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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) vs. Prometheus

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a monitoring and application performance management option, with the core datacenter and cloud-based systems monitoring.N/A

    Prometheus

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/APrometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)Prometheus
    Editions & Modules
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    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)Prometheus
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)Prometheus
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    Open Source
    Chose Prometheus
    Both were present in the toolset. Splunk Enterprise was used in more of the log observability tool than the monitoring of the service. Prometheus was used mainly on the server and services monitoring and alerting capability used to have a stable production environment. …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)Prometheus
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and Prometheus
    Feature
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    6.1
    22 Ratings
    Prometheus
    -
    Ratings
    Application monitoring5.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring9.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities2.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console3.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools6.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications4.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding4.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring7.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery5.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)Prometheus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    7.5
    (36 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)