We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"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."
"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 tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"This solution gives us important information about the utilization of protocols, particularly in terms of how often they are used."
"What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature."
"What I like about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it's useful for analyzing traffic. It also has an application visibility feature that lets you control applications."
"For managing the traffic, it provides you a response about whether the traffic is down, up, or heavy, which is a very powerful feature. It has a good response time. We have been using this solution for many years, and we don't have any problem with this solution."
"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."
"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky."
"As people always complain about the pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, it's an area for improvement in the solution. People find it expensive. Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is support, as it could be better."
"It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts."
"If your network is on SolarWinds, and you notice that the traffic is bad because it says "user downloading a heavy file," it doesn't indicate which endpoint is downloading those heavy files. SolarWinds doesn't have the tools to be able to handle this kind of situation. You can just notice through your network device that the traffic is becoming overwhelming or heavy, but you cannot go inside and get more details related to the endpoint where it is happening. We would like SolarWinds to be able to handle this kind of situation and even manage the traffic inside a network from the endpoint to the network device. These would be good enhancements. It is mostly stable. The problem comes only when we want to add another SolarWinds model. SolarWinds has so many models, and sometimes when we want to add other models on the platforms that are reserved for our firm, it freezes. When this happens, we have to create a new VM for that model."
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SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. 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 NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Zabbix, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM and Wireshark. See our SCOM vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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