Freshping was a website uptime monitoring tool with free and enterprise editions, from Freshworks. The product is no longer available to new customers.
$11
per month, billed annually
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Oracle’s Enterprise Manager is an on-premises monitoring and management tool. The console is designed primarily to manage other Oracle products, it but can integrate to manage non-Oracle components as well.
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Pricing
Freshping (discontinued)
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Editions & Modules
Blossom - 60 checks (can add more checks)
$11.00
per month, billed annually
Garden - 80 checks (can add more checks)
$36.00
per month, billed annually
Sprout
Free
50 checks (none additional)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Freshping (discontinued)
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Free Trial
No
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
Every additional 10 checks - $8/month billed annually
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Freshping (discontinued)
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Features
Freshping (discontinued)
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Freshping (discontinued)
4.8
2 Ratings
48% below category average
Oracle Enterprise Manager
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Ratings
Remote monitoring
7.52 Ratings
00 Ratings
Network device monitoring
2.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring
4.52 Ratings
00 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring
2.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications
8.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Freshping (discontinued)
8.0
1 Ratings
6% above category average
Oracle Enterprise Manager
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Ratings
Policy-based automation
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Freshing is well suited for user-facing systems, the systems they directly use. It also serves as nice eye-candy for them to look at. It does not monitor internal IT systems as well as we had hoped, so we use other tools to monitor those systems.
OEM is very well suited for all Oracle products, especially Oracle databases and Exadata machines; even not Oracle hardware, it is very good and displaying high level details. OEM is not well suited for older hardware vendors like AIX, HP-UX, DEC/Digital, Microsoft (sql server). This is a big negative as most large companies have a heterogeneous environment with many different vendor hardware and (database) software products.
Monitoring Templates: There are out of box monitoring templates for each target types, you can customize them or use them as it is.
Administrative Groups: This is a relatively new feature in OEM Cloud Control. This lets you create and manage your targets and monitoring templates smarter and with less re-work.
DB Monitoring: There are so many cool DB monitoring features and visual graphics, that it can be used by both DBA and functional people to see what's going on in the database.
Bugs. Every version we upgrade to has a number of bugs. Some stop us from rolling to production OEM (we have a sandbox OEM), some are simply annoying. If I could improve on one thing, it would be for better QA from oracle before releasing each version.
Flash. I'm told that they are moving from Flash to Jet in version 13.3 and beyond (we are on 13.2 currently). That change cannot come soon enough. The OEM pages load SO slowly due to Flash.
Hierarchy Groups. OEM allows five Hierarchy groups. A Hierarchy group allows a top down metric/rule roll out. However, they limit you to five. I'd like to see them open that up, so that we can have any number of custom groups.
It's perfectly easy and straightforward to use. There's no need to read documentation, you just register and will surely be able to configure whatever monitor you want to set up. It's also very easy to use other features like the status page, reporting, alerts, etc.
It's great! It does everything and anything you would want it to do. It can monitor things which doesn't comes out of the box by adding plug ins to it, for example, you can even monitor Oracle GoldenGate Replication by adding a plug-in to OEM Cloud Control.
I still rate OEM as a must-have tool for central management of Oracle fleet. The pros and cons of the product is prominent. Meanwhile, I also acknowledge that OEM was design about a decade ago. At that time, it did not have the landscape we have today, such as cloud, DEVOPS, machine learning, etc. I hope in future releases, the design will incorporate those features.
We use Uptime Robot, and also some internal health checks, which report directly to our emails and chat applications. They all work "pretty fine," but unfortunately all of them have had some false positives or missed some minor downtime, so as for us, it doesn't add too much overhead, and we prefer to use several. I would say all the ones mentioned are good for the job.
Being an Oracle shop using Oracle Database and MySQL, management console from Oracle was a better choice than IBM or Microsoft even though we do use Microsoft Azure and storage/servers from IBM (on-prem).
We are a 7x24 shop. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control helps us meet that objective by proactively warning us before issues cause down time. Things like disk space, archive log issues or temporary table space issues.
Spreading the use of this tool outside of the DBA group has allowed us to not hire additional personnel for those teams. Over time, as folks have retired from our operations team, we are not replacing them. Instead we have used OEM Cloud Control to automate tasks.
We also now have the tools to measure up-time by using specific measurements inside of OEM. This allows us to report real numbers to management.
