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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

    Prometheus

    Score8 out of 10
    N/APrometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.N/A
    Pricing
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Prometheus
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Prometheus
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Prometheus
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Open Source
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    34 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    35 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Prometheus
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Compuware Strobe (discontinued) and Prometheus
    Feature
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Prometheus
    -
    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
    Best Alternatives
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Prometheus
    Small Businesses
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    InfluxDB
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score7.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Splunk AppDynamics
    Score8.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Prometheus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (35 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Prometheus
    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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    Open Source
    This program works from the roots of the problem and creates a professional matrix for each of its users. This will give them more skills and resources to carry out tasks and reduce the difficulties of operating each of the processes of my work, as well as being An ally for the manipulation and operability of all your master data; Prometheus is very easy to recommend since it is a program that fulfills its mission.
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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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    Open Source
    • Looking at metrics such as the aggregate number of HTTP requests served.
    • Understanding how our services are performing in aggregate.
    • Easy to deploy within a variety of architectures/environments.
    • Open source so new features are added regularly and bugs are fixed in a timely manner.
    • Free so there are no licensing restrictions.
    • Endorsed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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    Open Source
    • Customer Service: since this is an open-source tool, customer service is not that great. Generally, you get all answers to your problems in online forums, but in case you got stuck, nobody will assist you in a channelised manner. You will have to find the way out on your own, and it may become frustrating at times.
    • More metrics for dashboards shall be added per the application being monitored. Standards metrics will work in most cases but may not in specific applications. Therefore, customised metrics shall be created for some of the industry-standard niche applications.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    It is usable and one can learn if few people in the team are already using it. It can be difficult to understand at the beginning because of non intuitive UI and syntax of the rules. So, I've gone for 7 points as there is some room for improvement in user interface and rules syntax.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    Never had to reach out to them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
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    Open Source
    Highly customized pricing plans to choose from. Lower pricing for the same features compared to competitors. Easy to reach the support team, which provided detailed documentation and helped set up the Prometheus. Monitoring metrics gets very easy after the integration with Grafana. It also has a sophisticated alert setting mechanism to ensure we don't miss anything critical.
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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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    Open Source
    • We are still working on the ROI
    • The ROI mentioned during the purchase has not been achieved, however this could be due to lack of data from our side. 2 years of implementation is too early to calculate and confirm the ROI.
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