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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

    AlertSite

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAlertSite, from SmartBear Software, is a website monitoring and application performance management application offering real time alerting with root-cause analytics and robust reporting.N/A
    Pricing
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)AlertSite
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)AlertSite
    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)AlertSite
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Compuware Strobe (discontinued) and AlertSite
    Feature
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    AlertSite
    -
    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)AlertSite
    Small Businesses
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    SolarWinds Pingdom
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score7.6 out of 10
    SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Splunk AppDynamics
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)AlertSite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)AlertSite
    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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    SmartBear
    AlertSite is used in our organization to monitor our website and web applications in real-time to collect the super important metrics reflecting web page load time but from the user end (E2E) and that approaches helps us to understand what our website is experiencing in real-time.
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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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    SmartBear
    • The Deja-Click Recorder is an excellent tool.
    • Good UI that translates to large NOC screens well.
    • Easy Alerting and Reporting.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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    SmartBear
    • Tool is complicated for Alert creation
    • AlertSite GUI need improvement. As compared to Datadog, it needs improvement in GUI
    • While using AlertSite, many times we faced false alerting, they need to take a look at it to improve performance.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    Reviewing other cost saving options
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
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    SmartBear
    Pretty good product only issue was cost
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    SmartBear
    I've been unable to contact support after several attempts.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
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    SmartBear
    We moved all of our services to Site24x7 after several years with AlertSite. We looked at Uptrends and Pingdom to name a few whilst evaluating options. Pingdom lacks functionality and Uptrends we found to have quite a steep learning curve. AlertSites platform and in particular the Deja-Click recorder is a standout tool against the other platforms. Sadly the upscaling costs of multi-location transactions can quickly add up.
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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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    SmartBear
    • A negative thing is Monitoring locations would have issues and cause false-positive alerts and due to that monitoring team's repetitive work has increased.
    • A positive thing that I have noticed so far is the fact that the AlertSite customers support team is trying to build relationships and go the extra mile to make sure we can overcome any occurring issues and they are quick to respond and provide sufficient guidance for implementing efficiently, and fix products issues.
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