OP5 Monitor Reviews

Name: OP5 Monitor
Brand: ITRS
Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

Vendor: ITRS

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OP5 Monitor is the #37 ranked solution in Infrastructure Monitoring tools and #46 ranked solution in best Network Monitoring Tools. PeerSpot users give OP5 Monitor an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. OP5 Monitor is most commonly compared to Datadog: OP5 Monitor vs Datadog. OP5 Monitor is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 62% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 16% of all views.

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Harish Venkateshappa

Information Technology Staff at GlobalFoundries

Feb 14, 2023

The solution is useful for tweaking. However, there have been some negative experiences, such as limited report capabilities. The only report available is in PDF format, making it difficult for teams managing multiple servers to extract data in Excel format. The speaker recommends that the team improve the report capabilities to better serve users. If there are corrupt files the data can be extracted from them. Anyone who wants to see the performance of memory usage, such as whether it's at 80 to 90 percent, can use this tool. However, other tools can provide this information in two minutes, this tool is more time-consuming and the report it provides is not very effective for practical use. When it comes to reports, the tool falls short. During a recent call, it was noted that while the company has distributed servers across the globe, only the master server can accommodate the reports and events, causing delays. If other servers experience issues, the team cannot view the reporting or tag things, such as for troubleshooting purposes. If this aspect was improved it would be an excellent tool.

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Sumanth Arshanapally

Senior Analyst at HCL Technologies

Nov 3, 2022

We use OP5 Monitor to monitor servers, databases, storage, filers, storage devices, network devices, and log file monitoring Its open-source environment is accessible to everyone. We use plugins and scripts to monitor and can use customized scripts. We can also observe whatever we want, and there…

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Martin Huska

Head of IS Delivery Centre at The Linde Group

Apr 12, 2023

The setup was straightforward for our purposes, but the more you want to monitor, the more you have to fine-tune things. This is true for all products. You get some basic functionality and basic monitoring with minimal effort, but if you put in more effort, you get more granular details out of it. It deployed pretty fast. In one day you can be up and running with basic monitoring, but there were new features added to the system. If you need more, you will want to fine-tune the cluster and the way it monitors things. In terms of the deployment process, you needed to add a virtual machine or a physical machine if needed. You then install the application, provide credentials, and that's it. You then just need to populate and you can do auto-discovery to populate it, although I'm not sure how the auto-discovery works. Our approach was to use the CMDB. We added the devices and elements that we wanted to monitor based on our CMDB. I had two people onboarding it, but they did it as a side job, not full-time. It depends on how you set it up, but if you do it yourself, two people are sufficient to address it. They have to have some technical knowledge.

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OP5 Monitor market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of OP5 Monitor in the Network Monitoring Software category stands at 1.2%, marking a decrease of 0.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"With limited hardware or a virtual machine, you can address a huge network, hundreds of thousands of elements that need to be monitored. Other commercial software is not on that level."
"OP5 Monitor is a great choice due to its being built on an open-source monitoring tool and provides ample opportunity for customization based on specific support requirements. It is also user-friendly and easy to manage with a wide range of plugins available for use. In comparison to other enterprise tools, such as Micro Focus, OP5 Monitor stands out for its features and cost-effectiveness, making it the best tool in the market. Customization is one of the key strengths of the tool and provides a lot of capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to find support and plugins for the tool through online resources."
"We can also observe whatever we want, and there are no limitations."

Room for Improvement

"OP5 lacks some visualization, a feature that makes some other products nice. Op5 is built for purpose, which is fine, but if you compare it with some new products, the visualization is not so appealing, especially for management... If you don't need fancy visualizations, OP5 is fine."
"The solution is useful for tweaking. However, there have been some negative experiences, such as limited report capabilities. The only report available is in PDF format, making it difficult for teams managing multiple servers to extract data in Excel format. The speaker recommends that the team improve the report capabilities to better serve users."
"We do not get performance reports properly."

Pricing

The cost for OP5 Monitor is paid yearly or for a longer period, and it is not expensive. Unlike other solutions, OP5 Monitor does not require additional licenses for databases, allowing for a larger installation on a single machine. This makes it a great value for the money. The cost of the license and support are separate, and opting for platinum call support incurs additional costs.

"It was not expensive. And because it's less demanding in terms of hardware, you don't have to pay for another SQL or other database license, and you can have a huge installation on one machine..."
"The cost of the license and support are separate. If you want platinum call support, it will cost more than a regular call. I did not opt for it, as it is an additional cost."
"OP5 has a very low price as a solution, compared to many other solutions out there."

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OP5 Monitor is a flexible and highly scalable monitoring solution for all sizes of environments. Use just one product to monitor your IT environment regardless of location, whether on-premise, in dynamic environments, public cloud or a hybrid of these.

Digital transformation adds extra layers and complexity to the IT estate by creating a hybrid IT environment of both static and dynamic environments, that can be difficult to monitor efficiently. ITRS OP5 Monitor gives enterprises full visibility over their entire IT estate through a single pane of glass, allowing them to consolidate monitoring tools and cut down costs.