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Compuware Strobe (discontinued) vs. Grafana Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Compuware Strobe, later acquired by BMC, was a performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications used to pinpoint application inefficiencies causing excessive CPU consumption. The product has reached end of life.N/A
Grafana Cloud
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Grafana Cloud is a fully managed Observability Platform designed to aggregate, visualize, and analyze telemetry data across distributed architectures. The platform provides a unified environment for Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Continuous Profiling, utilizing the LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) and Pyroscope stack to provide high-cardinality analysis of system state.
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Pricing
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Grafana Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Grafana Cloud - Pro
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Grafana Cloud - Free
Free
10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
Grafana Cloud - Advanced
Volume Discounts
custom data usage custom active users
Grafana - Enterprise Stack
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Grafana Cloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Grafana Cloud
Considered Both Products
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)

No answer on this topic

Grafana Cloud
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Grafana Cloud
Easy to use
Easy to configure
Cost efficient
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Grafana Cloud
Grafana is more flexible, readily adopts other tools frameworks instead of forcing you to use their agent, doesn't force you into Vendor lock-in, and embraces open source, self-hosted, and Enterprise. Similar companies would like you to use their specific tooling and don't …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Grafana Cloud
Grafana gives more flexibility to explore its features. A new user can explore experiment and work with free Grafana account and find if it is suitable for them.Other platforms don't have the features in their freemium version that Grafana has. It lets us try features of …
Matthew Goodhall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matthew Goodhall
infastructure consultant
Chose Grafana Cloud
Grafana has a direct plugin to Icinga monitoring solution and allowed for easy configuration for us. At the time of implementation, other services did not have such an integration. As we already had a very customized and heavily introduced monitoring solution in place, we …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Grafana Cloud
Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
Features
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Grafana Cloud
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
7.2
Ratings
9% below category average
Grafana Cloud
-
Ratings
Application monitoring7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration tools8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
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Usability
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User Testimonials
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Grafana Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Compuware Strobe is very essential if you are working in a multi-system environment to constantly measure the activity of your applications. My setup involves deploying bots to perform repetitive tasks. With Compuware Strobe, I'm able to conduct early tests on codes that reduce by great margins performance issues on the development cycle; It's why I'm making a good recommendation for it.
Gray Nathan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gray Nathan
Robotic Process Automation Engineer
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Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
  • Runs detailed analysis on captured data to aid in tuning applications.
  • It's possible to run early tests on the bots' codes to detect early performance issues.
Gray Nathan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gray Nathan
Robotic Process Automation Engineer
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  • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
  • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
  • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
  • Microservices monitoring
  • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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Anonymous
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Cons
  • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
Gray Nathan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gray Nathan
Robotic Process Automation Engineer
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  • Documentation needs to be more clarified since it can be confusing for beginners
  • Notification alert message templates need to be simplified
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
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Great usage in terms of monitoring of any application from backend to frontend and even any AWS resource via cloud watch and other connectors. Easy to use and configure personalised dash boarding and alerting features. Cost efficient and easy to setup and run, no mazor scaling challenges in terms of managing and maintaining the stack, easy to configure via Prometheus, influx and other connectors
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Alternatives Considered
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Grafana is more flexible, readily adopts other tools frameworks instead of forcing you to use their agent, doesn't force you into Vendor lock-in, and embraces open source, self-hosted, and Enterprise. Similar companies would like you to use their specific tooling and don't offer nearly as much flexibility. The other thing I like about Grafana is their storage usage is much lower compared to similar tools and competitors
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance.
  • Smoothened robots deployment.
Gray Nathan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gray Nathan
Robotic Process Automation Engineer
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  • It has kicked out some of our paid monitoring and visualization tools.
  • Now Monitoring, Visualization and Alerting is being done in a single platform.
  • It made monitoring and visualization very easy for us.
ANurag Tamrakar | TrustRadius Reviewer
ANurag Tamrakar
Software Engineer - DevOps
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