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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACompuware 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

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AGrafana 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.

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    Pricing
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Grafana Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Discontinued Products
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    Grafana Labs
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Grafana Cloud
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Compuware Strobe (discontinued) and Grafana Cloud
    Feature
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Grafana Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Application monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Grafana Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Grafana Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Grafana Labs
    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
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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.
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    Grafana Labs
    • 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
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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    Grafana Labs
    • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
    • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
    • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Grafana Labs
    It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
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    Grafana Labs
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance.
    • Smoothened robots deployment.
    Incentivized
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    Grafana Labs
    • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
    • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
    • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
    Incentivized
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