CoScale (discontinued) vs. Watchman Monitoring

CoScale is designed specifically to monitor container and microservices environments managed by Kubernetes ecosystem.

Incentivized

If you are in IT consulting or manage any fleet of computers, both Mac and PC (and yes Linux) - you should have this installed. It will be able to provide you the information needed to repair computers and avoid productivity loss by users.

Incentivized

• Visualizes Kubernetes web performance in context.
• Automatically creates a number of default, but very informative dashboards.

Incentivized

• Super easy to deploy.
• Integrates well with ZenDesk and YourComputerInventory.com.
• Website is very clear and email to manage.
• Support is awesome.
• Super lightweight package.

Incentivized

• It is missing a summary view of resource consumption by all instances of a given service.
• Takes an old school approach to save dashboard changes with a button.

Incentivized

• Would like to see non-computer deployment agent - such as Synology.
• Since it's mainly reporting, this isn't necessary improvement, but it would be good if it can receive data - so in case we can't ping a machine, maybe use Watchman as a backdoor - but that would go against it's main principles.

Incentivized

We have been working with CoScale for quite some time now, and we have not encountered too many problems really. The majority of minor issues we ran into were quickly solved by reaching out to technical community forums. When it comes to the remaining ones, we were able to solve those efficiently with assistance from the supporting team of technical experts.

Incentivized

CoScale was developed as a next-generation monitoring and alerting system for Kubernetes container orchestration engine, and it largely delivers what was promised by leveraging direct integration into the orchestration engine itself. Compared to other vendors, CoScale's in-container monitoring allows even to monitor the services running within the containers, which makes a huge difference for us.

Incentivized

• Information provided by CoScale accelerates problem solving for us.
• Significantly lowers the time to identify any issues with our container environment.

Incentivized

• I've been using it since the day it came out - there have so many times where a machine has had an error reported by Watchman that we've been able to save the client before something terrible happened.
• The ROI is there - you can easily resell this product to your clients, or wrap it into your product offering.

Incentivized