Dynatrace vs OpenText SiteScope comparison

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Dynatrace and OpenText are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Dynatrace is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.8, while OpenText is ranked #15 with an average rating of 9.2. Dynatrace holds a 4.9% mindshare in APM, compared to OpenText’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Dynatrace users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

OpenText SiteScope and Dynatrace are robust monitoring solutions. Users express greater satisfaction with the features and extensive functionalities of Dynatrace despite OpenText SiteScope's competitive edge in pricing and support. Dynatrace's capabilities often justify its higher cost.

What features are offered by OpenText SiteScope in comparison to Dynatrace?

Users value OpenText SiteScope for its comprehensive monitoring capabilities and easy configuration. Dynatrace is praised for its advanced AI-driven analytics and real-time monitoring features. OpenText SiteScope is known for its scalable architecture, while Dynatrace excels with enhanced automation and superior data insights.

What areas of improvement can be found in OpenText SiteScope in comparison to Dynatrace?

OpenText SiteScope users suggest better integration capabilities, a more intuitive system, and enhanced cloud support. Dynatrace users indicate that the learning curve is steep and ask for simplified configurations and better out-of-the-box integrations. Both products need improvements, but Dynatrace's complexity is more frequently cited.

How is the ease of deployment and customer service of OpenText SiteScope in comparison to Dynatrace?

OpenText SiteScope users report straightforward deployment and efficient customer service. Dynatrace users find deployment more complex but receive responsive and helpful support. OpenText SiteScope's simpler deployment process gives it an advantage.

What setup costs and ROI can be seen with OpenText SiteScope in comparison to Dynatrace?

OpenText SiteScope users appreciate the lower setup costs and better perceived ROI. Dynatrace users feel that despite higher setup costs, the long-term ROI is justified by its advanced features and capabilities. Dynatrace users find the higher price worthwhile due to its comprehensive functionality.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

363

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (7th), Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (1st), AI Observability (3rd)

OpenText SiteScope

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 4.9%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText SiteScope is 1.3%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dynatrace	4.9%
OpenText SiteScope	1.3%
Other	93.8%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Q&A Highlights

it_user144834

Works

Dec 02, 2015

Differences between SiteScope and dynaTrace?

SiteScope is more of an ITOM tool, in my opinion. Comparing to a true APM tool, SiteScope is lacking on several fronts. Comparing to Dynatrace APM, it doesn't even come close to matching on most fronts.

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Manish Indupuri

senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

AI-driven insights have reduced downtime and improved cross-team collaboration

We encountered some challenges while using Dynatrace. Although the initial setup was smooth, fine-tuning alert thresholds and custom metrics took some time. Another challenge was that Dynatrace charges based on host units, so we had to carefully plan our agent deployments. The licensing model is expensive. Additionally, the complexity of setup is an issue. While OneAgent and auto-discover services are powerful, the setup is more complex compared to other tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. These integrations are simple and basic, but Dynatrace setup requires more complexity based on the environment. For new users wanting to use Dynatrace, it is difficult. However, the AI-related solutions and metrics took us to the next level for identifying and fixing things. Dynatrace requires an agent for operation. OneAgent is powerful, but it is also resource-heavy. On lightweight nodes or older systems, the agent can slightly impact performance. If Dynatrace could implement a lightweight agent behavior, we could make things faster. Additionally, if Dynatrace could add a long-term retention policy so that we could store more data and find fine-grained details, that would help us. While Dynatrace managed edition supports on-premises deployment, the SaaS version depends on cloud connectivity. For highly regulated or air-gapped environments, setup and updates can be challenging. Although the initial setup is smooth, if someone wants to fine-tune it and fully understand the tool end-to-end, it could be tricky.

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Hosney Osman

Technical Solution Architect at Vodafone

Proactive monitoring has reduced response time and has improved capacity planning accuracy

Regarding areas for improvement, there may be minor issues, but I have not faced any significant issues with OpenText SiteScope because I have a team that uses this product daily. As a monitoring dashboard user, I do not have any negative feedback. A feature that could be added is direct integration with a ticketing tool, as it would help operation teams directly detect alarms and alerts happening in our infrastructure. Direct integration with a ticketing tool such as Remedy would be a good feature. OpenText SiteScope has some limitations, especially with integration between OpenText SiteScope and Remedy, which must be done through middle software. There are also limitations for cloud monitoring as well as for Docker and Kubernetes.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features for me are the dashboard panels because they enable you to monitor multiple applications in one single site."

"It will allow us to eventually become more proactive when problems start arising. We can see them before they happen and address them before there is any impact to our customers."

"Dynatrace is a 21st century APM tool designed and developed keeping next generation technologies in mind."

"Dynatrace has positively impacted our organization by helping us reduce downtime, as it was much higher before using Dynatrace, and we are now able to minimize downtime for the servers and applications and easily trace and diagnose issues at the infrastructure level using Dynatrace, which is definitely helpful for enterprises using IT systems."

"The best part of Dynatrace is that the tool is very lightweight and very easy to install."

"Dynatrace positively impacts our organization because it is a unified monitoring solution that centralizes the performance of infrastructure, application, and database."

"Dynatrace has positively impacted my organization because reporting is ongoing and constantly evolving to adapt to the new technologies that are being introduced, such as AI and other standard protocols of reporting and metadata."

"The observability provided by Dynatrace is extremely valuable."

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"SiteScope is very intuitive and we've been able to accomplish what we want very quickly and efficiently compared to IBM."

"Being able to do your queries from a single location and being able to nest all your monitors within folders is valuable."

"SiteScope is deployed on our network perimeter, and gives our operations teams an end user perspective of service availability."

"The products have been able to deliver the service to our business, which is to ensure that the applications that depend on our servers are always available."

"VM monitoring is pretty good showing good visualizations of how VMs are operating within the context of all the VMs running on the same hypervisor."

"The monitoring capabilities have no limit; whatever you can imagine, you can monitor, even using URL monitors, database query monitors, and formula composite monitors, which are not common in other tools."

"Simple deployment: The deployment uses protocols such as NetBios, SSH, WMI, SNMP, which means that any device with any of these protocols will be monitored."

"They can create workflows for approval processes, which is very useful to support paperless digitalization, allowing effective collaboration between many parties including approvers, reviewers, and engineering documents being signed, annotated, and marked up using this system."

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Cons

"Make the Web UI more robust. Last time I used the web interface, it was still pretty crude."

"There are a few problems with our Mobile App's Dynatrace Libraries."

"I was hands on in the setup of the solution. Initially, it seemed a little daunting."

"Enterprise application monitoring for synthetic, as is, only captures http/https transactions."

"The thread traceability is something that needs improvement."

"One thing that would help it tighter integration with DCRUM. It's somewhat difficult to drill down and see everything, but I think that's in the future versions. We just haven't seen that yet."

"It was difficult to initially use the solution, how to use it and where to navigate."

"Dashboards and monitoring capabilities can be improved for monitoring applications in Azure. In Azure, it would be cool to be able to monitor network consumption as well as flow communication."

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"Micro Focus SiteScope is a little slow to load when I go to load it up, and it's not as intuitive as some of the other programs, such as SolarWinds."

"We'll probably remove SiteScope shortly because we've been using another monitoring tool in production. SiteScope is just not something we use very much of any more."

"The tool needs to support new technologies like Kubernetes. It also needs to improve scalability."

"OpenText SiteScope has some limitations, especially with integration between OpenText SiteScope and Remedy, which must be done through middle software."

"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."

"We'd like a uniform interface for monitoring our system, since that's the purpose of SiteScope."

"I think that the scalability needs to be worked on a bit. We can scale fine horizontally, but we’d like to scale less horizontal and be more compact."

"There is a need to enhance the reporting feature in OpenText SiteScope. Reporting related to performance information for historical data needs improvement to provide better reporting related to application availability and end node availability."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The only limitation with scaling to cloud-native environments is licensing. It all depends on how many DEM units you're willing to license. The more of DEM units that you purchase, the more user data you can collect."

"The pricing is a bit on the higher end."

"Make sure your leadership buy-in is in place. Ensure leadership understands that an APM solution is a fairly expensive, so they know what they are getting into."

"The product is pricey, but it is feature-rich, which is why we probably haven't looked away from it."

"Its price is quite high. Although it is worth it, it would be better if its price is reduced. They base their prices around licensing. Their prices are based on agent licensing and consumption licensing. Both of these can be a bit cheaper, but if they are the best in the market, as I consider them to be, I assume that their prices will be higher. They are delivering the product for that price."

"I have not been able to observe more than 1% overhead, despite Dynatrace saying that it can be slightly higher in some situations."

"It is quite expensive for startups."

"I think the pricing is at a fair value for what it is."

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"The product's pricing should be lower since there are many open-source products that can do the same job with better user interfaces. The tool's pricing is yearly and you need to pay for support."

"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."

"The pricing or licensing cost for Micro Focus SiteScope is often bundled with other things, so the cost for each individual would be difficult to calculate. Pricing could be $2,000,000 a year. My company pays for technical support because it's part of the contract with Micro Focus SiteScope. You buy the licenses, but you're also paying for the support. With Nagios, it's much more bare-bones as far as paying for licenses and the software itself, and my company didn't have to use as much Nagios support yet in one or two years because there weren't too many problems using Nagios, and it's much more cost-effective, so that's one of the reasons why my company is migrating to Nagios from Micro Focus SiteScope."

"SiteScope licensing can be node based-or monitor-based. I would recommend for node-based licensing."

"I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten on a scale where one is cheap and ten is expensive."

"Depending on your requirements, there are two licensing models available. A simple point model, or an endpoint model."

"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."

"You have to pay for their "solution templates". Other tools do not charge you for knowledge-based monitoring bundles."

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Answers from the Community

it_user144834

Works

Dec 2, 2015

Differences between SiteScope and dynaTrace?

2 out of 10 answers

it_user144621

Consultant with 201-500 employees

Aug 5, 2014

The solutions have different purposes. I think it's better to summary both of them. The HP SiteScope is a tool to monitor infrastructure components without agents. It monitors availability and some performance metrics of infrastructure elements. The metrics can be visualized by service model, so you can see which components are being affected. dynaTrace monitors the application performance through agents. Applications developed by Java, .NET and PHP and also mobile applications are instrumented by the agents and monitored automatically. The monitoring covers 100% (all) transactions, providing traceability and point the problem. dynaTrace accelerates the troubleshooting, monitors end user experience, increase the collaboration between teams (dev, QA, prod, architectures), monitors business transaction effetivelly and also monitors infrastructure elements. Regards, Monica

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it_user142650

Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 5, 2014

Hi, SiteScope is an agentless Infrastructure monitoring tool. It has a wide range of monitoring capabilities including Server,DB’s,Middleware,Network and application’s as well. Its very easy to deploy & configure. Dynatrace is more application level monitoring. Its an agent based solution for java & Net applications. Its able to monitor transactions at thread level with deep drill down capabilities. The solutioning will be based on the monitoring requirements, scope, cost & scalability. Thanks, Raj

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Construction Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	81
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	303

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?

The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...

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What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...

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Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope?

The licensing scheme for Micro Focus tools is reasonable, and more affordable. It's seen as medium or de-receivable.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope?

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What is your primary use case for Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope?

OpenText SiteScope has a lot of use cases including monitoring websites, monitoring URLs, monitoring infrastructure resources like CPU, hard disk, and memory usage, and customized monitoring script...

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Overview

Dynatrace is advancing observability for today’s digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward. To learn more about how Dynatrace can help your business, visit www.dynatrace.com, visit our blog and follow us on LinkedIn and X @dynatrace.

Dynatrace

OpenText SiteScope provides agentless monitoring of infrastructure and applications, offering an intuitive experience with comprehensive solutions for managing APIs, URLs, and log files. It's designed for those seeking ease of use and flexibility without the need for server agents.

SiteScope is known for its agentless architecture that facilitates seamless monitoring across a range of technologies including AWS, VMware, and APIs. Users benefit from ready-to-use templates and an intuitive dashboard. Despite its flexibility, SiteScope has challenges with integration and modern features like cloud and DevOps monitoring. The Java interface is slow and setup can be cumbersome, with costly licensing and room for improvement in reporting and scalability.

What are the key features of OpenText SiteScope?

Agentless Architecture: Eliminates the need for server agents, minimizing intrusion.
Ready-to-Use Templates: Simplifies monitoring setup across different environments.
Comprehensive Monitoring: Supports server, database, URL, and API monitoring.
Integration Capabilities: Works with AWS, VMware, and other technologies.
Intuitive Dashboard: Provides easy-to-understand data visualization.

What benefits and ROI can be expected?

Cost Efficiency: Agentless setup reduces operational costs.
Flexibility: Supports multiple technologies and environments.
Time Management: Predefined templates save setup time.
Performance Assurance: Ensures consistent performance with synthetic monitoring.
Operational Insight: Enhances decision-making through comprehensive data visualization.

OpenText SiteScope is implemented in industries like healthcare and government organizations for maintaining system performance and uptime. It supports monitoring across platforms, including Linux, Windows, and VMware, enabling users to address infrastructure and application monitoring needs without agent-related challenges.

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TD Bank, Zurich North America, Accenture, Macquarie, United Airlines, Raymond James, BT, Vodafone, Air France-KLM, TELUS, American Airlines, Air Canada, ADT, Virgin Money

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