A simple cloud hosted solution for time series data
March 14, 2018
A simple cloud hosted solution for time series data
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with TrueSight Pulse
We use Pulse for performance and availability monitoring across all of our servers that demand real-time monitoring. Pulse is used primarily by our NOC to review current load as well as historical loads.
- Real-time high-resolution metric monitoring. Data can be collected and viewed at 1-second resolution.
- Visualization of line charts
- Cloud hosted
- Pulse lacks the ability to have multi-level filters for viewing data. You can only build a dashboard containing particular metrics then you can change what instances are displayed on those charts. It would be nice to be able to have dropdowns to select categories of instances within other categories. It would also be nice to have instances of metrics (i.e. % processor time for processor 1, 2, 3, 4, etc rather than the current single % processor time). The only way to do this right now is to create 1 metric per instance (i.e. % processor time.1, % processor time.2, % processor time.3, etc).
- Alarms can only be built at a single severity level. Alarm configuration is pretty limited.
- User permissions are lacking. There are 'user' and 'admin' permission levels, but that is it. There is no way to define permissions based upon particular actions (like creating dashboards, or creating metrics). You're just either an 'admin' or you're not an 'admin'.
- It has had a great impact because it provides our NOC a central location where they can go to view historical data without having to RDP into servers.
- It has allowed us to have a cloud hosted location where we can POST custom alerts into that can then be pulled into our private hosted alerting solutions.