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."We like the alert features."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The solution can scale well."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"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."
"It's easy to template standard monitoring configurations, and automate monitoring configuration."
"Our experiences with Micro Focus SiteScope have been mostly positive as we can easily work with multiple monitors and different types of monitors pretty quickly. There are a lot of out-of-the-box solutions for us through Micro Focus SiteScope, so we don't have to do that much custom coding for the vast majority of requests that we get for monitoring. There are some limitations that we've run into and some problems every once in a while, but they've been relatively minor."
"The Monitor Templates functionality allowed us to spin up monitoring with .csv files pretty easily."
"For the system environment, SiteScope can be useful."
"Simplest tool for monitoring servers, web content, databases and other hardware. Its dashboard is really good."
"The URL monitoring is excellent."
"Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"The stability of the Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope is good."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"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."
"Full application functionality available via the API. There are some functions you can perform managing monitors, that are only available through the UI."
"More out of the box Cloud integration and capabilities."
"They should provide more templates for new vendor devices."
"It could be more reliable using a database repository instead of a log repository."
"The graphs and dashboard in the solution are areas that need improvement."
"The lack of an agent means that remote monitoring requires multiple firewall ports to be opened."
"It may lack some features other products in the category have like more detailed transaction tracking."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while OpenText SiteScope is ranked 28th 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, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas OpenText SiteScope is most compared with SCOM, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Elastic Observability. See our Grafana vs. OpenText SiteScope report.
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