We performed a comparison between Grafana and OpenText SiteScope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"It is a stable solution."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"The tool has capabilities other than managing web-based applications, like URL Monitor and EPI Script. It is also easy to use the tool."
"It has multiple monitors that can be deployed OOTB, which includes basic system monitors for CPU, Disk, Memory, NIC's, etc."
"It's a very flexible product so you can run a script out of it, even straight out of the box."
"It's integrated with different monitoring tools, such as AppDynamics."
"Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"For the system environment, SiteScope can be useful."
"Simple deployment: The deployment uses protocols such as NetBios, SSH, WMI, SNMP, which means that any device with any of these protocols will be monitored."
"The most valuable feature of SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"It could be more reliable using a database repository instead of a log repository."
"Full application functionality available via the API. There are some functions you can perform managing monitors, that are only available through the UI."
"We'd like a uniform interface for monitoring our system, since that's the purpose of SiteScope."
"They should provide more templates for new vendor devices."
"We have four or five data centers around North America where we have it deployed into a single or a two-server primary backup type of deployment. All those are made available under a single GUI provided by Micro Focus that allows you to put them all together. A room for improvement would be an appliance or a server that would manage all of our other servers so that I don't have to remember to log on to all different servers and data centers. I could manage them from a single location."
"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."
"In terms of issues with Micro Focus SiteScope, some that we've run into were unintended, for example, extra executions of monitors and some false alerts when there were problems connecting to endpoints or there were issues with the application that sometimes resulted in false positives. We had a few issues with the way time zones were configured when the system time differed from the time indicated during the monitoring, but those were just little things that weren't too bad. As far as the limitations of Micro Focus SiteScope, the types of scripting files that can be executed are rather limited unless you go to some third-party plugins. These are the areas for improvement in the solution."
"The lack of an agent means that remote monitoring requires multiple firewall ports to be opened."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while OpenText SiteScope is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText SiteScope writes "Doesn't require much custom coding and can run on different platforms, but the types of scripting files you can execute on it are limited". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas OpenText SiteScope is most compared with SCOM, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and New Relic. See our Grafana vs. OpenText SiteScope report.
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