IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (7th)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (11th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (8th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is 9.1%, down from 11.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 5.4%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Event Monitoring
Unique Categories:
No other categories found
Process Automation
0.1%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
34.5%
 

Featured Reviews

RC
May 28, 2020
Good event management features and supports SNMP devices well
This is one of the monitoring tools that we use in-house for our infrastructure. This is not one of the services that we provide to our customers. I use it primarily for event management, where I can do the correlation and analysis I need to configure policies The most valuable feature is the…
SK
Sep 11, 2022
Immediate error alerting tool that requires a dedicated logging system for optimal performance
We use this solution to alert us to system errors The immediacy of the alerts allows us to provide a good user experience to our customers.  The alerts are immediate in this solution, which allows us to respond to errors quickly. We are also able to set the escalations level in this solution,…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The monitoring is the solution's most valuable feature."
"It is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable feature is the event management capability."
"Probes are the best feature because they are well written which rarely requires you to write additional rules. These probes monitor activity within your environment."
"The biggest plus points for me are the configurability and scalability of the solution, as well as the multi-tenancy of the platform."
"It is customer-centric. Customers can access the event list from their location or desktop and view the event. There is no need to go and connect to any other server and run events to have a view of all the events happening in the environment. We get a good response from customers about this feature and the main architecture of NetCool. Its processing is very good. Deduplication and correlation functionalities are good in this solution as compared to other solutions. A big advantage of NetCool is that it also supports multi-layered protocols. We can receive multiple events from different protocols like UDP, HTTP, and those events can be captured in NetCool."
"It has scaled well for us."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."
"A cool feature is that it helps us to understand the flow of the alert. If the alert was coming to the current on-call and he didn't catch the call or didn't notice it for any reason, it starts being escalated automatically, according to the escalation schedule, or to other teammates. You can see the flow very easily on your phone or via the website, if you want to do a post-mortem."
"The alerts are immediate in this solution, which allows us to respond to errors quickly."
"The product has valuable on-call scheduling, escalation, and incident workflow management features."
"The inbound integrations that PagerDuty provides with most of the DevOps tools are valuable."
"Notification is the most valuable feature."
 

Cons

"The cost of the product is quite high. They should work to adjust their pricing models."
"Its technical support team takes longer to reply."
"There should be an easier-to-understand model, more of a flat-structured model rather than different tiers of licenses which complicates licensing."
"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."
"I would like for the next release to be more user-friendly and out of date. The next release should focus on the cloud, AI, and ML technologies."
"Its integration could be better. They should provide an easier integration for all the monitoring stuff, and it will make things easier for us. Currently, there is a complexity in integrating it with a vendor application, and we have to use another tool to integrate it with a vendor application. To integrate some applications with NetCool, I need to install an IBM tool on top of it. It would be good if they can provide an API or any kind of interface that we can leverage while developing a new protocol interface or application. We should be able to use an API or interface with NetCool. Its GUI can also be better. As compared to other tools, it is not user friendly, and it is not easy to do stuff through GUI. Whenever we do anything on the GUI, it takes time. They need to focus on the GUI part, especially the dashboard. They should focus on how users can effectively drill down from one box to another. The visual appeal of the dashboard is as important as the data and functionality."
"There is room for improvement with the time schedule. The way the schedule currently works is you assign all the team members in one schedule and it automatically spreads them around throughout the schedule... It would be better to be able to edit the schedule and place my team members where I want, or at least to have that option in addition to the automatic process."
"I am not a direct end user of PagerDuty. It's hard to consider its shortcomings in that sense."
"Something that needs to be improved, is adding multilingual support."
"PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration."
"Because of the way you have to structure the rosters, if an engineer has to go on leave (or something), you can't just go in and reassign/take this person out of all of the different rosters that they're in. You have to go into each of the rosters and take them out. There might be a roster for business hours, after hours rotation, and monitoring deployments. Each time we need to take an engineer out of the pool, e.g., if they're sick or on leave, then we have to go and touch all of those rosters, updating and replacing them. Whereas, if we could just take the person out and have it automatically fill in the rostering, then that would make life a lot easier for managing it."
"The biggest area for improvement with PagerDuty is noise suppression. There have been a handful of incidents through our use of PagerDuty over the years where one incident may lead to 30 to 50 pages because you're monitoring all these different things, and each thing is an individual page. There should be the ability to set up paging tiers and group correlations between some of the different pages. That is something that would be really valuable. We should be able to say this one page may have a group or a tree of effective other pages that may tier off of it. So, if you see those pages independently, go ahead and alarm, but if you see this plus that, don't do that."
"It’s quite hard to reach the support team."
"PagerDuty should be integrated with other tools, so it can import the IT roster automatically. Our other rules continue to work once they're configured, but the roster must be added manually."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a costly solution."
"You have to have the right level of budget to afford this solution."
"Its license cost is a little bit more than other solutions. Our customers expect a standard market price that is comparative to other products. For each and every NetCool OMNIbus component, we have to purchase a separate license. These components are not free with the product."
"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
"The price is very high."
"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."
"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
"If we wanted phone calls or additional SMSs, we would have to pitch up for those. They give us so many per month per user, then we have to pay extra if it goes over that."
"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Retailer
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
The biggest plus points for me are the configurability and scalability of the solution, as well as the multi-tenancy of the platform.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
The licensing cost is quite expensive. Obviously, then there's the maintenance portion on top of the license cost, and then there is the support cost for the product suite. That's it as the in cost...
What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
Honestly, the solution has a very complicated licensing model. Firstly, there should be an easier-to-understand model, more of a flat-structured model rather than different tiers of licenses which ...
What do you like most about PagerDuty?
The product easily integrates with other solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
The price is very high. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. The license for stakeholders is very limited.
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
It’s quite hard to reach the support team.
 

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