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    GitLab

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. Differentiators, as described by Gitlab: Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can…

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    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
    GitLabOpenText SiteScope
    Editions & Modules
    GitLab Essential
    $0
    per month per user
    GitLab Premium
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
    $99
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitLabOpenText SiteScope
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GitLabOpenText SiteScope
    Considered Both Products
    GitLab
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    125 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    126 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    81 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    101 Answers
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    Features
    GitLabOpenText SiteScope
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of GitLab and OpenText SiteScope
    Feature
    GitLab
    -
    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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    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Score6.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GitLabOpenText SiteScope
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (142 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GitLabOpenText SiteScope
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GitLab
    GitLab is good if you work a lot with code and do complex repository actions. It gives you a very good overview of what were the states of your branches and the files in them at different stages in time. It's also way easier and more efficient to write pipelines for CI\CD. It's easier to read and it's easier to write them. It takes fewer clicks to achieve the same things with GitLab than it does for competitor products.
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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
    GitLab
    • GitLab excels in managing code versions, allowing easy tracking of changes, branch management, and merging contributions.
    • It helps maintain code stability and reliability, saving time and effort in the development or research workflow.
    • Powerful code review features, enabling collaboration and feedback among team members.
    • Robust project management features, including issue tracking, kanban boards, and milestones.
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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
    GitLab
    • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
    • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
    • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
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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
    GitLab
    I really feel the platform has matured quite faster than others, and it is always at the top of its game compared to the different vendors like GitHub, Azure pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins. Since it provides, agents, CI/CD, repository hosting, Secrets management, user management, and Single Sign on; among other features
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    GitLab
    I find it easy to use, I haven't had to do the integration work, so that's why it is a 9/10, cause I can't speak to how easy that part was or the initial set up, but day to day use is great!
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    OpenText
    Very straightforward and easy to use once you get past the short learning curve.
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    Reliability and Availability
    GitLab
    I've never had experienced outages from GItlab itself, but regarding the code I have deployed to Gitlab, the history helps a lot to trace the cause of the issue or performing a rollback to go back to a working version
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    OpenText
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    Performance
    GitLab
    GItlab reponsiveness is amazing, has never left me IDLE. I've never had issues even with complex projects. I have not experienced any issues when integrating it with agents for example or SSO
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    OpenText
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    Support Rating
    GitLab
    At this point, I do not have much experience with Gitlab support as I have never had to engage them. They have documentation that is helpful, not quite as extensive as other documentation, but helpful nonetheless. They also seem to be relatively responsive on social media platforms (twitter) and really thrived when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    GitLab
    Gitlab seems more cutting-edge than GitHub; however, its AI tools are not yet as mature as those of CoPilot. It feels like the next-generation product, so as we selected a tool for our startup, we decided to invest in the disruptor in the space. While there are fewer out-of-the-box templates for Gitlab, we have never discovered a lack of feature parity.
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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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    Scalability
    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    OpenText
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    Return on Investment
    GitLab
    • GitLab cut down our spent on container, package and infrastructure registry
    • Best thing is we can now have everything in single platform which cost effective too
    • Quality of support is really good and they do have emergency support team as well which is great
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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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