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."It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The solution can scale well."
"The product's readymade templates are perfect. It supports us a lot when we don't have much experience with the product. The templates offers us direction to proceed."
"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."
"There's no agent you need installed on the servers. In our environment, we have some servers out of our control so we cannot manage them. We use SiteScope to monitor the availability, the resources on the servers, etc. This allows us to do this job without installing agents so there's no need to take care of anything on the server."
"The URL monitoring is excellent."
"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."
"Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"SiteScope has built-in flat file DB, hence it removes the dependency of an external DB for higher stability."
"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."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"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."
"The graphs and dashboard in the solution are areas that need improvement."
"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."
"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."
"Direct integration with an SMS gateway for sending critical alerts to the support SME. This will help customer investing in third party middleware solutions for SMS."
"It should improve its integrations with various tools, especially service management tools."
"Full application functionality available via the API. There are some functions you can perform managing monitors, that are only available through the UI."
"The lack of an agent means that remote monitoring requires multiple firewall ports to be opened."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 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 Dynatrace, SCOM, AppDynamics and Prometheus. See our Grafana vs. OpenText SiteScope report.
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