We performed a comparison between OpenText SiteScope and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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 product's ability to monitor systems and applications and send alerts and create support tickets are the most valuable features of the product."
"The Monitor Templates functionality allowed us to spin up monitoring with .csv files pretty easily."
"It has multiple monitors that can be deployed OOTB, which includes basic system monitors for CPU, Disk, Memory, NIC's, etc."
"Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"It can monitor over a 100 technologies with built-in solution templates."
"It's easy to template standard monitoring configurations, and automate monitoring configuration."
"Has a simple setup. It can be up and running within hours."
"Being able to create your monitors for monitoring your internal URLs and databases and other things like that is valuable."
"Identifying the problem statement is easy."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its powerful monitoring capabilities."
"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"This product can monitor application environments no matter where they reside and provides capabilities for deep insight into infrastructure."
"Manage Groups: The capability to group appropriate devices gives better visibility of sites, categories, or critical regions. The same can be used to represent a dashboard for higher management."
"Direct integration with an SMS gateway for sending critical alerts to the support SME. This will help customer investing in third party middleware solutions for SMS."
"The tool needs to support new technologies like Kubernetes. It also needs to improve scalability."
"More out of the box Cloud integration and capabilities."
"The graphs and dashboard in the solution are areas that need improvement."
"It may lack some features other products in the category have like more detailed transaction tracking."
"Sometimes in a huge environment, I think the documentation does not provide the required calculations so you can't know what the required set up should be. You need to test."
"It should improve its integrations with various tools, especially service management tools."
"The lack of an agent means that remote monitoring requires multiple firewall ports to be opened."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."
"The product needs to reduce its price."
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OpenText SiteScope is ranked 28th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". OpenText SiteScope is most compared with SCOM, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI. See our OpenText SiteScope vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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