Chose Checkmk
As we needed a solution for Linux servers, the Microsoft solution did not fit. Although the agent provided basic information, it crashed frequently, used excessive system resources, and was not flexible enough.
Checkmk vs. Splunk Observability Cloud
Checkmk vs. Splunk Observability Cloud
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 Checkmk | N/A | Checkmk is a solution for IT Monitoring of servers, applications, networks, cloud infrastructures (public, private, hybrid), containers, storage, databases and environment sensors. It can be deployed under all major Linux distributions or users can run it as Docker container or virtual appliance on other operating systems including Windows. The tool is available as a Raw Edition, which is open-source, and as an Enterprise Edition with a many additional enterprise features. The… | $0 up to 10 systems | |
 Splunk Observability Cloud | N/A | Splunk Observability Cloud aims to enable operational agility and better customer experience through real-time AI-driven streaming analytics allowing accurate alerts in seconds. It is designed to shorten MTTD and MTTR by providing real-time visibility into cloud infrastructure and services. | $15 per month (billed annually) per host |
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| Considered Both Products |  Checkmk |  Splunk Observability Cloud  Dhaval Bhalgamadiya Devops Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Datadog pushes intom proprietary ecosystem and pricing structure.Compared to self hosted prometheus and grafarna but it gave headache og managing our own monitoring infrastructure at scale.Prometheus is excellent for scraping cluster metrics but it doesnt handle distributed …  Ruben Martinez Information Systems Security Officer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud It's able to quickly detect and resolve issues across the entire spectrum of deployments including on-premises, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and multicloud  Brennan Fuller Systems Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk is superior in many ways to these solutions when I'm comes to ingesting, storing, manipulating, and using data, but dynatraces automatic agents do make it much easier to use out of the box. Nagios seems much cheaper but does not provide as much functionality as Splunk. …  Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk requires less work for data in gestion and parsing. Splunk has more efficient data display features.  Mayank Thirani Senior Software Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Log Observer provides easy setup and ease of admin features and direction of product was better compared to Lightstep  Anuj Rai Performance Engineer Chose Splunk Observability Cloud We are having other monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog and already using their end-user monitoring capability. Most of our customers are looking for agent-free monitoring where they don't want to instrument any agent on their client-side (as it might …  David Williams CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides far superior options for anybody using a complex hybrid multi-cloud environment and allows both your SOC and NOC to work together on the same data while driving their own insights. We found other products are still in the old world view … |
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| Small Businesses |  Amazon CloudWatch Score 7.8 out of 10 | Amazon CloudWatch Score 7.8 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies |  ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 10.0 out of 10 | ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 10.0 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 10.0 out of 10 | ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 10.0 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Renew | 9.0 (0 ratings) | 9.0 (0 ratings) |
| Usability | 9.0 (0 ratings) | 7.6 (0 ratings) |
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