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ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs Insights Hub comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
419th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Insights Hub
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2855598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud DevOps Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
CIS hardening has simplified secure container workloads but AppArmor still blocks Docker by default
The CIS L1 AppArmor enforcement breaks Docker out of the box. Containers fail to start with a permission denied on the containerd task directory. There is no documentation about this. A simple note explaining that Docker users need to either update the runc AppArmor profile or disable it would save a lot of debugging time. It takes a while to trace the failure back to AppArmor blocking runc writes to /run/containerd/.
PT
OT Expert at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Energy dashboards have given us clear cost insights and guide data driven production decisions
I hope Insights Hub can support a UMS idea and solution in the future. If we have a UMS hub or data center, Insights Hub could integrate with our database, allowing us to share one data center regardless of whether it is our MES system, SCADA system, or Insights Hub, which would be more efficient for a global company. Insights Hub could connect to our UMS data center, which would eliminate the need to rebuild a connection between the shop floor and Insights Hub. Additionally, Insights Hub could support MES functions, allowing us to integrate with the production line and transfer the ERP order from the ERP to our shop floor, thus helping the ERP be more efficient. This would include performing a buy-off from the shop floor to the ERP and adjusting the production plan for the ERP production order for greater efficiency in our production planning. I hope we can achieve MES functions in an IoT solution such as Insights Hub. One point I am not so satisfied with regarding Insights Hub is the gateway, which I believe runs on a Linux or Unix OS but does not display well for our end-users. This requires us to ask for help and support from our IT department as we cannot perform what we can do with a Windows device, such as RDP to the gateway and monitor any issues inside. Sometimes we do not know the issue exactly and have to check the log, which is very complex for the end-user.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The same-day engineering support has been very valuable."
"ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is an excellent choice for organizations adopting cloud-native technologies and modern DevOps practices."
"Once you get that launch template dialed in, the image is incredibly solid."
"The hourly software charge is small relative to the engineering time we used to spend building and maintaining our own hardened AMI."
"The pre-applied CIS L1 benchmark is the main selling point, as getting a hardened baseline without manual effort is genuinely useful and the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base also means I'm on a supported, up-to-date kernel with long-term security patches."
"Insights Hub is a good IoT solution and cloud solution, with easy to normal implementation difficulty for a company, and it can provide some help for our company to do modifications or adjustments."
"Given that great variety and diversity of machines, the main characteristic of Insights Hub is that it allows me to talk to that diversity of machines, and therefore I can extract data from them and monitor my plant without needing to use additional developments or additional configurations."
"Insights Hub is an overall major good framework for everybody to monitor the shop floor."
"Insights Hub has provided significant positive impact to my organization, including 30 to 50 percent faster incident resolution, fewer SEV one outages, reduced alert fatigue by 20 to 30 percent, better SLA compliance, and increased customer satisfaction."
 

Cons

"Because the firewall ships default-deny, the first launch in a new environment takes a little planning to open the exact ports the app and load balancer health checks need."
"It'd be cool to have more detailed changelogs with each new release so we can see exactly what packages got updated without having to boot up a test instance and diff it ourselves."
"Enterprise management and compliance tooling could be more comprehensive out of the box."
"The CIS L1 AppArmor enforcement breaks Docker out of the box."
"Insights Hub has a connection with Grafana, but I would like it to be improved."
"As of now, Insights Hub is an under-developed platform, so there is no organization-level impact."
"One point I am not so satisfied with regarding Insights Hub is the gateway, which I believe runs on a Linux or Unix OS but does not display well for our end-users."
"The learning curve is steep as it requires skill to fully utilize and is not very beginner-friendly, and querying can be complex."
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Insurance Company
67%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
4%
Manufacturing Company
2%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
The hourly premium is honestly negligible compared to the salary hours I was wasting building, patching, and maintaining my own custom images. If you have a decent-sized fleet, look at the total co...
What needs improvement with ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
It would be cool to have more detailed changelogs with each new release so I can see exactly what packages got updated without having to boot up a test instance and diff it myself.
What is your primary use case for ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
I run a bunch of stateless REST APIs and web apps in AWS behind an Application Load Balancer. Everything lives in Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs). I use this AMI as the default base for those instances ...
What needs improvement with Insights Hub?
Insights Hub has a connection with Grafana, but I would like it to be improved.
What is your primary use case for Insights Hub?
Insights Hub is used for monitoring equipment in the plant, mainly for OEE calculation. Within Insights Hub, Mendix has an application called OEE Hub, which allows me to connect the machines to the...
 

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