OpenText SiteScope vs Splunk Observability Cloud comparison

OpenText and Splunk are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. OpenText is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.8, while Splunk is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.7. OpenText holds a 0.6% mindshare in APM, compared to Splunk’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

OpenText SiteScope

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 19, 2025

OpenText SiteScope and Splunk Observability Cloud compete in IT infrastructure and application monitoring. Splunk Observability Cloud has the upper hand due to its advanced features and comprehensive solution.

Features: OpenText SiteScope provides efficient real-time monitoring without the need for agent installation, supports diverse virtualization technologies, and offers built-in solution templates and common APIs for quick configuration and integration. Splunk Observability Cloud delivers a unified monitoring and troubleshooting platform, seamless integration with various data sources, powerful analytics capabilities, real-time insights across cloud and on-prem solutions, and extensive visualization options through customizable dashboards.

Room for Improvement: OpenText SiteScope could enhance its user interface for easier navigation, improve advanced analytics capabilities, and provide more integration options with third-party tools. Splunk Observability Cloud might focus on simplifying initial deployment, reducing operational costs, and offering more straightforward reporting tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Deployment of OpenText SiteScope is generally straightforward, backed by efficient customer support for a smooth configuration process. Splunk Observability Cloud offers robust support, although its extensive capabilities can complicate initial setup.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText SiteScope presents a predictable pricing model, seen as cost-effective for short-term needs. Despite a higher setup cost, Splunk Observability Cloud provides substantial long-term ROI through its comprehensive insights and efficiency improvements.

To learn more, read our detailed OpenText SiteScope vs. Splunk Observability Cloud Report (Updated: June 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText SiteScope

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

18th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Splunk Observability Cloud

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (6th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (8th), Container Management (7th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of OpenText SiteScope is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Observability Cloud is 1.9%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

Achieve seamless incident response with valuable monitoring capabilities and reliable alerts

There are multiple features related to OpenText SiteScope monitoring that I have found to be very useful, such as SSL monitoring. If SSL is present as a file in a server, then OpenText SiteScope is a very effective tool to monitor when that certificate expires. It provides comprehensive information related to SSL certificates and log monitoring. If any kind of required keyword monitoring is present in the log file, OpenText SiteScope has excellent functionality for monitoring. It is very easy to configure and obtain the correct information related to end-user requirements. The agentless monitoring feature of OpenText SiteScope is particularly impressive and easy to configure and gather information from. According to the operations team perspective, there is no impact related to resource management from the agentless monitoring. It demonstrates very low resource consumption related to its functionality.

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Lakshmi Padaga

Java Developer at U.S. Bank

Collaborates performance metrics with log data to pinpoint the exact cause of issues and offers error detection

Splunk APM is a robust tool with many capabilities. There are always areas for potential improvement to enhance its functionality and user experience. For Splunk APM, there could be simplified navigation, like streamlining the user interface to make navigation more intuitive for our users, especially those new to APM, which can enhance usability. We can provide more customization options for dashboards and visualizations to help users tailor the platform to their specific needs. There could be more integration capabilities with a wider range of third-party tools and platforms would also be beneficial. By focusing on these areas, Splunk APM can enhance its value proposition, improve user satisfaction, and better meet the evolving needs of organizations monitoring their application performance.

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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

"It has multiple monitors that can be deployed OOTB, which includes basic system monitors for CPU, Disk, Memory, NIC's, etc."

"It's a very flexible product so you can run a script out of it, even straight out of the box."

"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."

"Has a simple setup. It can be up and running within hours."

"SiteScope has built-in flat file DB, hence it removes the dependency of an external DB for higher stability."

"The URL monitoring is excellent."

"The product's readymade templates are perfect. It supports us a lot when we don't have much experience with the product. The templates offers us direction to proceed."

"It's easy to template standard monitoring configurations, and automate monitoring configuration."

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"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."

"Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) has one great advantage in that if they have SAP users, they can monitor their SAP applications."

"It has been beneficial for our IT infrastructure."

"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to customize dashboards based on my queries or any other customization I may need."

"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."

"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."

"The most valuable feature in this solution is the log searching."

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Cons

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

"It should improve its integrations with various tools, especially service management tools."

"While working with OpenText, I noticed sometimes teams refuse intervention due to compliance issues."

"In terms of issues with Micro Focus SiteScope, some that we've run into were unintended, for example, extra executions of monitors and some false alerts when there were problems connecting to endpoints or there were issues with the application that sometimes resulted in false positives. We had a few issues with the way time zones were configured when the system time differed from the time indicated during the monitoring, but those were just little things that weren't too bad. As far as the limitations of Micro Focus SiteScope, the types of scripting files that can be executed are rather limited unless you go to some third-party plugins. These are the areas for improvement in the solution."

"We have four or five data centers around North America where we have it deployed into a single or a two-server primary backup type of deployment. All those are made available under a single GUI provided by Micro Focus that allows you to put them all together. A room for improvement would be an appliance or a server that would manage all of our other servers so that I don't have to remember to log on to all different servers and data centers. I could manage them from a single location."

"It may lack some features other products in the category have like more detailed transaction tracking."

"While working with OpenText, I noticed sometimes teams refuse intervention due to compliance issues."

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

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"It would be beneficial to have more enhanced features with capabilities to adapt more integrated applications. Improvements in dashboard configuration, customization, and artificial intelligence functionalities are desired."

"In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other solutions."

"Splunk could be better integrated with configuration manager solutions so we can automatically resolve issues without human interference."

"There's no standard use case available where you can see the utilization of the number of use cases I have."

"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."

"One thing I recently ran into was that the logs on the server most often get Gzipped after they have been rotated. We found that we were not monitoring some of the things, so we had to go back and pull them in. Right now, it pulls one at a time, untars it, or unzips it, so I cannot look at the entire history. There can be an improvement in that area."

"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."

"The cost needs to be re-examined. It's extremely expensive to run. It's also expensive to expand. That's the number one complaint all of my customers have when it comes to Splunk. It's way too expensive compared to other solutions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

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

"Licensing is a little steep."

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

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

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

"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."

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"It is expensive."

"The product is a bit expensive considering the competition but the company may negotiate the price."

"It appears to be expensive compared to competitors."

"The pricing is based on several factors, including the scale of deployment."

"Splunk's infrastructure monitoring costs can be high because our billing is based on data volume measured in terabytes, rather than the number of devices being monitored."

"Splunk APM is expensive."

"Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable."

"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

32%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope?

The most valuable feature of SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring.

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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?

Integration related to other applications with OpenText SiteScope is effective, as we are using both functionalities in our environment. The integration for other applications related to alerts and...

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What do you like most about SignalFx?

The most valuable feature is dashboard creation.

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What needs improvement with SignalFx?

Regarding dashboard customization, while Splunk has many dashboard building options, customers sometimes need to create specific dashboards, particularly for applicative metrics such as Java and pr...

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What is your primary use case for SignalFx?

The solution involves observability in general, such as Application Performance Monitoring, and generally addresses digital applications, web applications, sites, and mobile applications. I worked ...

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Also Known As

Micro Focus SiteScope, HPE SiteScope, SiteScope

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM), Splunk Synthetic Monitoring

Overview

OpenText SiteScope is an agentless monitoring program that tracks the availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures such as servers, network devices and services, applications and application components, virtualization software, operating systems, and other IT enterprise components.

OpenText SiteScope is an autonomous hybrid IT monitoring system that can monitor more than 100 different types of IT components in real time, thanks to a lightweight and highly customizable remote access architecture.

With OpenText SiteScope, IT teams can get the data they need to keep on top of problems and eliminate bottlenecks before they become major concerns.

OpenText SiteScope can reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by utilizing agentless technology, which eliminates the need to install and monitor agents on each box. Manual activities can be automated, and teams can save time and effort by using pre-packaged solution templates.

OpenText SiteScope Features

OpenText SiteScope has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Broad functionality built on expertise: OpenText SiteScope's architecture is scalable and supports a broad range of functions, including data collecting, alerting, event management, and reporting. Data is collected via remote access, which eliminates the need for agents to be deployed and maintained on monitored nodes. OpenText SiteScope connects to systems as a remote user via the central server, which supports JMX, SNMP, HTTP, SSH, NetBIOS, and WMI.

Monitors legacy and modern environments: OpenText SiteScope comes with more than 100 built-in monitors that track things like utilization, response time, use, and resource availability.
- Cloud: You can monitor virtual servers and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS-hosted applications can provide data to Amazon CloudWatch, which can be used for auto-scaling, reporting, and alerting.
- Virtualization: OpenText SiteScope supports VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Oracle/Sun virtualization technologies. Monitor Docker clusters, nodes, containers, and workloads.

Flexibility with configuration: By adding or deleting specific monitors, you can adapt to dynamic changes in data center configuration.

Templates for solutions: The template database is based on best practices for monitoring complex application settings with the least amount of time and effort. The templates include built-in domain experience of specialized monitors, default metrics and thresholds, proactive testing, and best practices for a given application or monitoring component.

Notifications, alerts, and reports: Email, SNMP traps, HTTP post, and database alerts are all supported. Administrators receive alerts based on defined thresholds and schedules.

Flexibility in user management: Using LDAP or an internal management solution, define group-level permissions, construct user roles, and assign security groups depending on role. Extensive WS (Web Service)-based API that automates numerous management situations without the need for the SiteScope UI.

Integrations with SiteScope: OpenText SiteScope not only offers a number of benefits on its own, but it can also be linked with a number of OpenText and third-party solutions, giving teams the ability to properly integrate their IT operations center.

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Splunk Observability Cloud offers sophisticated log searching, data integration, and customizable dashboards. With rapid deployment and ease of use, this cloud service enhances monitoring capabilities across IT infrastructures for comprehensive end-to-end visibility.

Focused on enhancing performance management and security, Splunk Observability Cloud supports environments through its data visualization and analysis tools. Users appreciate its robust application performance monitoring and troubleshooting insights. However, improvements in integrations, interface customization, scalability, and automation are needed. Users find value in its capabilities for infrastructure and network monitoring, as well as log analytics, albeit cost considerations and better documentation are desired. Enhancements in real-time monitoring and network protection are also noted as areas for development.

What are the key features?

Log Searching: Efficiently search and analyze logs from various sources.
Data Integration: Seamlessly integrate with multiple environments.
Dashboard Customization: Tailor dashboards to specific monitoring needs.
Monitoring Capabilities: Provides comprehensive insights into application performance.
Security Features: Analyze and address security threats across systems.
Visualization Tools: Enhance data analysis and system performance optimization.

Why consider this for ROI?

Comprehensive Visibility: Gain complete insights into IT infrastructure.
Performance Optimization: Improve overall system performance and efficiency.
Rapid Deployment: Quick setup to meet organization demands swiftly.
Enhanced Security: Strengthen security measures through detailed analytics.

In industries, Splunk Observability Cloud is implemented for security management by analyzing logs from detection systems, offering real-time alerts and troubleshooting for cloud-native applications. It is leveraged for machine data analysis, improving infrastructure visibility and supporting network and application performance management efforts.

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Sample Customers

Vodafone Ireland, Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank

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