We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Monitor and BMC TrueSight Operations Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that BMC Helix Monitor is an agentless tool, because of which you don't need to deploy agents on each and every system in your IT environment."
"It is evolving more and more into artificial intelligence."
"The service operations monitoring features are valuable."
"What I like best about BMC TrueSight Operations Management is that it allows you to do granular monitoring and improves VM load."
"The most valuable features of the solution are alert management, alert generation, and event management."
"I like the deep-dive detail and end-user metrics data. The synthetic monitor is the best one. The best point of the new one is that there's no need for configuration. You can inject the Java script and start to change major developments in the application. This is a good approach, and we received all the data using this."
"We can verify uptimes as another source of keeping devices in compliance."
"Signature baselines, which have allowed us to fine tune many of our events and significantly reduce the number of events generated."
"I like the event management part."
"The ability to pull hosts together to show what processes are running, so it can be used for change management."
"The event management tool builds correlation logic and protection algorithms into a field of events that is valuable when a data center goes down."
"The initial setup of the solution is complex."
"The solution's GUI and some patching-related information are areas with shortcomings where enhancements are needed, though I believe they are areas that fall under BMC's roadmap for the future."
"The product must provide more information and dashboards."
"The one piece that I would love to see is a general-purpose, configurable agent which would be a framework that you can deploy on anything, whether it be Java or anything else. It would allow you to easily deploy it on a platform that they support."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could improve the reporting."
"This solution is lacking in application monitoring features. Technical support for this solution also needs improvement, particularly in product knowledge and response time."
"One of the things that the TrueSight environment is missing is some of the HA abilities. The data collection server called the ISM doesn't really have the HA functionality or workload balancing. It was missing from the previous product as well. It's missing redundancy."
"Specifically around application performance monitoring, BMC is definitely not the market leader. The Dynatraces, the New Relics and the like are more of the market leaders in that space. I would like to see them grow that space a little bit more aggressively. It has not really been their bread and butter."
"I would like them to improve the deep-dive details, tracing, and data agents in this product. We have EUEM, an end-user experience monitoring appliance. This one's quicker than the current one, and reporting side and filtration side are very bad. There are many details we look at and explain what we receive information in the current one, but we cannot have historical data like we do with EUEM. We cannot have a powerful point to look for specific traffic from a specific application and a specific browser. We don't have it in the new one. The current BMC also needs to add the thing that control versions."
"The sizing (which is difficult), the maintenance of it and the upgrade paths. This is a difficult area which is not easy to cover, as every client has a different approach of implementing the product."
"The pricing could be better."
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BMC Helix Monitor is ranked 6th in Event Monitoring with 3 reviews while BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 1st in Event Monitoring with 48 reviews. BMC Helix Monitor is rated 9.6, while BMC TrueSight Operations Management is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC Helix Monitor writes "The product is a top-rated monitoring tool, but it needs to improve its pricing and ease of use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". BMC Helix Monitor is most compared with OpsRamp, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and OpenText Operations Bridge, whereas BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. See our BMC Helix Monitor vs. BMC TrueSight Operations Management report.
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