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BMC TrueSight vs CA Unified Communications Monitor comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 3, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

BMC TrueSight
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
40th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (34th), Event Monitoring (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (28th), AIOps (5th)
CA Unified Communications M...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
67th
Average Rating
6.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Unified Communications Monitoring (6th), Network Monitoring Software (95th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of BMC TrueSight is 1.0%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CA Unified Communications Monitor is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
BMC TrueSight Operations Management1.0%
CA Unified Communications Monitor0.2%
Other98.8%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Ayobanji Iluyomade - PeerSpot reviewer
The solution is stable and can be used for monitoring and managing events, but it does not provide application or service monitoring features
We are moving from basic monitoring to AIOps, where we can do things like self-healing. We also want to create dashboards for IT and business users to show the status of their services. We have done a couple of demos. I recommend the solution to others. Overall, I rate the product a seven out of ten.
itarchit489981 - PeerSpot reviewer
Good end-to-end voice quality monitoring and offers valuable features
The solution should have automatic baseline detection. On the per hour, per base, per week. That's usually the best. And on a per individual CI level. I know that they're working on it and when that's available then we will definitely implement it because it will reduce the effort we need to maintain all the products. Right now we have to set thresholds for every location, and it needs to be actually dynamic so if we have better thresholding, we'll have faster alarms across all our locations. We won't have to expend effort on it by resetting or checking them on a regular basis.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The Event Management is outstanding; still is the most interesting part of the product."
"The fact that they have a very integrated relationship with Sentry Software, the Knowledge Module, is valuable... The richest feature for us is the number of Knowledge Modules that we can load into the product to add breadth of service to the customer. It enables us to move up the operational stack from hardware, to operating system, to application, and to cloud... That enables us to provide one pane of glass over all those layers - hardware, OS, app, and cloud."
"I use the solution to monitor servers, databases, Windows, Linux, and web services."
"What I like best about BMC TrueSight Operations Management is that it allows you to do granular monitoring and improves VM load."
"The tool is flexible enough to be customized based on customer requirements."
"I believe that the ease of use and UI is great"
"It provides common administration, and a Single Sign-On Platform with RBAC, which eases the cross launch between multiple tools"
"The major advantage of the product is estate management."
"Good end-to-end monitoring"
"We use the solution to meet the needs of the customer."
 

Cons

"The stability of BMC TrueSight Operations Management needs improvement. My organization's infrastructure is vast and implemented based on BMC recommendations, but the solution needs to be optimized for large-capacity infrastructure."
"Deployment requires lots of resources (servers). It has too many consoles."
"It would be better if the initial setup and deployment were more straightforward."
"This solution is lacking in application monitoring features. Technical support for this solution also needs improvement, particularly in product knowledge and response time."
"The solution is a little obsolete."
"It's too complex, too many servers are required, there are too many different components in the solution, and a lot of agents are required."
"I would really like to see out-of-the-box support for monitoring uninterruptible power supplies."
"The dashboard and performance graphs should include a way to automatically schedule and export reports."
"All the features and functions of the solution can be improved."
"The solution should have automatic baseline detection."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We did a five-year, multimillion dollar deal."
"We're end-of-lifeing it now. Overall, the licensing costs of BMC are a challenge for us in that they're hard costs, whereas open-source monitoring has soft costs, where it's harder to line-item."
"The cost depends on the usage."
"Pricing is all volume-driven. I think we were paying between $80 and $85 per license. That's per unit, for a perpetual license. You pay it one time and then, every year, you pay 20 percent of that for annual maintenance and support. But now that we've grown, we've purchased tens of thousands of licenses and the cost per license has gone down to something like less than $30..."
"Annual licensing amount depends on the customers requirements. Support is an additional fee and there are options for three and five year support."
"The tool is moderately expensive."
"Use conservative figures. In terms of hardware, monitored servers and also effort. The product is not cheap. But as with other products, you get what you pay for."
"Other products are more expensive than BMC TrueSight."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
12%
Retailer
6%
Manufacturing Company
5%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise24
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
The solution provides visibility to our infrastructure, how it is, the resources we are monitoring, and quick updates when it has any problems. We have integrated it with ServiceNow to open instances.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
Though I have no clue about the tool's actual price, I know that it is astronomical.
What needs improvement with BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
Cost is an issue with BMC TrueSight Operations Management. Though I am not responsible for the budget, I know that it is an expensive tool set when used only for event management. The tool's issue ...
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Also Known As

ProactiveNet, TrueSight Operations Management
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Sample Customers

Ensono, Transamerica, Boston Scientific, Park Place Technologies, inContact, TD Ameritrade, PNC Bank
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