Microsoft has archived the SCOM Managed Instance documentation. The overview page now says the service is "no longer in support" and recommends Azure Monitor or System Center Operations Manager instead, depending on your requirements:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/scom-manage-instance/overview
A few practical points for anyone affected:
- If you were on MI, on-prem SCOM is the shorter path back. Same engine, same agent-based management packs, so your packs, overrides and tuning carry over.
- Azure Monitor makes sense if your estate has genuinely moved to Azure, but there is no management pack import on that side. If you're monitoring Windows servers, SQL, IIS, AD and DNS on your own hardware, that's a rebuild.
- SCOM 2025 is in mainstream support until January 2030, with extended support to January 2035. For on-prem and hybrid estates, the "SCOM is going away" question looks fairly settled.
Was anyone here actually running MI in production? Curious where people are moving to.
Disclosure: I run SCOM2K7 (we make SCOM tools). I wrote a longer version on our blog; link in the first comment.
Source: r/scom · by /u/Total_Rip_3573