Neustar WebMetrics -- Your site availability at a glance
Pros
- It allows access to a history of checks, how much time they took, and if any errors were detected.
- It can alert several people, or many in a group, for information related to the application availability.
- When drilling down into the check, the logs can pinpoint the exact time and code events and how long each step took to respond.
Cons
- The interface can be buggy.
- We have experienced false positives of a system outage that was not accurate.
- It's not a true measure of system performance or uptime, but simply judges up or down from a holistic view.
Return on Investment
- Our company at one time gauged overall system uptime using Neustar WebMetrics to provide this data
- Due to the limitations with the applications ability to show system functionality and uptime we have begun using other methods for determining system uptime for our customers.
- The interface can be a bit tricky to understand during first use. There is somewhat of a learning curve.
Alternatives Considered
Splunk Cloud, Datadog, PagerDuty, PRTG Network Monitor, Pingdom and Nagios
Other Software Used
Splunk Cloud, Nagios, PRTG Network Monitor, SolarWinds ipMonitor, Notepad++, JIRA Software, Nutanix Prism, Octopus Deploy