StackState Reviews & Insights

Score8 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for StackState are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Deep Insights into AWS/EKS Stack: Several users have found StackState's ability to gain deep insights into their entire AWS/EKS stack extremely helpful. They mention that StackState provides a greater depth of observability compared to other tools like Dynatrace and CloudWatch. Auto-Discovery and Topology Mapping: Many reviewers are impressed with how quickly StackState auto-discovers and maps the topology of their entire IT environment, including data from Dynatrace and CloudWatch. This unified picture of the stack allows them to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues efficiently. Some users even reported resolving unknown performance issues in just a few hours. Innovative Visualization and Relation Mapping: A significant number of users appreciate StackState's visualization capabilities, especially its innovative way of visualizing topology through relation mapping. They mention that this feature helps with faster root cause analysis, proper monitoring, and management of dynamic environments.

Reviews

5 Reviews

StackState - Offers higher transparency and faster root cause analysis in complicated environments

Rating: 8 out of 10

June 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

StackState was tested in a PoC to achieve operational goals. To get faster root cause analysis, better visibility over on-prem and AWS resources and prevent problems on the platform.

Pros

Integration with standard tools from the Stackpack.
Ability to see machine status on timeline.
Integration with Slack and Netcool.
Merging data from all agents on StackState server.

Cons

Although license is based on number of hosts, licenses needs to be renewed every year or the StackState server cannot be used. A single license model does not serve all client requirements.
Custom development could be time consuming.
The original view with all the hosts on single view is quite useless. We got value only from smaller views.

Likelihood to Recommend

StackState is suitable for 1000+ hosts. Sometimes specific applications can take higher development time.

Well suited for hybrid platforms to build end to end service alarms and service views. Advanced UI navigation might require some training.

It is not a simple download and deploy software. It will require development in an agile model. Where newer versions are deployed to suit exact client requirements. Support contract with the StackState Engineer for development of use-cases is required and very useful.

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great tool to aggregate (monitoring and other) data to provide more insight and overview on our application and infrastructure landscape

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 29, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've introduced StackState to provide us more insight and overview on key business processes. Our ICT monitoring team is now using all kind of monitoring tools to keep track of our environment. With StackState we're aiming to aggregate this to one tool. After this, we plan to enroll StackState to other business and development teams.

Pros

Aggregate multiple sources
Provide root-cause of issues
Reduce recovery time

Cons

not is that state yet

Likelihood to Recommend

Aggregating (not only monitoring) info provides great insight in our environment.
We (currently) use it less for "process tracing."

Ronald Peters

Lead Engineer in Corporate at Robeco (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

StackState - The up and coming observability tool.

Rating: 8 out of 10

April 29, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently running en PoC for StackState and are very enthusiastic about its capabilities. The main problem in our organisation is that we have many components and little overview. We plan to roll it out to all our DevOps teams so that they can better manage their IT stack and can focus more on Dev and less on Ops.

Pros

Giving observability of the entire IT stack
Custom alerting options.
Ingesting many different types of data.
Requesting new features is encouraged and they often add them quite quickly.

Cons

Documentation is often unclear and/or lacking.
UI doesn't easily allow opening of links in a new browser tab.
Feedback for determining bugs when scripting is quite hard, although this feature is quite new, so is bound to be improved in the near future.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a very specific thing you want to monitor in your IT stack I wouldn't recommend StackState. That is as overkill as trying to catch a single fish with a commercial fishing rig. There are much lighter better suited tools for such tasks. However if you desire a complete overview of your stack, fully customizable with advanced relational properties and monitoring capabilities, StackState is the perfect tool for that.
In short, it is for big fish, not small fish.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

StackState does what it promises.

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used by the Cloud Services department, which consists of engineers on different platforms and technology to have one pane of glass for the state of our customer's IT landscape. Because of this, its easier for them to come to a root cause and improves cooperation between the teams.

Pros

Easy to implement the standard integrations.
Personal approach.
Interested in the challenges you want to solve.

Cons

Grow bigger, so the roadmap can be implemented faster.
Grow a partner network for developing integrations.

Likelihood to Recommend

On complex landscapes which consist of different platforms and teams, it will excel in bringing the teams together to understand each other better. In small environments within a single platform, it will probably be less appropriate if there is a good solution in the platform already. But dependant on the use case, there can be value in that as well.

Verified User

Advisor in Research & Development (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

StackState stacks the state of your IT environment

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

StackState combines the output off different monitoring tools, and displays them in a neatly and organized manner.It gives us a near real time state of the current IT landscape and is fed different metrics from various tools.

Pros

Lots of stackpacks that can get information from systems. E.g. Azure, Amazon, Mulesoft.
You can write your own stackpacks, to unlock systems that need more tailoring.
AI to get a faster root cause analysis.
Time travel your system to see changes over time.

Cons

Can't think of anything yet.

Likelihood to Recommend

StackState is very helpful in implementing, great support, if they don't have an answer, they will find a working one. It is more a partnership, then a business that tries to sell their product. It feels like you have extra colleagues in your company.

Verified User

Technician in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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