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We performed a comparison between OpsRamp and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed OpsRamp vs. Spiceworks Report (Updated: March 2024).
769,236 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The feature that we have found most useful are the dashboards, which can be built in minutes using this solution, allowing multiple products, thresholds, or any given required metric to be seen in a single area.""The most valuable features of OpsRamp include a single pane of glass, event correlation, personalized dashboards, and a single platform solution.""The most valuable feature of this solution in my experience, is that the available reporting is quite accurate.""The feature we found most valuable in OpsRamp is alert generation because whenever there is any kind of spike on any virtual machine, the solution generates alerts based on the thresholds we implemented. We have integrated our ideas and tools with OpsRamp, so alerts are generated, then we notify the customers. That's the main feature we like about OpsRamp because we don't have to monitor each resource. Instead, OpsRamp does the monitoring for us, and it generates the alerts based on the thresholds.""The technical support is fantastic, and they are fast to respond.""The most valuable feature of OpsRamp is the creation of the dashboards of the infrastructure for the CPU memory and SQL servers. Additionally, URL monitoring through Selenium scripting and the availability dashboard is useful.""It greatly assists small and medium-sized businesses in using the ITSM, alerting, and monitoring features.""Predictive analysis is a valued feature."

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"If you're in the market for a low-cost service desk system, Spiceworks is a good software solution to start out with, especially when it comes to startups and those organizations that don't currently have any existing service desk software in place.""The solution is easy to use and easy to manage.""Tickets by e-mail, with actions by hastag.""The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization.""Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product.""The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient.""The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space.""It shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know up front."

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Cons
"The function to search any particular device within this solution needs to be improved. Currently, the solution develops a lag when a search, or a comparison, is being carried out.""What's lacking in OpsRamp is process automation, and if there is, I wish there could be more of it, other than just spikes, or it would be better if the alerts can be generated based on different matrices. That option is absent in OpsRamp at the moment, and it would be valuable if that could be provided in the solution, especially if there's any kind of security issue in the VM.""OpsRamp could improve the critical alerts. We have been receiving some false alerts when monitoring. For example, the alert shows the site is down, but when we try to do manual access to the URL, it's accessible.""We have 55 AVDs, and patches might roll out to 32-35 initially, with the rest taking a month or so. OpsRamp can't detect them all directly. Since clients want patches applied as soon as possible, we manually patch those remaining devices.""An area of improvement would be application monitoring.""Automation is currently quite complex and needs to be improved.""OpsRamp cannot be scaled for big and large company deployments.""We would like this solution to be developed into a full CMP tool, so that we are able to use a single product for all of our cloud management needs."

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"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right.""They've also tried to integrate it with social logins, like Twitter and LinkedIn, and that type of login authentication has no place in a corporate application.""One of the biggest ways in which Spiceworks could improve is by developing better and more automated workflows. For example, in another solution called ServiceDesk by ManageEngine, you can have levels of approval in the event that there is a request for new software, or when someone requests a VPN or WiFi connection. This kind of multi-stage approval feature provided by ServiceDesk does not appear to exist in Spiceworks, and it is one of their main shortcomings for me.""Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable.""Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it.""I would like to see more information when drilling down into access permissions, assignments management, or tagging. When I click a note or a device, I should be able to see more details about the router and modem. For example, I want to see the version, downtime, availability, latency, etc. I should have easy access to everything about our assets at a glance.""It would be nice to have remote access to the solution via a tablet. They also need remote control from a PC. Right now, to complete the technical support process, you have to have a tool to access the PC, and check the problems.""Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "You pay it for a year and you'll have full access to the entire platform, not only for monitoring and alerting, you will have access to the entire platform, and whatever technology they develop will be made available to you."
  • "There is an annual licensing fee to use OpsRamp."
  • "I don't have any idea about the licensing cost for OpsRamp, but I just know that its pricing is based on the resource count for each tenant."
  • "OpsRamp is a cost-effective solution."
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  • "The product is free! Get it now."
  • "It's free."
  • "It might be about $300 annually for a bigger company. If you pay annually, it's better and cheaper."
  • "Seeing that it is a low-cost solution, I would advise you to go ahead with Spiceworks and experiment with it to see if you can get things working properly, especially if you currently don't have any existing service desk software in place."
  • "The tool is cheap."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in the performance of the product. The main problem is with patch management. The actual problem we're facing is with the patch management feature. It's not real-time… more »
    Top Answer:The solution is easy to use and easy to manage.
    Top Answer:The GUI must be improved. The GUI looks old-fashioned. The vendor must do some web development for it.
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    Overview

    OpsRamp is a leading cloud-based digital IT operations management platform. The solution allows your organization to leverage hybrid observability, process automation, and machine learning to modernize IT operations. OpsRamp can handle the speed, scope, and scale of modern IT and can help you drive productivity and business value. In addition, it can help your business manage, monitor, and consolidate your point tools and applications.

    OpsRamp Features

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

    • Modern infrastructure monitoring: OpsRamp provides end-to-end visibility across applications, data centers, public clouds, point tools, and more.
    • Intelligent incident management: With this OpsRamp feature, you gain better problem identification, impact analysis, and first response for incidents with a streamlined process. This leads to proactive resolution and automated remediation that natively integrates with your ITSM tools.
    • Modern IT operations management: OpsRamp can help you consolidate your multiple point tools with its modern, SaaS-based IT operations platform. The solution can combine artificial intelligence, hybrid infrastructure monitoring, incident remediation, and service and topology mapping, so it can easily evolve with your organization
    • Service-centric AIOps: OpsRamp gives you the ability to examine your incidents, establish a tight feedback loop between your different teams, and reduce alert floods. Additionally, the solution enables your organization to deliver quick resolutions by using OpsQ, its artificial intelligence-powered event management engine.
    • Cloud migration: OpsRamp is a true multi-tenant, multi-tier SaaS platform that helps you move more applications and workloads to the cloud faster.
    • Curated dashboards: By using OpsRamp, IT teams can build curated dashboards using PromQL queries. A central dashboard repository can also be created if needed, and dashboards can be reused for shared IT services as necessary.
    • Topology maps: With OpsRamp’s service-aware topology maps, you are able to keep track of your entire hybrid IT infrastructure, enabling you to troubleshoot issues by using real-time dependencies for hybrid services.

    OpsRamp Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing OpsRamp. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Autodiscovery: OpsRamp auto-discovers multi-cloud and on-premises infrastructure across your IT environment and maps it to your IT services.
    • Multi-cloud telemetry and real-time events: The solution captures multi-cloud telemetry and real-time events as they occur so that your organization is able to make data-driven decisions by using the right performance and consumption insights.
    • Take action faster: OpsQ, the solution’s AIOps event management engine, drives faster incident resolution and helps reduce MTTD/MTTR of business-critical services.
    • Improved efficiency: OpsRamp helps deliver IT operations as a service. With the platform, you can automate workloads, manage multi-cloud costs, and see your IT operations become more efficient.
    • Flexible integrations: With OpsRamp, you do not have to get rid of your existing tools. The OpsRamp platform can consolidate them all into one contextual view using the metrics that matter most.
    • Monitoring integration support: OpsRamp delivers monitoring integration support for more than 150 cloud services across the leading three cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
    From network inventory and network monitoring to help desk software, and mobile device management (MDM) to cloud services detection, Spiceworks helps you manage everything about your IT workday from one easy place.
    Sample Customers
    Epsilon, CloudBrix, GreenPages, NIIT Technologies
    Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Symantec, Webroot, EMC, Pertino
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Insurance Company8%
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    Manufacturing Company16%
    Construction Company10%
    Educational Organization6%
    Transportation Company6%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government7%
    University7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise33%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise21%
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    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise49%
    Buyer's Guide
    OpsRamp vs. Spiceworks
    March 2024
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    OpsRamp is ranked 18th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 10 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 33rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews. OpsRamp is rated 7.8, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpsRamp writes "Automates Azure resource monitoring and inventory management but slow with real-time patch status ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". OpsRamp is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Datadog, SolarWinds NPM, LogicMonitor and Moogsoft, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. See our OpsRamp vs. Spiceworks report.

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