We performed a comparison between Dynatrace 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.".NET core and Spring code level analysis helps with root cause analysis."
"We can see which step in a transaction is causing latency, right down to the particular Java class"
"The full stack - Everything from the browser, all the way back to the database, and being able to see everything, and really narrow in very quickly on what is the root cause."
"Mean time to recover (MTTR) has reduced significantly during major outages due to specific data pinpointed by DT applications."
"Great tool for deep diving into performance data and tracking issues through all the connected systems to better diagnose and pinpoint the real issues."
"The dashboard customization based on the performance metric requirement is one of the most exciting features."
"The dashboard gives us something to show managers and our business where the problems are. That's really been eye-opening for them. They can see, yes, this tool has been a good investment. They can see where the problems are and how we can take advantage of it for making those necessary corrections."
"The server monitoring is very accurate in this tool. We are able to prevent many critical Incidents."
"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."
"Being able to create your monitors for monitoring your internal URLs and databases and other things like that is valuable."
"For the system environment, SiteScope can be useful."
"It's integrated with different monitoring tools, such as AppDynamics."
"The product's ability to monitor systems and applications and send alerts and create support tickets are the most valuable features of the product."
"The stability of the Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope is good."
"It has multiple monitors that can be deployed OOTB, which includes basic system monitors for CPU, Disk, Memory, NIC's, etc."
"The tool has capabilities other than managing web-based applications, like URL Monitor and EPI Script. It is also easy to use the tool."
"I think scalability is what we're struggling with. I would say it's okay, but there's a little bit of room for improvement."
"This solution needs improvement in terms of automation."
"DevOps plugin monitoring tools need improvement."
"There continues to be some opportunity to expose the infrastructure from a broader reporting standpoint. Overall, the opportunity is in the reporting capability and the ability to more flexibly expose or pivot the data for deeper analysis. Oftentimes, the solution is good at looking narrowly at information, but when you want to broaden that perspective, that's where the challenges come in. At this point, it requires the export of data to external systems to do this."
"Hard to use for beginners, to setup and explore."
"If Dynatrace is capturing everything in your application, it has to "sense" that information, and that sensing needs sensors which we have to include in our applications. The more you apply sensors - the more details you want - the more you have to increase the level of sensing. If I increase the level of sensing, my application's performance goes down, because something is there that is, again and again, checking each and every thing in the application. So that load on the applications increases. So, many times my applications used to crash because Dynatrace was working on them. We had to remove some sensing; either we had to reduce the sensing or we had to remove Dynatrace immediately."
"I would love to see Dynatrace get more involved in the security realm. I get badgered by so many endpoint protection companies. It seems like a natural fit to me, that Dynatrace should be playing in that space."
"It's not really user friendly. You need to go through a certain type of training."
"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."
"It may lack some features other products in the category have like more detailed transaction tracking."
"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."
"It should improve its integrations with various tools, especially service management tools."
"The tool needs to support new technologies like Kubernetes. It also needs to improve scalability."
"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."
"They should provide more templates for new vendor devices."
"More out of the box Cloud integration and capabilities."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while OpenText SiteScope is ranked 28th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". 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". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas OpenText SiteScope is most compared with SCOM, AppDynamics, Prometheus, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Dynatrace vs. OpenText SiteScope report.
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Hello,
Just to add to some of the comments regarding dynaTrace. So far those are all correct. I just want to add, dynaTrace also has the capability to perform agent-less monitoring as well. Some of the things we used SiteScope for (url monitoring, log file monitoring, etc.) we were able to transition into dynaTrace allowing us to get rid of SiteScope altogether due to it's ability to develop custom plugins which allows you to really do a lot of extra things that aren't available out of the box which I take advantage of everyday.
Thank you very much to one and all.
Sorry, don't really have a lot of exposure to either of the products.
Mark,
Sitescope is a bottum up (technical) monitoring tool. It is agentless. Advantages: 1) with a user account/password you can monitor your systems so a fast realization of technical monitoring. 2) you don't have to install an agent (prevent the "not invented by us syndrome" most admins have 3) it provides out of the box monitors for different technologies. You don't have to develop scripts first to enable monitoring 4) it's a perfect tool for setting up performance tests fast, it integrates in Loadrunner (this means that doing analysis is not delayed by importing technical metrics from other parties) 5) you can work independant from other silo's during performance tests. 6) history of metrics. Disadvantage 1) If there is no connectivity between Sitescope and the monitoring object there is no data collected 2) it samples, just like any other monitoring tool and so you miss the reason of time outs.
dynaTrace: is a 3 rd gen diagnostic tool. It's approach is the end user experience (top down approach). So it measures each individual session of each individual end user across the chain and measures where the response times is consumed. From that point you can drill down into the application layer where Sitescope is not able to do any monitoring at all. Sitescope only reaches the OS and Middleware layers, not the application layer. By drill down I mean: into the application code. You know exactly which application code is due to latency, which database calls are executed (SQL query) how many times and how that is related to the overall response time. Since version 5.5 you could also hook up technical metrics like the Windows Resource Counters, Websphere PMI metrics etc. So there is some overlap with Sitescope. dynaTRace is used to deploy across your DTAP and provides one reference point: the end user. There is no fingerpointing/blame game anymore: it gives you 100% grip and control, also in (synmchronous) messaging environments like Tibco. Besides the diagnostic functionality it embodies the ultimate monitoring maturity stack (BAM, Passive Monitoring, Active Monitoring, Technical Monitoring, Logfile monitoring). Minimal instrumenting, it doesn't sample in contradiction to AppDynamics. Besides Java and .NET, an ADK is available to build a custom Agent. Also a z/OS mainframe agent is available. Since version 6.0 (latest version) you can also import Wireshark measurements. dynaTrace hooksup with Gomeze SaaS (Active Monitoring outside customer premises) and DC RUM (Passive monitioring on customer premises infra)
With dynaTrace you save a lot of money regarding the required test cycles to find the root cause. With Sitescope the risk is bigger
It depents on what you customer's demand is: 1) Do you want to monitor only? 2) Do you want to monitor and solve the problem? 3) Is it part of Continuous Delivery?
If 1) there are other alternatives available (Open Source Graphite)
If 2+3 ) dynaTrace
Hi,
SiteScope is an agentless Infrastructure monitoring tool. It has a wide range of monitoring capabilities including Server,DB’s,Middleware,Network and application’s as well. Its very easy to deploy & configure.
Dynatrace is more application level monitoring. Its an agent based solution for java & Net applications. Its able to monitor transactions at thread level with deep drill down capabilities.
The solutioning will be based on the monitoring requirements, scope, cost & scalability.
Thanks,
Raj
The solutions have different purposes. I think it's better to summary both of them.
The HP SiteScope is a tool to monitor infrastructure components without agents. It monitors availability and some performance metrics of infrastructure elements. The metrics can be visualized by service model, so you can see which components are being affected.
dynaTrace monitors the application performance through agents. Applications developed by Java, .NET and PHP and also mobile applications are instrumented by the agents and monitored automatically. The monitoring covers 100% (all) transactions, providing traceability and point the problem. dynaTrace accelerates the troubleshooting, monitors end user experience, increase the collaboration between teams (dev, QA, prod, architectures), monitors business transaction effetivelly and also monitors infrastructure elements.
Regards,
Monica