Compare SiteScope vs. Wavefront by VMware
SiteScope is ranked 19th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 4 reviews while Wavefront by VMware is ranked 8th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 6 reviews. SiteScope is rated 7.6, while Wavefront by VMware is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of SiteScope writes "System resource monitoring that generates automated alerts and support tickets". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wavefront by VMware writes "Simplifies troubleshooting by identifying trends from different data sources". SiteScope is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics and Splunk, whereas Wavefront by VMware is most compared with Datadog, AppDynamics and Dynatrace. See our SiteScope vs. Wavefront by VMware report.
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The product's ability to monitor systems and applications and send alerts and create support tickets are the most valuable features of the product. 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 Monitor Templates functionality allowed us to spin up monitoring with .csv files pretty easily. SiteScope has built-in flat file DB, hence it removes the dependency of an external DB for higher stability. Has a simple setup. It can be up and running within hours. It can monitor over a 100 technologies with built-in solution templates. | No issues with stability. The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation. People are very pleased with the implementation. The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities. This solution makes it a lot easier to figure out trends within very different data sources, which makes it easy to see why something is misbehaving. This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private. |
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It may lack some features other products in the category have like more detailed transaction tracking. Sometimes in a huge environment, I think the documentation does not provide the required calculations so you can't know what the required set up should be. You need to test. 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 could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality. They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us. The implementation is a long process that should be improved. In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get. I would like to see more out-of-the-box dashboards for in-depth application monitoring of standard products that are out there. I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack. |
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You have to pay for their "solution templates". Other tools do not charge you for knowledge-based monitoring bundles. SiteScope licensing can be node based-or monitor-based. I would recommend for node-based licensing. | Different locations require different setups. In your terms, around 300 to around 400K USD. Educational pricing is available for this solution. We were given a year's worth of service. It was included within our ELA. We were trying to do a proof of concept, which is almost over now. |
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| Micro Focus SiteScope, HPE SiteScope | Wavefront |
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| Micro Focus | VMware |
Overview | |
| SiteScope is an agentless application monitoring software that provides heterogeneous and hybrid support, quick time to value, and ease of installation, configuration, and use. | Wavefront is a metrics-driven analytics platform. DevOps, TechOps and developer teams are using Wavefront to monitor their cloud-native applications and infrastructure at unprecedented scale. Key Wavefront differentiators include:
Thousands of developers and DevOps engineers at use the Wavefront platform daily, in real-time, across hundreds of dashboards and alerts based on trillions of data points. |
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Learn more about SiteScope | Learn more about Wavefront by VMware |
Sample Customers | |
| Vodafone Ireland, Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank | Box, Intuit, Workday, Groupon, British Gas, SpaceApe, Marketo, DoordDash, Lyft |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm29% Comms Service Provider29% Software R&D Company14% Recruiting/Hr Firm14% Software R&D Company28% Comms Service Provider15% Government13% Manufacturing Company6% | Software R&D Company39% Retailer13% Comms Service Provider8% Media Company4% |
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