MicrosoftThose calculations are a little sus, we've seen much higher density of on-prem VM hosting than Microsoft estimates (a single Datacenter license becomes super cost effective in those cases). That said, SCOM MI is a great product, orders of magnitude better than the native Azure Monitoring which is a confusing mess with difficult to apply organization-level monitoring policies, tons of setup work (unbelievable it's more time consuming to set up than SCOM), and just an inferior monitoring and alerting experience all around. It really shows how amazing of a product SCOM was that after about ten years of Microsoft barely investing in it, it's so much better than the native cloud replacement of Log Analytics / Azure Monitoring.
Anyway, all that said, I like how Microsoft is creating more cost effective MLs for the MI version. Hopefully Microsoft further reduces infrastructure hosting cost. I am just not seeing the same numbers as in this table. Right now SCOM MI comes out about cost neutral to a little more expensive until you get super high scaling.
Aleksander PawlakThat would be a great idea if Microsoft created a MSP licensing program for SCOM. I still believe SCOM is the best monitoring product out there, having used many different other products from Azure Monitoring to Kaseya to Datto to Ninja. SCOM is just better. If they made something that had better small size scale for smaller orgs, they could own the monitoring market. The cloud monitoring capabilities of SCOM are good and cost effective. With lower ML cost, tighter integration with the few areas where Azure Monitoring has good use cases (log parsing), it could be an absolutely killer product.
