We performed a comparison between OpenText SiteScope and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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."Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"The Monitor Templates functionality allowed us to spin up monitoring with .csv files pretty easily."
"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 tool has capabilities other than managing web-based applications, like URL Monitor and EPI Script. It is also easy to use the tool."
"Simple deployment: The deployment uses protocols such as NetBios, SSH, WMI, SNMP, which means that any device with any of these protocols will be monitored."
"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."
"It's integrated with different monitoring tools, such as AppDynamics."
"This product can monitor application environments no matter where they reside and provides capabilities for deep insight into infrastructure."
"The solution is end-to-end from the network and the application to the processes. Everything about the enterprise infrastructure is being covered by the solution. It's easy to use and easy to navigate and one of the leaders among monitoring solutions."
"Manage Groups: The capability to group appropriate devices gives better visibility of sites, categories, or critical regions. The same can be used to represent a dashboard for higher management."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its powerful monitoring capabilities."
"The solution can be deployed quickly."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"Full application functionality available via the API. There are some functions you can perform managing monitors, that are only available through the UI."
"They need to offer better technical support, which, right now, is not helpful or responsive."
"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."
"The lack of an agent means that remote monitoring requires multiple firewall ports to be opened."
"We'd like a uniform interface for monitoring our system, since that's the purpose of SiteScope."
"They should provide more templates for new vendor devices."
"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."
"More out of the box Cloud integration and capabilities."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"SAM's software-defined network monitoring capability is also low and could be improved."
"It should also be easier to upgrade SolarWinds. AppDynamics is harder to deploy but easier to upgrade. So AppDynamics takes a lot of time and effort to install, but you can upgrade it in minutes. SolarWinds is the opposite. It's easy to deploy, but upgrades take forever. To date, nobody can complete it on time, so the production environment is sitting idle."
"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."
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OpenText SiteScope is ranked 28th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". OpenText SiteScope is most compared with Dynatrace, SCOM, AppDynamics, Prometheus and BMC TrueSight Operations Management, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery. See our OpenText SiteScope vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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