Dell CloudIQ vs Sematext Infrastructure Monitoring comparison

Sematext Monitoring is a full-stack IT infrastructure monitoring software that gives you real-time visibility across your infrastructure. Whether on-premise, in the cloud, or a mix of anything in between, Sematext can monitor your whole stack.

Monitor the status of your:

• Applications
• servers
• containers
• processes
• Inventory
• Events
• Databases
• and a whole lot more.

Cut down MTTR by spotting and troubleshooting infrastructure performance issues faster no matter whether they occur on-premise, in your cloud, or in hybrid environments.

Infrastructure Monitoring Benefits

• Resolve production issues fast and easily.
  Get a complete picture of your distributed applications from end-to-end, so you can spot bottlenecks, and resolve production issues as quickly as possible. Detect anomalies and received alerts for latencies, error rates, or throughput. Get support for fully distributed applications and transaction tracing. Understand true application architecture with real-time service maps.
  
  
• Streamline metrics and logs in one, unified view.
  Monitor and troubleshoot faster with a single dashboard that can include metrics and event logs for application and server logs, alerts, anomalies, and much more, so you can monitor and troubleshoot, and get to the root cause in minutes. Find similar patterns with built-in correlation.
  
  
• Alerting system that's got your back.
  Alert on metrics and logs. It's simple: run a query, save it as an alert query, optionally select additional notification hooks like Slack, PagerDuty, etc... Use query filters to narrow down on logs you really want to alert on – e.g. severity:ERROR. Use threshold-based alerts if you have specific thresholds and get notified when the number of logs hits the threshold. Use anomaly detection to be alerted on sudden abnormalities in your logs and let statistical algorithms find abnormal log counts.
  
  
• Simple agent installation, zero maintenance.
  Monitor your infrastructure and centralize all of your logs with a simple agent installation. Copy, paste, and you're done. Sematext now has your logs, is monitoring your infrastructure, and has set up alerts for you already.
  
  
• 100+ cloud-ready integrations
  It's easy to collect and analyze metrics and events across your entire stack with numerous integrations. Simply maintain a real-time view of your enterprise or cloud infrastructure while collecting and reporting metrics and events. Slice and dice by a number of context-aware filters.
  
  
• By DevOps, for DevOps.
  Custom Metrics? APIs? We’ve got 'em! Open HTTP APIs let you ship Custom Metrics from your apps. Capture and send app, business, and other event data. Use open-source metrics libraries for Java, Ruby, and Node.js, and automate alerts with APIs

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Just some of the things you can do with Sematext Synthetics

• Server monitoring
  • See CPU, memory, disk usage, IO, network, load, and other metrics
  • Filter using tags, hosts, disks, network interfaces, and more
  • Get the big picture with an aggregate top-down view of all your infrastructure
  • Get alerts on any metric and use visualizations for capacity planning
• Cloud & container monitoring
  • See container-specific metrics for CPU, memory, disk usage, IO, network, load, and much more
  • Correlate container metrics and logs for faster troubleshooting
  • Get logs parsed, structured, enriched, masked, and more for flexible reporting and fast search
• Database monitoring
  • Connection details (used connections, aborted clients…)
  • Threads, open files, cache usage
  • Traffic in and out of DB, queries/questions details, slow queries count, select/sort usage stats
  • Tables, handlers metrics
  • Detailed MyISAM and InnoDB engines stats
• Transaction tracing
  • Find slow database operations
  • View full SQL statements
  • See end-to-end HTTP transaction context, through multiple tiers, including full call traces
  • Get the top 10 operations by throughput, latency, or time consumed
  • Filter database operations by type
• Network monitoring
  • View your complete infrastructure as a dynamic network map
  • Perform network performance monitoring with real-time receive and transmit rates and ports used for communication
  • Explore multiple map views with zooming, panning, and filtering
  • Control monitored network interfaces and filter out uninteresting endpoints
• Application performance monitoring
  • Pinpoint the root causes of poor application performance with deep-dive analysis
  • Find the slow and suboptimal parts of your application
  • Trace requests across networks and apps all the way down to databases
  • Expose slow SQL statements
• And much, much more...

Where to go from here?

Sign up for a free trial and try it for yourself. No credit card needed. We offer both free and paid plans. Our commercial plan starts at $3.6/mo per host per day for 7-day retention and you can try it free for 14 days. The free plan includes max 5 free hosts for 30-minute retention.