We performed a comparison between Datadog 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."We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"The service catalog helped improve our organization by giving a good view of the flow for our microservices applications."
"The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"SiteScope has built-in flat file DB, hence it removes the dependency of an external DB for higher stability."
"The most valuable feature of OpenText SiteScope is that it is easy to manage and user-friendly."
"It's easy to template standard monitoring configurations, and automate monitoring configuration."
"The stability of the Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope is good."
"Has a simple setup. It can be up and running within hours."
"The product's readymade templates are perfect. It supports us a lot when we don't have much experience with the product. The templates offers us direction to proceed."
"For the system environment, SiteScope can be useful."
"The URL monitoring is excellent."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"It does not have the best interface."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
"It can have an artificial intelligence component. Even though I can seamlessly look at end-to-end security, it would be better to have alerts and notifications powered by an AI engine. I am not sure if they have an AI component. We have not reached out to them or looked at it, but this is something that I keep on talking about within our company in terms of features. Such a feature would be good to have, and it would further optimize my Security Ops team's abilities."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"It could be more reliable using a database repository instead of a log repository."
"The tool needs to support new technologies like Kubernetes. It also needs to improve scalability."
"They have not kept up with browser security requirements or advances in GUIs, they switched to a corruptible database architecture instead of text config files."
"They should provide more templates for new vendor devices."
"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."
"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."
"I would be very interested in having transaction traceability included in the product, to give us a better view of what is really going wrong in a particular method and action."
"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."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while OpenText SiteScope is ranked 28th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". 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". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas OpenText SiteScope is most compared with SCOM, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Datadog vs. OpenText SiteScope report.
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