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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SolarWinds Observability

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability aims to provide a comprehensive, integrated, and full-stack solution designed to optimize performance, improve availability, and reduce remediation time by correlating data from across the IT ecosystem, including networks, servers, applications, databases, and more.

    $5

    per month node

    Pricing
    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Observability
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $5
    per month per node
    Advanced
    $9
    per month per node
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Observability
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing is set per node, per month, and billing is annual. The prices listed are base prices that could increase depending on your environment. Please speak to a representative to get a quote.
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    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Observability
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    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds Observability
    Solarwinds has the best overlap of the two others I've mentioned - the other two tools (Datadog and Dynatrace) are great in their own way but Solarwinds is just good at everything; if I had to pick one tool of the above, it would be Solarwinds for the compatibility and ease of …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Features
    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Observability
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of OpenText SiteScope and SolarWinds Observability
    Feature
    OpenText SiteScope
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    3% above category average
    SolarWinds Observability
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    Ratings
    Application monitoring6.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities7.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications8.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring9.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery6.65 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Observability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
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    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Observability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    SolarWinds
    - For small teams serving big organizations - it's a really simple tool to install and set up relatively quickly. - the new installer is also great - I don't have to understand what modules need to be installed; it's all streamlined. - The HCO Licensing allows you to run the Additional polling engines at a scale where the previous licensing model didn't. We can deploy APEs in locations now, which would not have been worth the investment in previously as there weren't enough devices in that location/region to spend the $$$$ on an APE License.
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    Pros
    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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    SolarWinds
    • Automated dependency mapping is a big hit.
    • High availability is extremely simple to implement.
    • Simple to use and drill into issues.
    • Analysis of growth patterns driving the recommendation engine.
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    Cons
    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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    SolarWinds
    • Can be complex to setup
    • Is strongest with network resources
    • Assumes a fairly large amount of base knowledge
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    Usability
    OpenText
    Very straightforward and easy to use once you get past the short learning curve.
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    SolarWinds
    - decent ease of use - good training materials - good documentation - acceptable level of expected knowledge
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Can't really answer this. Setup was easy and no support has really been used at this point.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    SolarWinds
    Solarwinds has the best overlap of the two others I've mentioned - the other two tools (Datadog and Dynatrace) are great in their own way but Solarwinds is just good at everything; if I had to pick one tool of the above, it would be Solarwinds for the compatibility and ease of use, the other tools are more focused on being great at certain things while Solarwinds is the jack of all trades.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    SolarWinds
    • one license requiring 1 PO to be raised
    • sharing costs between departments for monitoring under one platform using APEs
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    SolarWinds Observability Screenshots

    Screenshot of ITOM Executive DashboardScreenshot of Observability MapsScreenshot of Performance Analysis DashboardScreenshot of Application Alerting DashboardScreenshot of Network Path Analysis