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Compuware Strobe (discontinued) vs. LiveAction

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    Overview
    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

    LiveAction

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.N/A
    Pricing
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)LiveAction
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)LiveAction
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)LiveAction
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Compuware Strobe (discontinued) and LiveAction
    Feature
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    LiveAction
    -
    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
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Compuware Strobe (discontinued) and LiveAction
    Feature
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    LiveAction
    6.9
    2 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)LiveAction
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)LiveAction
    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.
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    BlueCat
    From a packet tracing standpoint, it was easy to setup and analyze an issue we were having with eigrp errors between 2 data centers. Took a few minutes to stand up on both sides and compare the traffic to determine hellos weren't being sent. On the other spectrum, had it had the analytics of such products as Extrahop, it could have recognized and alerted us of an internal DNS attack we had.
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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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    BlueCat
    • Network QOS Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
    • Network L2/L3 Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
    • Network Security Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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    BlueCat
    • I use it primarily as a monitoring tool from a security standpoint, so one complaint is that the filter creation process takes a little time to learn.
    • In the digital days of printing less, I do still need to print network diagrams for compliance documentation and some of the larger network diagrams documents do not print easily.
    • I wish the network connection lines were easier to see. They are typically very light and you have to drill down to see them more clearly.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    BlueCat
    Can't really rate this, we never had to call support. The product wasn't complicated to setup and learn. We have a high level of network knowledge so the product was self-explanatory.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
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    BlueCat
    There is not any other product that does exactly what LiveAction does. Some come about halfway close, like scrutinizer by Plixer. However, there is a gap with that product as it doesn't give proper quality of service recommendations, or to update l2/l3 configs to head off problems. Plixer's scrutinizer product costs about the same. It was a no-brainer to pick LiveAction.
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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.
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    BlueCat
    • Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not.
    • Great reporting features for executives.
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