Compuware Strobe (discontinued) vs. AlertSite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Compuware Strobe, later acquired by BMC, was a performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications used to pinpoint application inefficiencies causing excessive CPU consumption. The product has reached end of life.N/A
AlertSite
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
AlertSite, from SmartBear Software, is a website monitoring and application performance management application offering real time alerting with root-cause analytics and robust reporting.N/A
Pricing
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)AlertSite
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)AlertSite
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)AlertSite
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
7.2
1 Ratings
6% below category average
AlertSite
7.6
4 Ratings
0% below category average
Application monitoring7.01 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Database monitoring6.01 Ratings6.53 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.01 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Predictive capabilities6.01 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Application performance management console8.01 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Collaboration tools8.01 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.01 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.01 Ratings7.53 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring7.01 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring7.01 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.01 Ratings8.03 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery7.01 Ratings7.53 Ratings
User Ratings
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)AlertSite
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
2.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)AlertSite
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Compuware Strobe is very essential if you are working in a multi-system environment to constantly measure the activity of your applications. My setup involves deploying bots to perform repetitive tasks. With Compuware Strobe, I'm able to conduct early tests on codes that reduce by great margins performance issues on the development cycle; It's why I'm making a good recommendation for it.
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SmartBear
AlertSite is used in our organization to monitor our website and web applications in real-time to collect the super important metrics reflecting web page load time but from the user end (E2E) and that approaches helps us to understand what our website is experiencing in real-time.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Runs detailed analysis on captured data to aid in tuning applications.
  • It's possible to run early tests on the bots' codes to detect early performance issues.
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SmartBear
  • The Deja-Click Recorder is an excellent tool.
  • Good UI that translates to large NOC screens well.
  • Easy Alerting and Reporting.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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SmartBear
  • Tool is complicated for Alert creation
  • AlertSite GUI need improvement. As compared to Datadog, it needs improvement in GUI
  • While using AlertSite, many times we faced false alerting, they need to take a look at it to improve performance.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
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SmartBear
Reviewing other cost saving options
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Usability
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SmartBear
Pretty good product only issue was cost
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Support Rating
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SmartBear
I've been unable to contact support after several attempts.
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Alternatives Considered
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SmartBear
We moved all of our services to Site24x7 after several years with AlertSite. We looked at Uptrends and Pingdom to name a few whilst evaluating options. Pingdom lacks functionality and Uptrends we found to have quite a steep learning curve. AlertSites platform and in particular the Deja-Click recorder is a standout tool against the other platforms. Sadly the upscaling costs of multi-location transactions can quickly add up.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance.
  • Smoothened robots deployment.
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SmartBear
  • A negative thing is Monitoring locations would have issues and cause false-positive alerts and due to that monitoring team's repetitive work has increased.
  • A positive thing that I have noticed so far is the fact that the AlertSite customers support team is trying to build relationships and go the extra mile to make sure we can overcome any occurring issues and they are quick to respond and provide sufficient guidance for implementing efficiently, and fix products issues.
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