We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and OpenText SiteScope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use it, in many instances, to find the root cause in production."
"Whether it is the server, database, network, or application, Dynatrace provides a consistent unambiguous view of performance."
"The technical support has always been responsive."
"It helps developers fix old and new problems, helps businesses to understand conversions, statistics, and service health."
"Stability has been very nice, and Dynatrace runs on the Linux system."
"I can get everything on a single page."
"Knowing what services are impacted by infrastructure host issues is critical to the service we offer."
"Dynatrace helps to build business and non-business dashboards and the appropriate alarming on mail groups."
"Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"There's no agent you need installed on the servers. In our environment, we have some servers out of our control so we cannot manage them. We use SiteScope to monitor the availability, the resources on the servers, etc. This allows us to do this job without installing agents so there's no need to take care of anything on the server."
"It's easy to template standard monitoring configurations, and automate monitoring configuration."
"Being able to create your monitors for monitoring your internal URLs and databases and other things like that is valuable."
"Simple deployment: The deployment uses protocols such as NetBios, SSH, WMI, SNMP, which means that any device with any of these protocols will be monitored."
"The tool has capabilities other than managing web-based applications, like URL Monitor and EPI Script. It is also easy to use the tool."
"The most valuable feature of OpenText SiteScope is that it is easy to manage and user-friendly."
"SiteScope has built-in flat file DB, hence it removes the dependency of an external DB for higher stability."
"I do not like after 60 days or 90 days it gets aggregated to summary data. I would like to be able to analyze specific PurePaths after 30 days or 60 days with real numbers."
"It's not very scalable, we cannot add another server onto it."
"Every time I want to see the PurePath, I have to launch the client. It would be helpful if they introduced this in the browser application."
"Configuration could be simpler."
"We need more AI in the product to avoid manual analysis."
"I also wish there was the ability to do alert filtering before it triggered an alert with PagerDuty/OpsGenie/Slack."
"I would like Dynatrace to be more flexible and user-friendly."
"Make it easier to define applications. E.g., provide an API for applications defined by REST services."
"You can use OpenText SiteScope for small or middle environments. But if you want to monitor a large environment, it is not scalable. If you can monitor a large environment with OpenText SiteScope, it can be a valuable product."
"Direct integration with an SMS gateway for sending critical alerts to the support SME. This will help customer investing in third party middleware solutions for SMS."
"It may lack some features other products in the category have like more detailed transaction tracking."
"We'd like a uniform interface for monitoring our system, since that's the purpose of SiteScope."
"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."
"More out of the box Cloud integration and capabilities."
"It could be more reliable using a database repository instead of a log repository."
"The lack of an agent means that remote monitoring requires multiple firewall ports to be opened."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while OpenText SiteScope is ranked 28th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText SiteScope writes "Doesn't require much custom coding and can run on different platforms, but the types of scripting files you can execute on it are limited". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas OpenText SiteScope is most compared with SCOM, AppDynamics, Prometheus, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Dynatrace vs. OpenText SiteScope report.
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Hello,
Just to add to some of the comments regarding dynaTrace. So far those are all correct. I just want to add, dynaTrace also has the capability to perform agent-less monitoring as well. Some of the things we used SiteScope for (url monitoring, log file monitoring, etc.) we were able to transition into dynaTrace allowing us to get rid of SiteScope altogether due to it's ability to develop custom plugins which allows you to really do a lot of extra things that aren't available out of the box which I take advantage of everyday.
Thank you very much to one and all.
Sorry, don't really have a lot of exposure to either of the products.
Mark,
Sitescope is a bottum up (technical) monitoring tool. It is agentless. Advantages: 1) with a user account/password you can monitor your systems so a fast realization of technical monitoring. 2) you don't have to install an agent (prevent the "not invented by us syndrome" most admins have 3) it provides out of the box monitors for different technologies. You don't have to develop scripts first to enable monitoring 4) it's a perfect tool for setting up performance tests fast, it integrates in Loadrunner (this means that doing analysis is not delayed by importing technical metrics from other parties) 5) you can work independant from other silo's during performance tests. 6) history of metrics. Disadvantage 1) If there is no connectivity between Sitescope and the monitoring object there is no data collected 2) it samples, just like any other monitoring tool and so you miss the reason of time outs.
dynaTrace: is a 3 rd gen diagnostic tool. It's approach is the end user experience (top down approach). So it measures each individual session of each individual end user across the chain and measures where the response times is consumed. From that point you can drill down into the application layer where Sitescope is not able to do any monitoring at all. Sitescope only reaches the OS and Middleware layers, not the application layer. By drill down I mean: into the application code. You know exactly which application code is due to latency, which database calls are executed (SQL query) how many times and how that is related to the overall response time. Since version 5.5 you could also hook up technical metrics like the Windows Resource Counters, Websphere PMI metrics etc. So there is some overlap with Sitescope. dynaTRace is used to deploy across your DTAP and provides one reference point: the end user. There is no fingerpointing/blame game anymore: it gives you 100% grip and control, also in (synmchronous) messaging environments like Tibco. Besides the diagnostic functionality it embodies the ultimate monitoring maturity stack (BAM, Passive Monitoring, Active Monitoring, Technical Monitoring, Logfile monitoring). Minimal instrumenting, it doesn't sample in contradiction to AppDynamics. Besides Java and .NET, an ADK is available to build a custom Agent. Also a z/OS mainframe agent is available. Since version 6.0 (latest version) you can also import Wireshark measurements. dynaTrace hooksup with Gomeze SaaS (Active Monitoring outside customer premises) and DC RUM (Passive monitioring on customer premises infra)
With dynaTrace you save a lot of money regarding the required test cycles to find the root cause. With Sitescope the risk is bigger
It depents on what you customer's demand is: 1) Do you want to monitor only? 2) Do you want to monitor and solve the problem? 3) Is it part of Continuous Delivery?
If 1) there are other alternatives available (Open Source Graphite)
If 2+3 ) dynaTrace
Hi,
SiteScope is an agentless Infrastructure monitoring tool. It has a wide range of monitoring capabilities including Server,DB’s,Middleware,Network and application’s as well. Its very easy to deploy & configure.
Dynatrace is more application level monitoring. Its an agent based solution for java & Net applications. Its able to monitor transactions at thread level with deep drill down capabilities.
The solutioning will be based on the monitoring requirements, scope, cost & scalability.
Thanks,
Raj
The solutions have different purposes. I think it's better to summary both of them.
The HP SiteScope is a tool to monitor infrastructure components without agents. It monitors availability and some performance metrics of infrastructure elements. The metrics can be visualized by service model, so you can see which components are being affected.
dynaTrace monitors the application performance through agents. Applications developed by Java, .NET and PHP and also mobile applications are instrumented by the agents and monitored automatically. The monitoring covers 100% (all) transactions, providing traceability and point the problem. dynaTrace accelerates the troubleshooting, monitors end user experience, increase the collaboration between teams (dev, QA, prod, architectures), monitors business transaction effetivelly and also monitors infrastructure elements.
Regards,
Monica