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."Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"We like the alert features."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The URL monitoring is excellent."
"VM monitoring is pretty good showing good visualizations of how VMs are operating within the context of all the VMs running on the same hypervisor."
"Being able to create your monitors for monitoring your internal URLs and databases and other things like that is valuable."
"Simplest tool for monitoring servers, web content, databases and other hardware. Its dashboard is really good."
"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 most valuable feature of SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring."
"The Monitor Templates functionality allowed us to spin up monitoring with .csv files pretty easily."
"The stability of the Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope is good."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"They need to offer better technical support, which, right now, is not helpful or responsive."
"It should improve its integrations with various tools, especially service management tools."
"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."
"We'd like a uniform interface for monitoring our system, since that's the purpose of SiteScope."
"You can use OpenText SiteScope for small or middle environments. But if you want to monitor a large environment, it is not scalable. If you can monitor a large environment with OpenText SiteScope, it can be a valuable product."
"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."
"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 tool needs to support new technologies like Kubernetes. It also needs to improve scalability."
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 Azure Monitor. See our Grafana vs. OpenText SiteScope report.
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