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AlertSite vs Avada Software Infrared360 comparison

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Categories and Ranking

AlertSite
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
40th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
API Monitoring Software (3rd)
Avada Software Infrared360
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
73rd
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (6th), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) (12th), Server Monitoring (34th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AlertSite is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Avada Software Infrared360 is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AlertSite0.6%
Avada Software Infrared3600.5%
Other98.9%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

RituRaj - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE 2 at Virtusa
Proactive monitoring has improved uptime and now detects performance issues before users suffer
The user interface and configuration experience could be more modern and streamlined in some areas, especially when managing a large number of monitors or creating complex monitoring workflows. Better navigation, integration, and more intuitive customizations for the dashboard and alerts would improve the overall operational experience. Dashboard customizations and reporting flexibility represent another improvement area. More advanced visualization options and an easier way to create tailored operational dashboards would help the team analyze trends and share insights more effectively. The integration ecosystem could also be expanded further, especially for modern DevOps and cloud-native workflows. Stronger native integrations with collaboration tools, observability platforms, and CI/CD pipelines would make it easier to fit into the evolving engineering environment. It would also help to have more automation-friendly capabilities such as easier API-based configurations, management, and infrastructure as code support for monitor provisioning. That would make large-scale monitoring management more efficient for the DevOps team. From a support perspective, the experience has been generally stable, but faster turnaround times for more complex technical issues and more detailed troubleshooting guidance would be beneficial. Improved documentation and more advanced implementation best practices for enterprise-scale deployment would also help the team onboard and optimize the platform more effectively. AlertSite would benefit from continued modernizations in a few areas. The biggest improvement would be a more intuitive and modern user experience for configuring monitoring, managing alerts, and navigating dashboards, especially in larger environments with many monitored services. Stronger integrations with modern cloud-native DevOps ecosystems including better automation support, richer APIs, and easy integration with CI/CD pipelines and observability platforms would also be helpful. Another improvement area is intelligent alert management. Features such as smart alert correlations, anomaly detections, and noise reduction would help operations teams focus on the most critical incidents more effectively.
WK
ICT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Role-based access to queues, giving us more insights into problems
* We now have the possibility of getting a central perspective on all tenants. * We have defined access roles for developers. Therefore, they can 'read in' their queues on the development and testing stages. With special roles, they may also write. This improves our development and testing cycle. * For operative systems, we have restricted the access. Still, selected people can react if something is happening in the various BOQs.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"There are custom reports available along with the inbuilt reports."
"I highly recommend AlertSite to other users."
"If there are any issues, it triggers an alert within 30 seconds. When it triggers the alert, we go ahead and check it immediately. The alert is triggered on a real-time basis."
"AlertSite has helped improve issue detection, reduce downtime risk, and support faster troubleshooting in the production environment."
"The alerting capabilities of AlertSite were really helpful."
"This solution has numerous advantages; it's extremely simple to configure, and either digital monitors or single-URL monitors are simple to configure and build."
"I found multiple features in AlertSite that I like. One is data monitoring history, for example, a history of the blackouts and the data. Sometimes, there's a glitch in the application that AlertSite can capture, and the tool notifies you about that glitch. It also identifies issues that could happen in the future. AlertSite is also a fast tool that you can use to monitor on-premise servers, internal applications, and even global applications. The data is available on a single UI in AlertSite, so there's no need to monitor and click on different applications or URLs. I also love that the tool is quite user-friendly, apart from being fast."
"The best feature of AlertSite is that it shows you a visual graph and also sends you notifications about errors, so you get immediate notifications about errors which means that your support team can start taking steps and more quickly make sure the site is up and that customer experience isn't interrupted in terms of using your system and your products. AlertSite is a very good tool. It's user-friendly, and you can see everything on the dashboard. Configuring it is also easy."
"It allows non-technical users to inspect their individual components within the total infrastructure without disturbing other components and without bothering the technical teams."
"Monitoring that ties into our incident management system"
"I highly recommend Infrared360 for an all-in-one IBM MQ tool."
"The product has a small footprint on our system, they're very knowledgeable of MQ, which we use, and the features that they provide for monitoring our MQ system are just really, really good."
"The ability for development teams to have access to their MQ queues has freed us up as administrators to do things other than chase down an application’s message for research purposes."
"One way it's helped the business is how you're able to empower MQ users, without your administrators, to be able to do different types of processes in the environment."
"Administration, Monitoring, and Delegation are the most valuable features of the solution."
"IR360 does not require a large team to manage our entire middleware estate and allows the leveraging of a logical model of reuse."
 

Cons

"I would like the ability to get more data points with regard to some of the unique requirements that we have."
"What needs improvement in AlertSite is the documentation, particularly the lack of documentation."
"The user interface and configuration experience could be more modern and streamlined in some areas, especially when managing a large number of monitors or creating complex monitoring workflows."
"AlertSite requires improvements related to security, even at the enterprise level."
"What needs improvement in AlertSite is the documentation, particularly the lack of documentation. If there's a specific activity you want to do, you can't even find information on how to do it, so you have to contact the AlertSite support team to assist you, and only then would the issue be resolved. At the moment, it's not easy to find or get full documentation on how to deal with different issues. You always have to go back to AlertSite support and get help. The documentation for AlertSite could be improved and it's what I'd like to see in the next release of the tool because at the moment, the documentation isn't complete, so you'll have to contact support, but contacting support isn't an issue because the team responds to you quickly."
"I could use a few changes to the user interface."
"It is not compatible with all of the product platforms that we use."
"Additionally, support from AlertSite is not at an enterprise level since it is not offered 24/7."
"We definitely need a better overview in terms of a dashboard giving us insights."
"We are still working with the FTE/MFT subscription monitoring and reporting functionality. That is an area in which we would like to see further development taking place."
"The UI can be cumbersome - but we are still using the Viper interface and we have not had the time to check out the Alloy interface which is supposed to be much improved."
"One area where they could improve is with their documentation. Some sections are not up to date with new release information and providing additional samples in some areas would be very helpful."
"The user interface could be sexier and more ergonomic. The competing products have similar problems."
"We desire a dashboard that could accumulate BOQ lengths per tenant on one screen for all tenants."
"Some of the graphics in the interface could be improved. It's pretty basic. Some interfaces are not up to what you're used to seeing on other, more Windows-like tools."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company pays to use AlertSite, but I'm unsure of the exact costs because it depends on how many monitors you have."
"We purchased the license once and had the option of selecting the number of user licenses."
"The cost is high."
"Our internal budget calculation model incorporates the pricing per endpoint for any new projects. However, as our footprint for distributed queue managers shrinks as part of our shared middleware hub deployment, the initial licensing and support costs have been reduced over the last five years."
"Start small, then increase licensing later as per your demand."
"Avada Software's licensing metric is very good because the license fees are based on the number of connections (which have not increased for us very much over the years) rather than the CPU processing power (which increases significantly whenever our hardware is upgraded) or the number of users (which has increased for us a lot since our original purchase)."
"Because the licensing is at the QMGR level, you need to have at least a small cushion of licenses for occasional enterprise needs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
21%
Comms Service Provider
18%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Educational Organization
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlertSite?
The experience with the pricing and licensing of AlertSite was generally reasonable for an enterprise monitoring solution, especially considering the value it provides for proactive monitoring and ...
What needs improvement with AlertSite?
The user interface and configuration experience could be more modern and streamlined in some areas, especially when managing a large number of monitors or creating complex monitoring workflows. Bet...
What is your primary use case for AlertSite?
AlertSite is primarily used for applications and website monitoring to ensure uptime and performance availability for customer-facing services and APIs. The main use cases include monitoring web ap...
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Sample Customers

JetBlue, Payless ShoeSource, Hilton Inc., StubHub, Symantec, Newegg, Sapient, AstraZeneca, Dell, Quest Diagnostics
USBank, Southwest Airlines, Visiting Nurse Services of New York, Aon Hewitt, Parker Hannifin,  Cantonal Bank of Zurich (ZKB), Hagemeyer NA, and many others
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