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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
April 2024
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  • "If you look into Riverbed, it's a licensing nightmare. You need to pay for every type of analysis... If you don't look into licensing, Riverbed and SolarWinds are pretty comparable. But if you look into licensing it would not be smart to go for either of them. On the pure, bare-metal basis, it's the same. But when you get the bare metal and a few basic licenses, then you need all those other licenses just to be sure that there's no issue... One of the great things about Skylight is you have them all, and you actually need them all."
  • "It's not for free, clearly. But on the other hand, it offers very interesting functionality. We pay around €100,000."
  • "Pricing is a little bit expensive."
  • "We understand there's a significant cost difference, but have yet to investigate fully."
  • "The pricing is cheaper than other competing products, which is better for our budgets."
  • "It provides value and the cost is not huge."
  • "The pricing of Accedian Skylight is really good. The sensors are low cost. Their model to analytics for sensors is by license, endpoint, or session. With the probes for their analytics, if they get deployed virtually, they are free. The licensing is only based on flows. So, you can effectively deploy probes everywhere in your network. Then, if you want to look at a specific type of traffic, you can enter into it with a very low cost license. You can just use things like spam ports, mirrors, TAPs, and aggregators to optimize what sort of traffic you send to these analysis tools. Then, if you want to start looking at more, you can up your licensed as you go. You are not getting forced into expensive appliances or subscription models."
  • "The price is competitive overall, depending on the type of customer."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Accedian Skylight?
    Top Answer:The feature I used to like the most was its ability to decode layer seven protocols, although this is becoming less useful now that encryption is so widespread.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Accedian Skylight?
    Top Answer:The solution was previously well-regarded, but after being acquired by Accedian, the prices have significantly increased. This has made it challenging to sell the product due to its high cost. It is… more »
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    What needs improvement with Accedian Skylight?
    Top Answer:There should be an option to update and upgrade the solution to the new version without having to re-buy it. I have clients switching to other solutions. The old solution is great, but if you change… more »
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    58th
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    Also Known As
    Accedian SkyLIGHT PVX, SkyLIGHT PVX, SecurActive, Performance Vision
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    Overview

    Accedian provides performance analytics and end user experience solutions for on-premise, cloud and hybrid IT infrastructures. Accedian SkylightTM delivers unified network and application performance monitoring (NAPM) visibility across the entire application and network chain, with best in class resolution and velocity. This enables Accedian customers to assure their business-critical digital infrastructure and unlock the full productivity of their users.

    Sematext Synthetics provides the ability to actively monitor APIs, Web URLs, websites, and user journeys/click flows from multiple locations around the globe. Synthetic monitoring helps you ensure the availability and performance of your APIs and websites. Synthetics will help you identify downtime and performance issues by simulating user requests and interactions with your web page.

    No agent installation is required and there is no need to change your application code.


    Sematext Synthetic Benefits

    • Fix performance issues before they affect your end users
      Synthetic monitoring allows you to simulate user interactions at different locations worldwide. Synthetic performance monitoring monitors all your APIs, web applications, and mobile apps, no matter how many users they are. With Sematext, you can customize Dashboards and Alerts to monitor critical infrastructure aspects and trigger them when they malfunction. This will help you spot problems before they arise.
    • Benchmark your website
      Synthetic monitoring solutions let you look at your APIs from different places during the day. Then you can use this data as a baseline for benchmarking since it helps you figure out what needs to be improved, and lets you compare your service to the competition.
    • Test your scaling capabilities
      A website and application are built to respond quickly to users, but your server needs to be ready when traffic spikes unexpectedly. You can run artificial tests to determine how your server will behave under load with synthetic performance monitoring. Once you have this data, you can decide what steps to take to scale gracefully.

    • Test new product features before launching
      If you're launching new features, synthetic monitoring lets you run a full test suite before releasing them during peak hours, which is a great tool to have. You'll be able to see how the application reacts under load and whether any of the recent changes will impact a 3rd party API you might use.

    • Monitor third-party APIs and critical business processes
      If you don't use any third-party tools in your business, you run into a number of problems related to their availability. You need to keep an eye on them and get an alert the second things start to slow down. Monitoring API metrics is not enough to ensure your users get the best experience possible. Make sure your application works as expected, including logging in, searching, and checkout.

    • Ensure SLA compliance
      Whatever side of the SLA you are on – the key is to make sure everyone in the contract adheres to the contract. To understand the performance limitations of your application and set realistic expectations, you should use synthetic monitoring tools if you're a service provider. Customers want to know that the vendor can fulfill his promises.

    • Reduce MTTR
      With synthetic monitoring software like Sematext Synthetics, you can lower your MTTR by sending out alerts before the issue becomes a problem. In addition to being notified sooner, you'll also learn what's causing the problem and how to fix it.

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    Just some of the things you can do with Sematext Synthetics

    • Monitor & track the availability & performance of APIs
    • Monitor SSL certificate expiration time
    • Monitor websites and track various web performance metrics like page load time, paint metrics, etc.
    • Monitor website uptime
    • Monitor individual resource performance in a website by domain, type, and response code
    • Create public status page showing the availability of your selected web services and share it with your customers
    • Identify slow resources
    • Monitor third-party resources performance
    • Investigate slow pages & identify bottlenecks using a waterfall chart
    • Create user journeys with custom assertions based on the content of the webpage
    • Collect and track custom metrics from your sites
    • Benchmark against competitors
    • Create custom dashboards and alerts based on gathered performance metrics
    • Debug downtime with end-to-end visibility of application performance
    • Get alerted when things fail via multiple alert channels like email, Slack, Pagerduty, webhooks, etc.
    • Monitor websites behind firewalls and on private networks with Private Locations
    • Check out the full product update.

    At Sematext, we’ve also had the need to monitor application availability. We use Synthetics actively to monitor our own applications and it has helped us uncover issues with our APIs on multiple occasions.

    Where to go from here?

    Sign up for a free trial and try it for yourself. Pricing starts at $2 per month for HTTP monitors and $7 per month for browser monitors. We have pay-as-you-go pricing if your usage changes or fixed plans if you can estimate your usage. 

    Sample Customers
    T-Systems, Thomson Reuters, Bordeaux Metropole, CGI, Citadelle Regional Hospital Center, Lorraine Institute of Oncology, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Groupe BPCE, Group S, Splitpoint, Horus-Net, Audatex, Indexis, Province de Liège, EASI, Spie Batignolles, Faymonville
    Access Intelligence Plc, Adore Beauty, Agmatix, alaTest Reviews, All Time Data Pvt., Appsari, Appwrite, ASK Staffing, Associated Company, Atlantic American Corp, Bata, Baťa, Binerals, BITTE KAI RAND, Bixlabs, Boost Insurance, Broadcom, BUFF Technologies LTD, ClariLab, Comelit Group S.p.A., CommIT, createME, Deepbluecompany, deeprojects, Depth-Sa, Diesel Laptops, DigiHaul, Digitaltentstudio, Doole Health, Dovetail Technologies Ltd, Ebctechnologies, ECB, Ekcsoft, Emento, Empact IT, Enhance-It, Ennomail, Enterprise Knowledge, ESCIO AS, Essential Assists, Evercoder Software SRL, Extendi srl, Ezgiant, Ezyhaul, Factinsect, Fenom Digital, Fino, fino, fino.team, Firespring, Fulcrum, General Authority for Statistics, GradGuard, Grovia, Health Catalyst, hkcac.io, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, InfoAsilo, Information Customer Service My Account Navgrahaa Jewels, Inpla, Ipdetect, Isovist, isovist.net.au, iVendi Limited, Ivinco, Jan Ptáček, Kal-It, Leen151, Macrovo, MediaLab 3D Solutions, Metabolic Living, Mobizcorp GmbH, Moneri, Moqups, Morizon-Gratka, Morrison Agency, Mrcall, NETIM, New Media Services, Nextgenins, NIUKS, Nordic, Nordic Naturals, North Star Network, Noveo Group, Novopayment, ObjectifSEO, Pharmacies BENU SA, Planis, Pulsar Platform, QIMA, QL Gaming Group, RedINTER, RedINTER Colombia, Rudderstack, SeatGeek, Section, Sematext Group Inc, SHIFT Connect, Solidstudio, Sparkle Place, Spineor, Spot Metrics, Stanford University, SteelEye, T P EQUIPMENT LEASING, TalentPools, Taroko, Teams, Termly, The Institute of Internal Auditors, Thorborn, Treatwell, Universal Equations, Upc Romania Bucuresti E320 Ra7, Upmenu, Velocitor Solutions, vendnovation, Verztec Consulting, Vuelio, Wahoo Fitness, Warehaus, Wealthica, Weareyourhero, wirtschaftsbildung.ch, Workframe, Workmade, Zenus Bank
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Healthcare Company16%
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Local Government11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company36%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Government7%
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    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business46%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise32%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Accedian Skylight is ranked 15th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 23 reviews while Sematext Synthetics is ranked 58th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Accedian Skylight is rated 9.0, while Sematext Synthetics is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Accedian Skylight writes "Highly scalable, responsive support, but lacking new features". On the other hand, Accedian Skylight is most compared with ThousandEyes, SolarWinds NPM, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, Dynatrace and Zabbix, whereas Sematext Synthetics is most compared with Datadog and Honeycomb.io.

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