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We performed a comparison between Alluvio AppResponse 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Alluvio AppResponse vs. OpenText SiteScope Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"It provides us with complete visibility of every packet.""I have found the AppResponse, which is a packet capture solution, very good. It gives you the ability to drill down back in time. You've got all the packets there. You can troubleshoot it later, not immediately. It's very interesting.""Ability to see end to end user, application, server, and network response time and throughput data.""AppResponse is a total solution that gives you end-to-end visibility into applications at all levels, from Layer 1 to Layer 7. We can trace all those sections: physical, IP, transport, presentation, application, etc. It gives us the full picture.""With some APM solutions, it can take a long time to check a periodic report, but you can get all the necessary details quickly with AppResponse.""When it comes to the ability to scale up the product, this is suitable for small medium and large environments,""The most valuable feature is performance monitoring.""The most valuable feature of Alluvio AppResponse is the actual response time for measuring performance."

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"The most valuable feature of OpenText SiteScope is that it is easy to manage and user-friendly.""It's easy to template standard monitoring configurations, and automate monitoring configuration.""It has multiple monitors that can be deployed OOTB, which includes basic system monitors for CPU, Disk, Memory, NIC's, etc.""It's a very flexible product so you can run a script out of it, even straight out of the box.""The most valuable feature of SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring.""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.""The URL monitoring is excellent.""Simplest tool for monitoring servers, web content, databases and other hardware. Its dashboard is really good."

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Cons
"The AI features should be addressed in respect of the analysis and intelligence that must be supported and delivered in the tool to predigest the large amounts of data.""They need to better integrate with products and solutions from different vendors.""Technical support needs to be more responsive.""The pricing is on the higher side of things. If they could lower it, that would be ideal.""The initial setup is straightforward, but you have to know a little about the product. It's not for everybody to just plug and play. If you know how the solution is implemented then it is straightforward.""Alluvio AppResponse should improve its ability to expand across multiple operating systems.""If Alluvio AppResponse reduces its cost, it will be more beneficial for customers to monitor their application and network performance.""Integration between NPM and APM solutions would improve efficiency. There is no agent on the server site related to AppResponse."

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"SiteScope isn't productive if you want to monitor RAM or if you want to monitor some URL.""Sometimes in a huge environment, I think the documentation does not provide the required calculations so you can't know what the required set up should be. You need to test.""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.""We have four or five data centers around North America where we have it deployed into a single or a two-server primary backup type of deployment. All those are made available under a single GUI provided by Micro Focus that allows you to put them all together. A room for improvement would be an appliance or a server that would manage all of our other servers so that I don't have to remember to log on to all different servers and data centers. I could manage them from a single location.""The lack of an agent means that remote monitoring requires multiple firewall ports to be opened.""Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring.""I would be very interested in having transaction traceability included in the product, to give us a better view of what is really going wrong in a particular method and action.""We'd like a uniform interface for monitoring our system, since that's the purpose of SiteScope."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The licensing model is expensive compared to its competitors, but the service it gives to your business, and the data quality, means that it's worth it."
  • "The price is a little bit high, especially because we have to pay an import tax."
  • "The solution is no more expensive than other products."
  • "It is costly for small and medium businesses."
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  • "Licensing is a little steep."
  • "Depending on your requirements, there are two licensing models available. A simple point model, or an endpoint model."
  • "SiteScope licensing can be node based-or monitor-based. I would recommend for node-based licensing."
  • "You have to pay for their "solution templates". Other tools do not charge you for knowledge-based monitoring bundles."
  • "When Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope has introduced approximately eight years ago and there was not very much competition making the price high. However, when comparing the price of Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope now to other tools, they should reduce the price. It is similar to a legacy tool at this point."
  • "It is expensive. I don't like its licensing. I don't like anything where you have to license it by individual licenses. I'm not a fan of that, but that's just me."
  • "The pricing or licensing cost for Micro Focus SiteScope is often bundled with other things, so the cost for each individual would be difficult to calculate. Pricing could be $2,000,000 a year. My company pays for technical support because it's part of the contract with Micro Focus SiteScope. You buy the licenses, but you're also paying for the support. With Nagios, it's much more bare-bones as far as paying for licenses and the software itself, and my company didn't have to use as much Nagios support yet in one or two years because there weren't too many problems using Nagios, and it's much more cost-effective, so that's one of the reasons why my company is migrating to Nagios from Micro Focus SiteScope."
  • "The product's pricing should be lower since there are many open-source products that can do the same job with better user interfaces. The tool's pricing is yearly and you need to pay for support."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Alluvio AppResponse is the actual response time for measuring performance.
    Top Answer:AppResponse is a little expensive, but the cost depends on your configuration and storage. It was about $200,000 for three years.
    Top Answer:Alluvio AppResponse should improve its ability to expand across multiple operating systems. Alluvio AppResponse should include the ability to monitor Linux servers.
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring.
    Top Answer:I would rate the pricing of SiteScope as a five out of ten in terms of costliness. It is not overly expensive, but there is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness in some areas.
    Top Answer:In terms of improvement, OpenText SiteScop could become a better solution by adding more monitoring templates, like RedScope, to make it easier to track specific technologies. It should also improve… more »
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    Also Known As
    Riverbed AppResponse, OPNET SteelCentral AppResponse, ACE Live, OPNET, AppResponse Xpert
    Micro Focus SiteScope, HPE SiteScope, SiteScope
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    Overview

    Alluvio AppResponse provides fast packet capture and storage that feeds intelligent network and application analysis with fast troubleshooting workflows to speed problem diagnosis and resolution. AppResponse delivers full stack application analysis—from packets to web pages - enabling you observe all network and application interactions as they cross the wire, whether they are encrypted or not. Using powerful, flexible network and application analytics and workflows, AppResponse speeds problem diagnosis and resolution, helping you get to answers fast

    OpenText SiteScope is an agentless monitoring program that tracks the availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures such as servers, network devices and services, applications and application components, virtualization software, operating systems, and other IT enterprise components.

    OpenText SiteScope is an autonomous hybrid IT monitoring system that can monitor more than 100 different types of IT components in real time, thanks to a lightweight and highly customizable remote access architecture.

    With OpenText SiteScope, IT teams can get the data they need to keep on top of problems and eliminate bottlenecks before they become major concerns.

    OpenText SiteScope can reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by utilizing agentless technology, which eliminates the need to install and monitor agents on each box. Manual activities can be automated, and teams can save time and effort by using pre-packaged solution templates.

    OpenText SiteScope Features

    OpenText SiteScope has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Broad functionality built on expertise: OpenText SiteScope's architecture is scalable and supports a broad range of functions, including data collecting, alerting, event management, and reporting. Data is collected via remote access, which eliminates the need for agents to be deployed and maintained on monitored nodes. OpenText SiteScope connects to systems as a remote user via the central server, which supports JMX, SNMP, HTTP, SSH, NetBIOS, and WMI.
    • Monitors legacy and modern environments: OpenText SiteScope comes with more than 100 built-in monitors that track things like utilization, response time, use, and resource availability.

      • Cloud: You can monitor virtual servers and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS-hosted applications can provide data to Amazon CloudWatch, which can be used for auto-scaling, reporting, and alerting.

      • Virtualization: OpenText SiteScope supports VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Oracle/Sun virtualization technologies. Monitor Docker clusters, nodes, containers, and workloads.
    • Flexibility with configuration: By adding or deleting specific monitors, you can adapt to dynamic changes in data center configuration.
    • Templates for solutions: The template database is based on best practices for monitoring complex application settings with the least amount of time and effort. The templates include built-in domain experience of specialized monitors, default metrics and thresholds, proactive testing, and best practices for a given application or monitoring component.
    • Notifications, alerts, and reports: Email, SNMP traps, HTTP post, and database alerts are all supported. Administrators receive alerts based on defined thresholds and schedules.
    • Flexibility in user management: Using LDAP or an internal management solution, define group-level permissions, construct user roles, and assign security groups depending on role. Extensive WS (Web Service)-based API that automates numerous management situations without the need for the SiteScope UI.
    • Integrations with SiteScope: OpenText SiteScope not only offers a number of benefits on its own, but it can also be linked with a number of OpenText and third-party solutions, giving teams the ability to properly integrate their IT operations center.
    Sample Customers
    N11.com, OneMain Financial, China Bank, Halkbank, Kaust
    Vodafone Ireland, Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank
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    Buyer's Guide
    Alluvio AppResponse vs. OpenText SiteScope
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Alluvio AppResponse vs. OpenText SiteScope and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Alluvio AppResponse is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 15 reviews while OpenText SiteScope is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews. Alluvio AppResponse is rated 8.8, while OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Alluvio AppResponse writes "It's a total solution that gives you end-to-end visibility at all levels". 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". Alluvio AppResponse is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, SolarWinds NPM and Dynatrace, whereas OpenText SiteScope is most compared with SCOM, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and BMC TrueSight Operations Management. See our Alluvio AppResponse vs. OpenText SiteScope report.

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