Are you planning to move to Azure but don’t want to lose the monitoring capabilities and experience you’ve had for years with SCOM? Now, you have the option to achieve this with Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance, commonly referred to as SCOM MI.
While Azure Monitor offers several advanced features for monitoring resources and services, monitoring hybrid environments—including both cloud and on-premises resources—can be tricky. SCOM MI bridges this gap during your migration to Azure, allowing you to use both official and custom management packs developed by you or third parties. Through the Azure Portal and Azure Monitor UI, you can manage your SCOM environment alongside the rest of your Azure Monitor configuration and monitoring tasks.
SCOM MI not only transfers your existing functionalities and capabilities to the cloud but also leverages cloud resource management for your SCOM environment. What does this mean? SCOM requires resources for its roles, such as Management Servers and SQL Databases, which need maintenance, updates, tuning, and scaling. While you still have some responsibilities for the system, managing SQL (SQL Managed Instance), and updating both SCOM MI and SQL are made much easier and can be automated if needed. Scalability is no longer an issue either—scaling up or out is just a click away, whereas on-premises scaling would take much longer.
What about dashboards? SCOM MI provides connections to Azure Managed Grafana and Log Analytics. While you can still use the SCOM Console and OperationsManager database, most data is replicated to a Log Analytics workspace. This allows you to use Grafana (either Azure Managed Grafana or on-premises), KQL-based visualizations, or third-party solutions like SquaredUp.
One of the most valuable aspects of SCOM MI is its reliability and availability. SCOM traditionally runs on heavy infrastructure and requires very low latency between servers and databases, making it expensive and challenging to maintain a reliable, high-availability setup. With Azure’s high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities, SCOM MI ensures consistent monitoring even during local outages.
By combining the familiar capabilities of SCOM with the advantages of Azure’s cloud services, SCOM MI offers a powerful solution for hybrid environment monitoring. TopQore’s expertise and know-how in both areas can guide you in your transition, helping you maximize the benefits of this integration.