Best infrastructure monitoring tool that companies can use
November 18, 2016
Best infrastructure monitoring tool that companies can use
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with HP SiteScope
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.
- 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.
- Checking processes using a ps command and other indexing steps is very expensive in splunk.
- Infrastructure monitoring is no more an issue for our company after getting HP sitescope.
Nagios can also do most of the things that HP sitescope can do, but HP sitescope is right on target when it comes to infrastructure monitoring and also cost effective which is why we selected HP sitescope. We also have teh iPhone and Android apps which are very useful for monitoring on mobile devices as well.