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Observability software enables businesses to analyze and evaluate a system's current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics and traces collected from the endpoints distributed within a multi-cloud environment.
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"I went from having no APM solution to having a full-fledged monitoring system in mere minutes. New..."
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Arjun
Founder in US
This information was sourced from New Relic
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
This information was sourced from verified user reviews of New Relic
Pros:
It is a well known software so everyone have heard about it and probably use it. And also there are a lot of tutorials from the website or from community.
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Cons:
The designers and developers are clearly bad or mediocre.
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This information was sourced from New Relic
Who Uses New Relic?
Small to large businesses focused on delivering excellent customer experience, business success, and more.
"We have saved a significant amount of money each month compared to hosting our own ELK stack. ..."
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Doran
Sr Director Infrastructure in US
This information was sourced from Chaossearch
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
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Who Uses Chaossearch?
Businesses generating log data at scale who are paying unnecessarily high prices to current services like Splunk, Sumo Logic & Datadog, while losing...
Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia
, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands, Finland, France, French Guiana, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, St Pierre & Miquelon, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, Türkiye, US Virgin Islands, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
and 68 others
This information was sourced from verified user reviews of Site24x7
Pros:
Low waiting times in getting technical support from them. Lots of tools and features.
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Cons:
As you have lots of settings available, some times you get puzzled were to configure it properly, for instance when setting up notifications groups/teams.
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This information was sourced from Site24x7
Who Uses Site24x7?
Site24x7 is built for small and medium businesses, and caters to job functions that include the business owner/web app administrator, site reliability...
Australia, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico
, Singapore, South Africa, US Virgin Islands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
and 6 others
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany
, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
and 28 others
"My overall experience has been awsome so far. I would rate it 8.5/10.Splunk has been as effective..."
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Subham
Incident responder in India
This information was sourced from Splunk Enterprise
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
This information was sourced from verified user reviews of Splunk Enterprise
Pros:
When you need to store, correlate, and search large amounts of data, especially System Log data, there is no tool that even comes close to Splunk. It's power and flexibility is amazing.
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Cons:
So, first time user it can be difficult to use it.
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This information was sourced from Splunk Enterprise
Who Uses Splunk Enterprise?
AI-powered solutions for security and observability that accelerate detection, investigation and response. Supported by an enterprise-class platform...
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands
, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States
and 4 others
Languages
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
, Traditional Chinese
and 1 others
IT Asset and Configuration Analyst, Service Catalog and Knowledge Manager in Ghana
This information was sourced from AppDynamics
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
This information was sourced from verified user reviews of AppDynamics
Pros:
The user interface so everyone can understand. Especially the graphics showing the flow of network traffic between our various monitored servers is great.
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Cons:
Some of the data that I need gets lost on all of the functions. Curse of the blessing, I guess.
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"I have generated multiple Dashboards for real time analytics of cloud watch logs.
We were able to..."
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Prasoon
Software Engineer in US
This information was sourced from Sumo Logic
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
This information was sourced from verified user reviews of Sumo Logic
Pros:
In addition, you can analyze every log and mine all useful data. It integrates seamlessly with cloud providers and you get the most done with AWS right by your side.
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Cons:
The API integration can be difficult to leverage the more advanced features, such as log monitoring.
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This information was sourced from Sumo Logic
Who Uses Sumo Logic?
Sumo Logic is a cloud log management and metrics monitoring solution used by IT, Security and Development teams across all customer sizes.
"This is a very modern and usefull tool for the aws serverless stack.
It is *very* easy to understand..."
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Avigail
Software Engineer in Israel
This information was sourced from Lumigo
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
This information was sourced from verified user reviews of Lumigo
Pros:
The auto tracing feature is the most amazing feature of this product. It's so simple in a way that it will automatically detect your lambda function and will start tracing.
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Cons:
The website does not support all device sizes.
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This information was sourced from Lumigo
Who Uses Lumigo?
Developers, engineers, and DevOps working in serverless and containerized environments.
"I've been using Elasticsearch since early days, with very different things in mind.
I started with..."
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Filip
Software Engineer in Poland
This information was sourced from Elastic Observability
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
This information was sourced from verified user reviews of Elastic Observability
Pros:
Easy to understand JSON. Tight integration with logstash and the rest of their stack.
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Cons:
While this is probably not unexpected due to Amazon's predatory behavior when it comes to OSS and AWS, it doesn't help customers and the community to have two different projects.
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This information was sourced from Elastic Observability
Who Uses Elastic Observability?
Elastic is built for relevance at scale, easily able to support small businesses, the largest multinationals, and everything in between.
"Metaplane has been great to work with. The team at Metaplane is stellar, and the product fills a..."
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Peter
Head of Data in US
This information was sourced from Metaplane
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
This information was sourced from verified user reviews of Metaplane
Pros:
Surface long-running and expensive queries to allow us to fine-tune usage to provide a better experience for our end users while minimizing cost.
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Cons:
We hesitate to bring more users into Metaplane because their access is full admin control by default.
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This information was sourced from Metaplane
Who Uses Metaplane?
Our target market is data and analytics engineers at mid-market companies with 200 to 1,000 employees.
"Our experience has been good and has helped us catch issues and solve them before anyone notices!"
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Donny
IT Manager in US
This information was sourced from Amazon CloudWatch
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
This information was sourced from verified user reviews of Amazon CloudWatch
Pros:
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service from AWS here you can easily monitor almost all services of AWS that you use and want to monitor, also at a single place that is of great use.
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Cons:
This can be a limitation if you have a hybrid infrastructure or use third-party services.
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This information was sourced from Amazon CloudWatch
Who Uses Amazon CloudWatch?
IT admins, IT managers, Developers, Systems Engineers, Cloud Architects, Cloud Developers, Cloud Infrastructure Security teams, Infrastructure,...
"I love how it is like having the terminal, but all your logs in one place. tail/grep is really all..."
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Diego
VP Engineering in US
This information was sourced from Papertrail
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
This information was sourced from verified user reviews of Papertrail
Pros:
I especially find their search capability impressive since you can enter various keywords to quickly find what you are looking for and troubleshoot root causes.
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Cons:
No built-in analysis feature, we have to export the log manually for analysis.
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This information was sourced from Papertrail
Who Uses Papertrail?
Papertrail is a cloud-based log management tool built to serve DevOps teams of any size who need a real-time view of their aggregated logs for easy...
"Capability to do a full data lineage with great accuracy and manage esoteric use cases."
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Laurent
Global Chief Data Officer in France
This information was sourced from openAudit
Anomaly Detection
Performance Metrics
Activity Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
This information was sourced from openAudit
Who Uses openAudit?
Large companies have a large / heterogeneous / cloud IS - on prem'. Their apprehension is complex, and it is difficult/impossible to make them evolve...
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