Amazon CloudWatch surpasses its competitors by offering real-time monitoring, customizable dashboards, and seamless integration with AWS services, ensuring comprehensive visibility and actionable insights for optimizing application performance and resource utilization.
Zabbix is a comprehensive monitoring solution that is widely used across various industries. Its primary use case is for monitoring infrastructure, including physical, virtual, and network aspects.
Zabbix helps organizations by providing valuable metrics for preventive maintenance and capacity planning, proactive monitoring and alerting, monitoring a wide range of hardware equipment, optimizing work processes, improving customer experiences, enabling remote appointments with visual communication, and providing an overview of bandwidth consumption.
With Zabbix, organizations can conveniently monitor network metrics in one place, saving time and improving efficiency.
It’s free of cost.
It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs.
It’s free of cost.
It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs.
Dynatrace is an AI-powered software intelligence monitoring platform that accelerates digital transformation and simplifies cloud complexities. Dynatrace is an entirely automated full-stack solution that provides data and answers about the performance of your applications and deep insight into every transaction throughout every application, including the end-user experience. By modernizing and automating enterprise cloud operations, users can deliver an optimal digital experience with higher quality software to customers faster.
Decodes on less used/popular protocols are available, but they should be included. Additional investment should not be required.
Pricing is based on the number of servers monitored, so for big applications, it is a bit expensive.
Decodes on less used/popular protocols are available, but they should be included. Additional investment should not be required.
Pricing is based on the number of servers monitored, so for big applications, it is a bit expensive.
If it’s the right tool, it doesn’t matter what it costs because you’re going to get it back many-fold from your productivity.
New Relic is either free with low retention and minimal functionalities, or expensive with full options and retention.
If it’s the right tool, it doesn’t matter what it costs because you’re going to get it back many-fold from your productivity.
New Relic is either free with low retention and minimal functionalities, or expensive with full options and retention.
Grafana is an open-source visualization and analytics platform that stands out in the field of monitoring solutions. Grafana is widely recognized for its powerful, easy-to-set-up dashboards and visualizations. Grafana supports integration with a wide array of data sources and tools, including Prometheus, InfluxDB, MySQL, Splunk, and Elasticsearch, enhancing its versatility. Grafana has open-source and cloud options; the open-source version is a good choice for organizations with the resources to manage their infrastructure and want more control over their deployment. The cloud service is a good choice if you want a fully managed solution that is easy to start with and scale.
​Grafana is free and open source.​
I use the open source model so it is free.
​Grafana is free and open source.​
I use the open source model so it is free.
I am currently using a self-hosted open version.
We are currently paying through Cloudera for the Sentry service.
I am currently using a self-hosted open version.
We are currently paying through Cloudera for the Sentry service.
SolarWinds NPM is a network monitoring solution that enables you to detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues and outages quickly and efficiently. The solution is a powerful tool that can help you increase service levels, reduce downtime with multi vendor network monitoring, simplify the management of complex network devices, improve operational efficiency, and much more.
Excluding the costs of running VMs and physical blade servers, our licensing costs run around US$200,000/year for over 60 polling engines.
I think that the cost has risen, but the functionality and versatility is way above other products.
Excluding the costs of running VMs and physical blade servers, our licensing costs run around US$200,000/year for over 60 polling engines.
I think that the cost has risen, but the functionality and versatility is way above other products.
LogRhythm SIEM Platform is an award-winning platform in security analytics. With more than 4,000 customers globally, LogRhythm SIEM is an integrated platform that helps security operations teams protect critical infrastructure and information from emerging cyberthreats. Ultimately, LogRhythm SIEM is an integrated set of modules that contribute to the security team’s fundamental mission: rapid threat monitoring, threat detection, threat investigation, and threat neutralization. LogRhythm SIEM is for organizations that require an on-premises solution and offers:
If you don't have your staff, absolutely look into the co-pilot and factor that into your cost evaluation.
Look for whatever will give you the most value. That's the main point. It is not one size fits all.
If you don't have your staff, absolutely look into the co-pilot and factor that into your cost evaluation.
Look for whatever will give you the most value. That's the main point. It is not one size fits all.
Nagios XI provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components, including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Third-party add-ons provide tools for monitoring virtually all in-house and external applications, services, and systems.
You can grow into the higher-priced scale as they learn how to utilize the features for Nagios XI.
The pricing is really cost efficient. The licensing is perpetual and can be renewed very easily.
You can grow into the higher-priced scale as they learn how to utilize the features for Nagios XI.
The pricing is really cost efficient. The licensing is perpetual and can be renewed very easily.
Organizations use Cribl for migrating to Splunk Cloud and managing log collection. It forwards logs to Splunk Cloud, curates data, and replays events for cost efficiency. Cribl reduces licensing costs by segregating less critical logs and ensures smooth transitions between log management tools like Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Datadog.
I would not say it is a cheaply priced tool as it has been doing wonders in the market. The tool has been budget-friendly for organizations.
The product pricing is reasonable compared to other solutions.
I would not say it is a cheaply priced tool as it has been doing wonders in the market. The tool has been budget-friendly for organizations.
The product pricing is reasonable compared to other solutions.
I know we are saving at least several hundred thousand dollars in that we're not buying Cisco Prime.
We pay for the enterprise tech support.
I know we are saving at least several hundred thousand dollars in that we're not buying Cisco Prime.
We pay for the enterprise tech support.
Centreon is an all-in-one IT monitoring solution that is a network, system, applicative supervision, and monitoring tool. It is free and open source, and one of the most flexible and powerful monitoring softwares on the market.
The pricing is acceptable.
For more complex tasks, we use prepaid support days and ask Centreon to come onsite.
The pricing is acceptable.
For more complex tasks, we use prepaid support days and ask Centreon to come onsite.
Pricing between the two is quiet large therefore you can save some money if you don't require to collect all info on each device.
Decide what you want to monitor and only monitor those items. Absorb other elements as you grow.
Pricing between the two is quiet large therefore you can save some money if you don't require to collect all info on each device.
Decide what you want to monitor and only monitor those items. Absorb other elements as you grow.
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is a powerful platform used for log management, analytics, and reporting. The solution is designed to provide organizations with automation, single-pane orchestration, and response for simplified security operations, as well as proactive identification and remediation of risks and complete visibility of the entire attack surface.
Its worth spending on FortiAnalyzer if you have multiple firewalls in your network.
The hardware cost and services contract are fair.
Its worth spending on FortiAnalyzer if you have multiple firewalls in your network.
The hardware cost and services contract are fair.
The IBM® SevOne Network Performance Management (IBM SevOne NPM) solution helps you spot, address, and prevent network performance issues early with machine learning-powered analytics from a single source. Boost network performance and improve your user application experience by proactively monitoring your multivendor end-to-end network across enterprise, communication, and managed service provider networks.
Prices per license are not huge, but they exist.
Have a bank of licenses, because it is about the number of objects (RAM, ports, CPU, etc.).
Prices per license are not huge, but they exist.
Have a bank of licenses, because it is about the number of objects (RAM, ports, CPU, etc.).
Observe helps monitor and analyze logs, metrics, and traces, enhancing observability and improving incident response. Users value its data integration, real-time data monitoring, and intuitive dashboards. However, the mobile experience suffers from slow load times and occasional crashes, with users desiring more intuitive features, comprehensive documentation, and better customer support.
Seq is a log storage, analysis, and monitoring tool that has gained popularity among users due to its efficient and intuitive interface. It offers powerful search capabilities, making it an essential tool for troubleshooting and debugging. Users have praised its ability to handle large volumes of logs and its integration with platforms such as .NET and Docker.
The most valuable features of Seq include its powerful log searching capabilities, efficient error analysis and debugging tools, customizable dashboards and metrics, intuitive user interface, and seamless integration with various programming languages and frameworks. Users also appreciate the scalability and performance of Seq, as well as its support for collaboration and team workflows.
Pandora FMS is a monitoring as a service (MaaS) solution that is ideal for companies with at least 100 or more devices. Instead of multiple, difficult-to-integrate monitoring systems, Pandora FMS is an all-in-one solution that is easy to use. The software is able to untangle complicated technology infrastructures to easily identify the root cause of issues in order to find the most efficient solution. It does so by analyzing everything in your system, from databases and applications to services and desktops, as well as communications.
Only one payment and it includes support, updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of plugins except for SAP and z/OS.
A very reasonable cost, understandable pricing and licensing, and a lower implementation cost.
Only one payment and it includes support, updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of plugins except for SAP and z/OS.
A very reasonable cost, understandable pricing and licensing, and a lower implementation cost.
Unify security, log management, and observability with the new CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale module, the next evolution of Humio, including the all-new managed Falcon Complete LogScale service.
