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    blackfire.io

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ABlackfire.io is designed to empower PHP developers to continuously verify and improve their app’s performance in development, testing, staging and production. It makes it possible to drill down to function/method call level to understand and fix performance bottlenecks. The vendor says its wide variety of automation options makes it a breeze to add it to a development and testing workflow. The Blackfire Player, an Open Source Web Crawling, Web Tester, and Web…N/A

    OpenText SiteScope

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/AOpenText's SiteScope is an agentless application performance monitoring tool with hybrid support across a variety of systems and vendors. Sitescope also offers automated workflow and incident identification and remediation capabilities, and rapid installation-to-monitoring processes.N/A
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    blackfire.ioOpenText SiteScope
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    blackfire.ioOpenText SiteScope
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Features
    blackfire.ioOpenText SiteScope
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of blackfire.io and OpenText SiteScope
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    Ratings
    OpenText SiteScope
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings6.16 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings9.15 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings6.65 Ratings
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    blackfire.ioOpenText SiteScope
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    blackfire.ioOpenText SiteScope
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Blackfire
    Blackfire.io is super helpful in allowing proactive testing of applications before releasing on the production environment. Blackfire.io provides actionable insights to improve code proactively by integration with the development software. Also tracks the live production environment and is able to highlight any loading issues or unusual bounce rates. Blackfire.io also monitors HTTP requests and SQL queries which again help improve efficiency for developers and reduce development time.
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    OpenText
    SiteScope is definitely well suited in an HP server environment. It is also well suited for virtual server environments. It is also well suited for those who are happy with email and text based message alerting. It may not be appropriate in other environments where monitoring physical components is critical. Because HP SiteScope does not monitor certain physical components, it does fall short of being able to be a "one stop shop solution" in regard to monitoring. It is not well suited for those looking for logic in how alerts are sent and cascade to other people or groups.
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    Pros
    Blackfire
    • Provide details on processes eating up valuable server resources
    • Alert against bottlenecks and find bottlenecks
    • Performs load tests in code before moving to production environments
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    OpenText
    • Alerts can be configured as per business requirement.
    • It can take remedial action, when defined for a particular situation.
    • Severity, priority of tickets which are created upon a trigger can be well defined.
    • The teams which need to be alerted can be configured in the tool itself, in case of any event.
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    Cons
    Blackfire
    • They count same API endpoint AND same method (e.g. POST, OPTIONS, GET etc) as different profiles
    • Customer service needs a lot of improvement
    • The documentation can be a bit more detailed to remove any scope of doubts
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    OpenText
    • Sitescope is particularly used for infrastructure monitoring. Other kinds of monitors cannot be set using HP sitescope.
    • Sitescope cannot have graphs like splunk which is why we have splunk as well which is an additional cost for the company.
    • We can't have a direct regex operations on data inside HP sitescope. We need to have the logs placed as a single log and then do that.
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    Usability
    Blackfire
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    OpenText
    Very straightforward and easy to use once you get past the short learning curve.
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    Support Rating
    Blackfire
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    OpenText
    Can't really answer this. Setup was easy and no support has really been used at this point.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Blackfire
    blackfire.io definitely provides an edge over competing products such as Datadog due to the level of monitoring and analysis it provides. Datadog is a great tool however when evaluating and catching inefficiencies in lower non production environments, blackfire.io provides a level of reporting that were did not find any competing products.
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    OpenText
    SiteScope unified console is a powerful tool for operators to easily detect warnings and alerts grouped by its hierarchical organization with real-time status displaying continuously the whole health map.
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    Return on Investment
    Blackfire
    • Reduce in bugs by 50%, more happy customers
    • 2x decrease in load time for the website
    • 100% performance validation before production release
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    OpenText
    • Sitescope does exactly what it was purchased for. It may take some time to set it up but once its set up it is a rock solid product.
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