SiteScope is a threshold event-based platform the allows real-time visualization for IT infrastructure, applications, and services. SiteScope is structured to pull information from many different sources being agent-less and runs on Linux or Windows with the capacity to grow vertically.

Pros and Cons

Event-based monitoring.
Infrastructure monitoring.
Thresholds and actions configuration.

Dynamic thresholds.
Machine learning features.
Available for different browsers.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Currently, the SiteScope front end only runs in internet explorer. Some configurations, integrations, and troubleshooting are complex to manage and perform.

January 08, 2021

SiteScope- Does it live up to expectations? Find out below!

Srashti Saraf

Senior Analyst

Accenture (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

Score 7 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SiteScope is being used to monitor the production URLs for the Client based in news and media. The entire infrastructure is being monitored using the Micro Focus toolstack and SiteScope is at the core of it.

Pros and Cons

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.

It requires integration with other tools for alert generation and routing.
It needs to provide some ease of usage as many free counterparts offer, this being licensed, needs to prove its utility better than the free tools available.

Likelihood to Recommend

It can be used to monitor the uptime and availability of the URLs in the production and non production environments and detailed reports of the URL availability can be extracted to check, monitor the performance of the URL in variety of regions from where it is accessed.
It requires specific knowledge of integration with the other Micro Focus tools for alerts generation and routing to correct focal points, so needs to improve a little on the UI part of the tool as it is a licensed tool and needs to ace the game for many free tools are also available in the market, which can do the job.

February 20, 2020

SiteScope - Helpdesk Loving It!!

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 7 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We looked at introducing it as a general overview monitoring system. We started out in the network area for simple monitoring of network bandwidth, ping and smnp monitoring. From there we plan to expand it to server monitoring; CPU, disk space, memory, and overall performance monitoring. Last for the virtualization and cloud monitoring. We have been in the virtualization area for years and slowly moving into the cloud.

Pros and Cons

SNMP monitoring.
Microsoft service monitoring.

URL failing authentication errors.
SNMP monitoring return null sometimes.

Likelihood to Recommend

For a general overall monitoring purpose, SiteScope does it for you. SiteScope offers an overview in multiple areas, best used for helpdesk monitoring. Good insight for application, database, media, network, server, virtualization, and cloud. We setup a general monitor for our helpdesk with network and virtualization basic stats.

Support Rating

Can't really answer this. Setup was easy and no support has really been used at this point.

February 17, 2016

While not a "one stop shop", HP SiteScope is a highly customizable monitoring and alerting solution.

Aaron Hartzler

Systems Engineer

ScentAir (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my previous role, HP SiteScope was critical for us in our business. We mainly used it for monitoring, alerting, and notifying on the different servers and I.T. infrastructure equipment. It was definitely a necessity to have SiteScope up and running at all times so that we would be alerted in the event of another system or server having an issue or a problem.

SiteScope was mainly used by the I.T. Infrastructure team. However, other internal teams did make use of its specific alerting capabilities as SiteScope is very customizable.

The main business problem that SiteScope addressed was "how do we get alerts, notifications, and/or emails when there are true issues in our environment?" SiteScope was flexible enough to satisfy being the answer to this question. I will say this, that it, in and of itself, was not the sole solution, but rather a piece of our overall greater monitoring and alerting solution.

Pros and Cons

Custom monitors with custom thresholds, timing, polling, and many other configuration options.
Custom ways to alert and notify. Of course you have email and text message capabilities, but SiteScope also allows for specific messages and variables within those messages to be sent out so that your alert is data filled and you can know exactly what is going on and why you received that specific alert.
Monitor templates for quick and rapid deployment of one's standard set of monitors. Easy ability to "copy" and "paste" monitors so there is no need to re-create from scratch.
Scripting. SiteScope also allows for custom scripts to be called from specific alerting triggers. This allows for HUGE and POWERFUL customization and automation through SiteScope. You can easily have scripts that "take action" on a specific alert so you don't have to!!
Very easy to use in my opinion. Learning curve is very short and you can master this system fairly quickly for all of the depth of customization that it offers.

SiteScope does not monitor certain physical components. For example, SiteScope cannot monitor things like power supplies failing, failed hard drives (it DOES monitor disk space), array controllers, etc.
SiteScope does not offer cascading alerting. By that I mean that alerting is an all or nothing type of thing. It does NOT offer this example of a kind of configuration: alert tier 1, if no response, then alert tier 2. It is only capable of alerting 1 to many emails. So if you are looking for that type of cascading logic to alerting, you may want to look elsewhere.
There is no mobile application that I know of. So, you are limited to email and text message alerting unless you link it to some other application that does that sort of thing.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

February 29, 2016

HP SiteScope - Brief overview

Ankur Arora

System Engineer (Monitoring)

Millennium Management (Investment Management, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HP SiteScope was used as one of the enterprise wide monitoring tools. The primary purpose was for web/URL related monitoring for internal and external websites. The tool would alert if any website is down. Also, the tool was used for agentless monitoring for CPU, memory and disk of servers where an agent cannot be installed.

Pros and Cons

URL based monitoring
Remote monitoring for CPU, memory and disk
Log monitoring

The tool doesn't have much visibility for JavaScript heavy web pages for URL monitors.
The Java version to run the tool has issues sometimes with running the application.
The reporting function needs some improvement.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for remote/agentless monitoring. If installing an agent is not an option, then HP SiteScope is a great tool to use. All you need is to set up a user/service account to enable monitoring and start collection metrics. It is not appropriate for a very large scale environment as the tool has some scalability issues.

February 19, 2016

SiteScope a rock solid Application for real time performance monitoring

Alex Gouskos

Senior System Engineer

Sandata Technologies (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees)

Score 7 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using HP Sitescope mostly to emulate a user using VuGen LoadRunner Scripts to log into our website to ensure our products are online. We also are using some of the monitors to verify services are running.

Pros and Cons

SiteScope emulates users with the use of scripts and without fail it has alerted us to potential application issues.

SiteScope could be a bit more user friendly.
The interface is very "clunky" and slow. It is also difficult sometimes to find what you are looking for.

Likelihood to Recommend

SiteScope is very well suited to emulate users to log into sites. Any product can tell you whether a service is running but SiteScope can also perform performance metriocs on response tiles and alert if you fall above or below a threshold depending on how you set up the monitor.

November 18, 2016

Best infrastructure monitoring tool that companies can use

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Retail Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 8 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using HP sitescope as one of the monitoring tool for alerts along with splunk. We use it along with shell scripts that will be triggered through Sitescope and send alerts based on the response. Splunk is not designed particularly for infrastructure monitoring and with Sitescope we have default monitoring for CPU processes, memory etc. We also do JVM monitoring with Sitescope which is difficult to do with splunk.

Pros and Cons

All the infrastructure monitoring things are preexisting and we don't need to set up anything additional when using HP Sitescope. We have monitors for ps, CPU, etc., for our application.
HP Sitescope can also run the custom scripts in our servers and send an alert based on the output. For example, we are running one custom script with HP sitescope to monitor large size files and send an alert if they exceed the threshold.
Sitescope will have logs as well which can then be forwarded to splunk to draw graphs in splunk for the dashboard. For example, ps is very expensive in splunk and it was disabled. So we are sending that stat from HP sitescope and have a splunk dashboard to show the memory of that process over time.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

HP sitescope is mostly used if we need infrastructure monitoring. And in most companies, we have many servers and need to monitor their health and so Sitescope is a good buy for all such scenarios. It is not very useful when we want to have dashboards and depictions based on the data from Sitescope. We can't index the logs and create regex operations from those logs like we do in other monitoring tools.

Micro Focus SiteScope Scorecard Summary

Likelihood to Recommend (7): 70%
7.0
Usability (1): 80%
8.0
Support Rating (2): 60%
6.0

Feature Scorecard Summary

Application Performance Management (12): 77%
7.7

What is Micro Focus SiteScope?

Micro Focus’s SiteScope is an agentless application performance monitoring tool with hybrid support for connectivity across systems and vendors. SiteScope offers automation services, including automated incident remediation. The product also integrates workflows between applications across the user’s ecosystem, and Micro Focus offers over 8000 prebuilt workflows for out-of-the-box usability and rapid installation-to-monitoring processes.

SiteScope also allows for customizable issue thresholds and virtual machine management, enabling manual performance optimization. SiteScope monitors across servers, networks, virtualized environments, cloud products, and databases, and between disparate vendors as well.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Micro Focus SiteScope?

Micro Focus’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.

What are Micro Focus SiteScope's top competitors?

Zabbix, AppDynamics, and Splunk Enterprise are common alternatives for Micro Focus SiteScope.

What is Micro Focus SiteScope's best feature?

Reviewers rate Threshold alerts and Application dependency mapping and thresholding highest, with a score of 8.4.

Who uses Micro Focus SiteScope?

The most common users of Micro Focus SiteScope are from Mid-size Companies and the Information Technology & Services industry.