know when we come in, in the morning, if a server or site is down, as opposed to someone telling us."
"The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is its ease of use."
"We like the alerting system, the SNMP monitoring and the customization of the bandwidth."
"Its initial setup process is fast and easy."
"It's very easy to manage when you've got time to do some work on it: things like adding devices, adding groups, adding sensor clusters, and being able to clone and move stuff around."
"The solution is easy to manage and the reports are very accurate."
"It gives me a live view of the traffic on the WAN."
"What I've found most valuable is the custom sensor, which allows you to write scripts or code to monitor a specific metric in your environment."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"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."
"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."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement in this solution for the performance and third-party monitoring protocols. They need to be updated to the latest ones."
"Once you start going above 5000 sensors, things do start to get a bit shaky. There are some best practice out there that you will need to adopt and be aware of."
"I wouldn't mind better categories for the sensors. When I go to add a new sensor for a new device, there are some categories in there already, and they can be filtered out, but there's quite a large pool of sensors... When I want to go in and find something quite specific, I have got to scroll down and scroll down to find what I'm actually looking for,"
"Along with more room for automation, more room for advanced configuration can be integrated into the solution."
"PRTG Network Monitor needs to show bandwidth utilization in proper graphs. It isn't easy to learn."
"The solution has to evolve as an end-to-end monitoring solution. It has to do better at understanding the application at the deepest level."
"I know we're going to move to Docker applications and I understand that PRTG does some monitoring regarding this. I do not know if it is complete. If it's not yet complete, it's something they should consider improving."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve by having better integration with devices."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
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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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