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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apica

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AApica is an observability cost optimization provider helping IT teams gain complete control over their telemetry data economics. Apica Ascent processes all observability data types including metrics, logs, traces, and events while optimizing observability costs.N/A

    OpenText SiteScope

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOpenText's SiteScope is an agentless application performance monitoring tool with hybrid support across a variety of systems and vendors. Sitescope also offers automated workflow and incident identification and remediation capabilities, and rapid installation-to-monitoring processes.N/A
    Pricing
    ApicaOpenText SiteScope
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ApicaOpenText SiteScope
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    ApicaOpenText SiteScope
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Apica and OpenText SiteScope
    Feature
    Apica
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    Ratings
    OpenText SiteScope
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings6.16 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings9.15 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings6.65 Ratings
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    ApicaOpenText SiteScope
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Datadog
    Score8.4 out of 10
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetBrain Technologies
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ApicaOpenText SiteScope
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (11 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    ApicaOpenText SiteScope
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apica
    As I use this for only my area, it is very well suited to what I need it to do. Apica Synthetic monitors two different web applications in a time interval that is easily customizable for uptime and latency. These are critical indicators for a cloud-based point-of-sale system. We need solid uptime and limited latency across the enterprise.
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    OpenText
    SiteScope is definitely well suited in an HP server environment. It is also well suited for virtual server environments. It is also well suited for those who are happy with email and text based message alerting. It may not be appropriate in other environments where monitoring physical components is critical. Because HP SiteScope does not monitor certain physical components, it does fall short of being able to be a "one stop shop solution" in regard to monitoring. It is not well suited for those looking for logic in how alerts are sent and cascade to other people or groups.
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    Pros
    Apica
    • Auto alerts trigger if any issue is identified
    • Graphical representation of the health of applications
    • Good product support from the team
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    OpenText
    • Alerts can be configured as per business requirement.
    • It can take remedial action, when defined for a particular situation.
    • Severity, priority of tickets which are created upon a trigger can be well defined.
    • The teams which need to be alerted can be configured in the tool itself, in case of any event.
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    Cons
    Apica
    • It's very clunky. Infrastructure is large and very difficult to upgrade.
    • SaaS and On-premise versions are different. There is an LDAP integration but users can only be assigned to one group (i.e. department). If you are in 2 departments, you need 2 separate logins.
    • Update: they now offer federated logins
    • It filled a gap in monitoring for us, but we're looking to move on.
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    OpenText
    • Sitescope is particularly used for infrastructure monitoring. Other kinds of monitors cannot be set using HP sitescope.
    • Sitescope cannot have graphs like splunk which is why we have splunk as well which is an additional cost for the company.
    • We can't have a direct regex operations on data inside HP sitescope. We need to have the logs placed as a single log and then do that.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apica
    We trust the results that Apica Synthetic has achieved. Real-time alerting is critical to our clients and with limited resources, we can't handle many false positives; Apica Synthetic is the only solution that provides both of those features.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Apica
    As per my experience while using it. Thanks!
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    OpenText
    Very straightforward and easy to use once you get past the short learning curve.
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    Support Rating
    Apica
    Apica Synthetic is very effective while configuring the account setup for any of the database/UserID.
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    OpenText
    Can't really answer this. Setup was easy and no support has really been used at this point.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apica
    Easy for implementation in our Infrastructure, Easy for troubleshooting the issue and Easy to use as well.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Apica
    We were using different monitoring tools for different requirements (e.g.,Nagios and Checkmk for infrastructure issues) and we were in need of a tool for service and API monitoring for which we were using ThousandEye. But alerts were 60-70% valid irrespective of conditions like network issues. But Apica Synthetic's alert mechanism is a perfect fit for our department. It helped us to reduce unnecessary/false alerts and a number of wrong tickets.
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    OpenText
    SiteScope unified console is a powerful tool for operators to easily detect warnings and alerts grouped by its hierarchical organization with real-time status displaying continuously the whole health map.
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    Return on Investment
    Apica
    • My department is not charged for Apica Synthetic so no ROI, but from a customer service perspective, we can react to an outage and repair it faster than our customers can report the outage.
    • Our vendor's own monitoring tools are not as accurate nor as timely as ours. They rely on us telling them, from Apica Synthetic, that they have an issue.
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    OpenText
    • Sitescope does exactly what it was purchased for. It may take some time to set it up but once its set up it is a rock solid product.
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