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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BigPanda

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ABigPanda is designed to enable enterprise IT to intelligently automate and scale service operations to meet the complex demands of the modern datacenter. The vendor says their algorithmic service operations platform turns IT noise from fragmented clouds, teams, applications and monitoring tools into actionable insights to speed the resolution of IT incidents. Customers include Intel, Workday, News Corp, Macy’s and Cisco.N/A

    PagerDuty

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) provides digital operations management. Serving organizations of all sizes, PagerDuty aims to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time.

    $25

    per month per user

    Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASplunk supports IT operations analytics with the Splunk IT Service Intelligence premium offering, a software application available to subscribers to Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise log analytics and SIEM platforms.N/A
    Pricing
    BigPandaPagerDutySplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
    Editions & Modules
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    Professional
    $25
    per month per user
    Business
    $49
    per month per user
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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    BigPandaPagerDutySplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
    Considered Multiple Products
    BigPanda
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    PagerDuty
    Chose PagerDuty
    When we selected PagerDuty, we evaluated a few other solutions including Moogsoft, BigPanda, VictorOps and Splunk Enterprise. We decided on PagerDuty specifically for the automated on-call escalation capabilities. At the time when we subscribed to PagerDuty, event management …
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    Chose PagerDuty
    BigPanda is not as easy to use as PagerDuty. The alerting in PagerDuty is clean and neat compared to BigPanda.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    PagerDuty has matched our expectations so far in terms of the quality and quantity of functionalities offered to manage incidents effectively. Other tools being considered during the purchase phase were quite expensive and failed to offer the features we required. They had …
    Incentivized
    Cisco
    Chose Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
    There are many products in the market like ServiceNow, Moogsoft and BigPanda which have similar capabilities as of Splunk however Splunk is a mature product and they keep evolving its benefits and capabilities. Since Splunk came into the market with its unique capabilities much …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
    Integration is much easier with Splunk. The dashboards and content packs are given, with minor work they can be customized for different integrations. Splunk has a big community of support. We would spend much longer time and money using other tools given that in eight months' …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
    Splunk ITSI provides a holistic methodology for collecting and utilizing telemetry data that most other "basic" monitoring technologies and products in this space do not. By allowing us to model our ecosystem's components and services, Splunk ITSI observes and reports at a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
    We selected ITSI to replace TrueSight as a legacy manager of managers. Used in tandem with the perks of core Splunk and access to logs, metrics, and performance data all in one location, it allows teams to pivot to keeping an eye on rolled-up service health and expose that to …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    User Ratings
    BigPandaPagerDutySplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
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    9.0
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    8.6
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    BigPandaPagerDutySplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BigPanda
    If the organization has a proper CMDB asset record then BigPanda features can be utilized to their true potential as it has alert correlation capability. The alert can be redirected to the proper support team using the auto-share feature. This wouldn't be the case where asset records are not updated and the Operations have to manually assign the alerts to support groups.
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    PagerDuty
    To be sincere, PagerDuty is a powerful, intelligent, and dependable on-call and incident management tool that provides amazing solutions to our company. Therefore, if someone is looking for reliability and accuracy in incident management, I will not hesitate to recommend PagerDuty. It is easy to use, and it will give you value for money.
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    Cisco
    Splunk ITSI is a great tool (and toolbox) for combining together numerous and varied monitoring regimes to bring more holistic analysis and reduce alert fatigue. By leveraging the Splunk ITSI service and KPI modeling regime, ecosystem telemetry can be turned into a more reliable, clearer, high-level perspective on the current state of your components and services.
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    Pros
    BigPanda
    • Alert correlation feature helps in grouping similar alerts together
    • Alert Enrichment to enhance the data after it arrives on the tool
    • Integration with multiple tools
    • The console is very user friendly and provides ease of administration
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    PagerDuty
    • PagerDuty sends the alerts set on high severity incidents on time and never misses any single instance.
    • PagerDuty help to send alert to mobile calls and Team channel for outage.
    • PagerDuty also resolves some of the high severity incidents as part of self healing mechanism.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    • Monitor hundreds of IT services by continuously tracking thousands of KPIs in a scalable way.
    • Quickly identify problem areas by a combination of default visualizations and ability to create custom dashboards.
    • Extremely configurable to effectively monitor nearly any KPI imaginable from Splunk.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    BigPanda
    • Tool should have a feature to query the data
    • The dashboard feature needs improvement
    • It should have a dark mode
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    PagerDuty
    • When I open PagerDuty the page does look a little cluttered or busy.
    • It would be nice to go to the page with clear and straightforward instructions on what I must address.
    • Ability to change the color background.
    • Add a timer and alarms for tasks that need completed.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    • ITSI really needs a robust splunk log ingestion infrastructure at its core
    • ITSI requires a great engineering team to build out the automated discovery and topology
    • Unless you use an API to build the topology, the view can quickly become static
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BigPanda
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    PagerDuty
    They have been rock solid for us thus far and are not very expensive and to be honest no time to evaluate other software at this point.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    We have replaced our monitoring platform with Splunk & ITSI, and with the success, it's seen at our organization thus far we would be hard-pressed to pivot to another tool. Frankly, our business partners and application teams love Splunk & ITSI.
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    Usability
    BigPanda
    No answers on this topic
    PagerDuty
    The UI is more complex than I would like. Part of the challenge is that most users use PagerDuty infrequently; I don't remember how I changed a policy last time. Another part of the challenge is that some users expect alerting to be a trivial feature, and are reluctant to invest any time in reading the documentation.
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    Cisco
    Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) is a platform with extended functionality and provides various functionalities which can be utilized to improve the efficiency and accuracy in analyzing the data and detecting the attacks.
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    Support Rating
    BigPanda
    No answers on this topic
    PagerDuty
    PagerDuty is reliable and easy to set up. It gives an effective way to notify the team about critical incidents which results in a faster turnaround time on issues. users can customize their alerts rules based on their preferences. Overall it's effective and easy to use which adds great business value.
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    Cisco
    During POC, pre-planning, and implementation, we have had interactions with numerous folks at Splunk. Everyone from sales & engineering to markets analysts to specific IT component SMEs, and a small professional services engagement to get started. They have all been exceptionally helpful and go above and beyond the call of duty. They actively reach out to ensure success is being realized and find ways to help proactively, instead of having to simply open support cases with the vendor.
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    Implementation Rating
    BigPanda
    No answers on this topic
    PagerDuty
    When I setup notifications to PD thru the Python API I was impressed with the ease with which I could set up the software/service.
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    Cisco
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    Alternatives Considered
    BigPanda
    TrueSight didn't provide many customization options. The features provided were primitive as compared to BigPanda. TrueSight was being used just for alert visibility and assignment to a proper support group from a single console. Although Moogsoft had similar features as compared to BigPanda, the user administration and ease of use were a bit complicated. BigPanda provides a much simpler user interface.
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    PagerDuty
    OpsGenie was useful, mainly for teams already using Atlassian tools, and xMatters was good for handling team communication during incidents, but PagerDuty felt more complete for managing the full incident process in one place. We went with PagerDuty because it manages alerts, escalations, and on-call duties in a more organized and dependable way, which fits better with how our teams work daily.
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    Cisco
    Splunk has raised itself as a platform not just as a tool unlike other products in the market. If I talk about Moogsoft it also has similar capabilities but Splunk ITSI has more visibility and its GUI is making a different impact on the users. ServiceNow and Splunk are equally capable products however Splunk seems to have more tech-savvy people tools than ServiceNow.
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    Return on Investment
    BigPanda
    • BIgPanda is very easy to implement and use
    • Better than the previous tool, provides more functionality
    • BIgPanda's alert enrichment feature very helpful
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    PagerDuty
    • Allow our service to be available 24/7 with minimal downtime, improving customer experience
    • Monitor incidents and allow us to customize/schedule alert notifications, making engineers' jobs easier and preventing turnover
    • Prevent SEVs that could deteriorate, bring down our service, and cost us millions of dollars from loss in bookings
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    • Splunk ITSI has reduced the number of alerts exposed to our Network Operations Center by 100x while increasing the context around outages.
    • Splunk ITSI has increased the accuracy of our incident detection by leveraging the Event Analytics system to weigh the behavior of the many characteristics of each component together instead of independently.
    • Splunk ITSI has reduced our incident MTTR (mean time to restore) by detecting issues faster, presenting them more clearly, and surfacing the salient details about the underlying issue.
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    Screenshot of Similar Incidents [Apple iPad], Open Incidents [iPhone 8], On-Call Schedule Menu [Apple Watch])Screenshot of the Machine Learning with Technical Service Dependencies, used to better understand related incidents.Screenshot of a glimpse of service health and team performance via PagerDuty’s Intelligent Dashboards.