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.
It is not an expensive product if we compare it with similar products in the market like AppDynamics. I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten on a scale where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
Senior monitoring engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jul 11, 2022
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.
If you already have other Micro Focus products, especially the testing tools, then you may already have licenses for Sitescope. Licensing is (typically for Micro Focus) very complex, so speak to your account manager to check. The setup cost is minimal if you already have the hardware and that's reflected in the functionality. There are some great pre-packaged monitoring templates known as "solution templates". These are excellent kickstart ways to accelerate implementation - however, be aware that some of them are licensed separately. If you're considering Sitescope as your sole or primary monitoring tool, I suggest you take a look around - there are better options for you.
Enterprise Monitoring | Information Services at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Feb 17, 2022
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.
Easy to setup, but I’m not able to recommend this product any longer because there hasn’t been any real investment in enhancements that allow for cloud or container monitoring. Apparently they no longer charge for solution templates and I’m not sure how they price the tool. They’ve changed it over the years from “points”, metrics, and monitor count. Not sure how they are selling this tool these days unless it’s to customers looking for an agentless onprem tool with no need to monitor new technologies.
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...
The licensing scheme for Micro Focus tools is reasonable, and more affordable. It's seen as medium or de-receivable.
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.
It is not an expensive product if we compare it with similar products in the market like AppDynamics. I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten on a scale where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
I don't know about the financial details surrounding the solution.
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.
If you already have other Micro Focus products, especially the testing tools, then you may already have licenses for Sitescope. Licensing is (typically for Micro Focus) very complex, so speak to your account manager to check. The setup cost is minimal if you already have the hardware and that's reflected in the functionality. There are some great pre-packaged monitoring templates known as "solution templates". These are excellent kickstart ways to accelerate implementation - however, be aware that some of them are licensed separately. If you're considering Sitescope as your sole or primary monitoring tool, I suggest you take a look around - there are better options for you.
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.
The pricing is the biggest challenge that we face. There are open-source tools that do 90% of what LoadRunner and Micro Focus tools are able to do.
Easy to setup, but I’m not able to recommend this product any longer because there hasn’t been any real investment in enhancements that allow for cloud or container monitoring. Apparently they no longer charge for solution templates and I’m not sure how they price the tool. They’ve changed it over the years from “points”, metrics, and monitor count. Not sure how they are selling this tool these days unless it’s to customers looking for an agentless onprem tool with no need to monitor new technologies.