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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of Datadog is its logs."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"It has enhanced the performance of my team."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"It's easy to use."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"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 technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"We have asked technical support questions, and sometimes they don't get back to us right away. Or when they do, it is not the right answer."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"The setup was a bit complex."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"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."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
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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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