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    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AData Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), also known as Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), was an application monitoring solution focusing on user experience, with an emphasis on how the network – especially the WAN – influences user experience. It is a legacy product from Dynatrace, and is no longer sold or supported.N/A

    Prometheus

    Score8 out of 10
    N/APrometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.N/A
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
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    Open Source
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    Key User Insights
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinuedPrometheus
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued and Prometheus
    Feature
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
    7.2
    3 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Prometheus
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    Ratings
    Application monitoring7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinuedPrometheus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.8
    (35 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinuedPrometheus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, has improved greatly compared to when it was DCRUM; however, it still needs a lot of improvement in end-to-end flow capture with regards to network monitoring. Its alerting and integration capabilities are very good and easy to use. But it still needs a lot of tweaking in usability.
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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
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    • Dynatrace DCRUM can monitor legacy application protocols that are still used in a lot of organizations worldwide who still trust in those technologies.
    • DCRUM monitors client-server architectures very well and can pinpoint issues along an infrastructure stack.
    • Dynatrace DCRUM can analyze a wide spectre of protocols: Corba, DNS, DB2, Exchange, TCP, HTTP, IBM MQ, Citrix, ICMP, Informix, Tuxedo, SMB, LDAP, MSRPC, MySQL, NetFlow, Net8, Oracle Forms, RMI, SAP GUI, SAP HANA, SAP RFC, SMB, SOAP, XML.
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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
    • Major upgrades process is sometimes unpredictable.
    • The use of SQL Server should be evaluated for something else.
    • Easier SSL key handling.
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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
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    Best of breed.
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    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
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    The only thing missing for a 10, would be if they texted or called you back.
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    Open Source
    Never had to reach out to them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Nagios can't trace real user transactions from a front-end tier through a backend-tier,;with Nagios you only can monitor server availability and hardware issues. Riverbed is commonly used to determine networking issues without considering real user transactions impact on an application stack.
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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
    • Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, helped us get a lot of info on an ongoing issue.
    • It helped us figure out network bottlenecks in our environment.
    • It is a very costly tool and a lot of other cheaper tools give same kind of info.
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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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