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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Jenkins

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AJenkins is an open source automation server. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. As an extensible automation server, Jenkins can be used as a simple CI server or turned into a continuous delivery hub for any project.N/A

    OpenText SiteScope

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/AOpenText's SiteScope is an agentless application performance monitoring tool with hybrid support across a variety of systems and vendors. Sitescope also offers automated workflow and incident identification and remediation capabilities, and rapid installation-to-monitoring processes.N/A
    Pricing
    JenkinsOpenText SiteScope
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JenkinsOpenText SiteScope
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    JenkinsOpenText SiteScope
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    87%
    Would buy again
    26 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
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    Features
    JenkinsOpenText SiteScope
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Jenkins and OpenText SiteScope
    Feature
    Jenkins
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    Ratings
    OpenText SiteScope
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings6.16 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings9.15 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings6.65 Ratings
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    JenkinsOpenText SiteScope
    Small Businesses
    Apache Maven
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Apache Maven
    Score9.1 out of 10
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Gradle Build Tool (Open Source)
    Score9 out of 10
    Splunk AppDynamics
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JenkinsOpenText SiteScope
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (74 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    6.4
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.6
    (6 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    JenkinsOpenText SiteScope
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    Jenkins is a highly customizable CI/CD tool with excellent community support. One can use Jenkins to build and deploy monolith services to microservices with ease. It can handle multiple "builds" per agent simultaneously, but the process can be resource hungry, and you need some impressive specs server for that. With Jenkins, you can automate almost any task. Also, as it is an open source, we can save a load of money by not spending on enterprise CI/CD tools.
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    OpenText
    SiteScope is definitely well suited in an HP server environment. It is also well suited for virtual server environments. It is also well suited for those who are happy with email and text based message alerting. It may not be appropriate in other environments where monitoring physical components is critical. Because HP SiteScope does not monitor certain physical components, it does fall short of being able to be a "one stop shop solution" in regard to monitoring. It is not well suited for those looking for logic in how alerts are sent and cascade to other people or groups.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Automated Builds: Jenkins is configured to monitor the version control system for new pull requests. Once a pull request is created, Jenkins automatically triggers a build process. It checks out the code, compiles it, and performs any necessary build steps specified in the configuration.
    • Unit Testing: Jenkins runs the suite of unit tests defined for the project. These tests verify the functionality of individual components and catch any regressions or errors. If any unit tests fail, Jenkins marks the build as unsuccessful, and the developer is notified to fix the issues.
    • Code Analysis: Jenkins integrates with code analysis tools like SonarQube or Checkstyle. It analyzes the code for quality, adherence to coding standards, and potential bugs or vulnerabilities. The results are reported back to the developer and the product review team for further inspection.
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    OpenText
    • Alerts can be configured as per business requirement.
    • It can take remedial action, when defined for a particular situation.
    • Severity, priority of tickets which are created upon a trigger can be well defined.
    • The teams which need to be alerted can be configured in the tool itself, in case of any event.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • The UI could be slightly better, it feels kind of like the 90s, but it works well.
    • An easier way to filter jobs other than views on the dashboard.
    • An easier way to read the console logs when tests do fail.
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    OpenText
    • Sitescope is particularly used for infrastructure monitoring. Other kinds of monitors cannot be set using HP sitescope.
    • Sitescope cannot have graphs like splunk which is why we have splunk as well which is an additional cost for the company.
    • We can't have a direct regex operations on data inside HP sitescope. We need to have the logs placed as a single log and then do that.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    We have a certain buy-in as we have made a lot of integrations and useful tools around jenkins, so it would cost us quite some time to change to another tool. Besides that, it is very versatile, and once you have things set up, it feels unnecessary to change tool. It is also a plus that it is open source.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Open Source
    Jenkins streamlines development and provides end to end automated integration and deployment. It even supports Docker and Kubernetes using which container instances can be managed effectively. It is easy to add documentation and apply role based access to files and services using Jenkins giving full control to the users. Any deviation can be easily tracked using the audit logs.
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    OpenText
    Very straightforward and easy to use once you get past the short learning curve.
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    Performance
    Open Source
    No, when we integrated this with GitHub, it becomes more easy and smart to manage and control our workforce. Our distributed workforce is now streamlined to a single bucket. All of our codes and production outputs are now automatically synced with all the workers. There are many cases when our in-house team makes changes in the release, our remote workers make another release with other environment variables. So it is better to get all of the work in control.
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    OpenText
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    As with all open source solutions, the support can be minimal and the information that you can find online can at times be misleading. Support may be one of the only real downsides to the overall software package. The user community can be helpful and is needed as the product is not the most user-friendly thing we have used.
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    OpenText
    Can't really answer this. Setup was easy and no support has really been used at this point.
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    It is worth well the time to setup Jenkins in a docker container. It is also well worth to take the time to move any "Jenkins configuration" into Jenkinsfiles and not take shortcuts.
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    OpenText
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Overall, Jenkins is the easiest platform for someone who has no experience to come in and use effectively. We can get a junior engineer into Jenkins, give them access, and point them in the right direction with minimal hand-holding. The competing products I have used (TravisCI/GitLab/Azure) provide other options but can obfuscate the process due to the lack of straightforward simplicity. In other areas (capability, power, customization), Jenkins keeps up with the competition and, in some areas, like customization, exceeds others.
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    OpenText
    SiteScope unified console is a powerful tool for operators to easily detect warnings and alerts grouped by its hierarchical organization with real-time status displaying continuously the whole health map.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Faster Time-to-Market: Jenkins automate the build, testing, and deployment process, enabling faster feedback and continuous improvement.
    • Improved Quality: Jenkins automatically run unit tests and integration tests, ensuring that code changes meet the necessary quality standards.
    • Cost Savings: Jenkins is an open-source tool that is free to use
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    OpenText
    • Sitescope does exactly what it was purchased for. It may take some time to set it up but once its set up it is a rock solid product.
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