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    GitLab

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. Differentiators, as described by Gitlab: Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can…

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    per month per user

    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
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    GitLabMicrosoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    Editions & Modules
    GitLab Essential
    $0
    per month per user
    GitLab Premium
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
    $99
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitLabMicrosoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    83%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of GitLab and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    Feature
    GitLab
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    6.1
    22 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings5.020 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings2.020 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings3.019 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings6.017 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings4.020 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings4.018 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.020 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings5.018 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    GitLabMicrosoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (142 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GitLabMicrosoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GitLab
    GitLab is good if you work a lot with code and do complex repository actions. It gives you a very good overview of what were the states of your branches and the files in them at different stages in time. It's also way easier and more efficient to write pipelines for CI\CD. It's easier to read and it's easier to write them. It takes fewer clicks to achieve the same things with GitLab than it does for competitor products.
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    Microsoft
    More appropriate for:
    • Pure Microsoft ecosystem environments (Windows Server and SQL server) and the most common Linux and UNIX platforms.
    • Environments where cost is less of a factor than settling on a single platform for monitoring
    • Environments where the administrators are familiar with the setup and installation of SCOM.
    Less appropriate for:
    • Pure UNIX/Linux shops, especially versions not supported out of the box by SCOM.
    • Shops that cannot afford the engagement to setup/configure and maintain on a continuous basis.
    • Shops that cannot dedicate personnel to the care and feeding of SCOM, especially when supporting larger environments.
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    Pros
    GitLab
    • GitLab excels in managing code versions, allowing easy tracking of changes, branch management, and merging contributions.
    • It helps maintain code stability and reliability, saving time and effort in the development or research workflow.
    • Powerful code review features, enabling collaboration and feedback among team members.
    • Robust project management features, including issue tracking, kanban boards, and milestones.
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    Microsoft
    • Allows us to visualize our systems in a single interface and see the status of health as well as relevant performance metrics.
    • A flexible and powerful interface with active alerting covering domain controllers, SQL servers, etc...
    • Allows you to customize your views and workspaces for specific tasks and needs.
    • Reporting is powerful and flexible.
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    Cons
    GitLab
    • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
    • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
    • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
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    Microsoft
    • One of the biggest drawbacks to SCOM is the sheer scope and complexity of the system. This can be a pro and a con. The system is very customizable, what you put into it is what you'll get out of it. That said, the learning curve is fairly steep. An organization needs to be committed to putting time and resources into SCOM to get the most out of it. I've heard stories from colleagues of several different companies that invested in SCOM and then abandoned it due to the excessive time and care required.
    • SCOM is expensive. Not only is the enterprise licensing costly, SCOM requires it's own servers, operational and warehouse databases to be maintained.
    • The OOB SCOM reports are a bit clunky and feel outdated.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GitLab
    I really feel the platform has matured quite faster than others, and it is always at the top of its game compared to the different vendors like GitHub, Azure pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins. Since it provides, agents, CI/CD, repository hosting, Secrets management, user management, and Single Sign on; among other features
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
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    Usability
    GitLab
    I find it easy to use, I haven't had to do the integration work, so that's why it is a 9/10, cause I can't speak to how easy that part was or the initial set up, but day to day use is great!
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    Microsoft
    Ease of Use and user friendly dashboard
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    Reliability and Availability
    GitLab
    I've never had experienced outages from GItlab itself, but regarding the code I have deployed to Gitlab, the history helps a lot to trace the cause of the issue or performing a rollback to go back to a working version
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    Microsoft
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    Performance
    GitLab
    GItlab reponsiveness is amazing, has never left me IDLE. I've never had issues even with complex projects. I have not experienced any issues when integrating it with agents for example or SSO
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    Microsoft
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    Support Rating
    GitLab
    At this point, I do not have much experience with Gitlab support as I have never had to engage them. They have documentation that is helpful, not quite as extensive as other documentation, but helpful nonetheless. They also seem to be relatively responsive on social media platforms (twitter) and really thrived when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    Hard to get support. The product is not being actively developed anymore, so it is hard to get new features for the product.
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    Implementation Rating
    GitLab
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    Microsoft
    Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
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    Alternatives Considered
    GitLab
    Gitlab seems more cutting-edge than GitHub; however, its AI tools are not yet as mature as those of CoPilot. It feels like the next-generation product, so as we selected a tool for our startup, we decided to invest in the disruptor in the space. While there are fewer out-of-the-box templates for Gitlab, we have never discovered a lack of feature parity.
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    Microsoft
    We used Altiris and WSUS and in the beginning Altiris had the better admin interface than SCOM, but it is no longer the case as SCOM has refined their admin interface. Altiris still has better and more robust group assignments for management roles and those two other tools can better manage non Windows OS devices than SCOM but for a large enterprise Windows shop, if you can afford it, SCOM is the way to go.
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    Scalability
    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    Microsoft
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    Return on Investment
    GitLab
    • GitLab cut down our spent on container, package and infrastructure registry
    • Best thing is we can now have everything in single platform which cost effective too
    • Quality of support is really good and they do have emergency support team as well which is great
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    Microsoft
    • It has allowed us to provide an Enterprise Event/Alert management solution to the Global company
    • It has taken a long time to get it to provide valuable alerts and information, lots of user resources and investment.
    • It assists with 24/7 monitoring and out of hours support
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