What is our primary use case?
We use OpsRamp to set up a digitalized solution within my organization.
We use it for set validations, monitoring automation, noise reduction, operational efficiency, and other similar purposes.
How has it helped my organization?
Event Management and Hybrid IT Infrastructure Monitoring, Alert Reduction, Higher efficiency and reduced complexity by consolidating
multiple tools, Increased Productivity, IT Process Automation
What is most valuable?
Personally, I like their monitoring and alerting tools. I have also used the OpsRamp ITSM tool. It greatly assists small and medium-sized businesses in using the ITSM, alerting, and monitoring features. You can also use patch management. These three features are beneficial. It is also user-friendly.
When I say we're trying to use monitoring and alerting, we use it for hybrid infrastructures and application transaction monitoring within OpsRamp, which could be our organization's internal environment, infrastructure environment, or external infrastructure environment. It's a mix of internal and external factors. Furthermore, we use it for hybrid infrastructure monitoring and application monitoring in general.
What needs improvement?
There is definitely room for improvement. Not every tool, particularly OpsRamp, is 100 percent accurate. There are two features that I personally recommend the OpsRamp team look into.
One example is a mature ITSM product. They currently have an internal ITSM. They also have contracts with third-party vendors such as ServiceNow and Service Desk, where you can integrate those applications into OpsRamp and use ITSM.
OpsRamp has its own ITSM platform that if it could or would improve the performance of utilizing or the maturity of that particular ITSM for change management or incident management, it should really help an individual to kill two birds with one shot.
Purchasing monitoring and alerting licenses allows them to use ITSM without spending the extra money to integrate other tools such as ServiceNow, or Service Desk, for example.
The second area for improvement, in my opinion, is that because they are already cloud-centric, whether it is infrastructure, Azure or AWS, or on-premises platforms, they can create their own self-service portal and tie it up to any cloud in the sense that if I am a vendor who is willing to use any cloud in the future, I can just log into the self-service portal from OpsRamp and go ahead and deploy the resources from the cloud, such as building instances, adding storage, deleting storage, adding security, and so on.
A single one-stop-shop for OpsRamp, a self-service portal where you could go ahead and deploy resources, enable monitoring, and create an ITSM portal for it. And, near the end, you can also make it so the patching is all done. It has been planned to be a one-stop-shop for everything.
I would like to see two things. The first is a self-service portal for the cloud, any cloud deployments, and the second is maturity validation towards ITSM, internalizing OpsRamp TSM. As a result, instead of integrating with more mature tools similar to ServiceNow, people will use OpsRamp.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpsRamp for approximately three and a half years.
We are using version 12.0.
Both Azure and Amazon Web Services users can get assistance from us. We have both cloud versions of it available. These are the SaaS versions that are available and specifically used with Azure and AWS. Currently, it is on a multi-cloud platform.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
When it came to the stability of the tool and technology used for OpsRamp, we had no complaints as an organization. But, aside from those two recommendations, everything is working as expected.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
OpsRamp is a scalable product.
I currently have 49 customers in my organization, it can be easily scaled. Everyone seems to be pleased with it.
I am not saying 49 customers are using it from my end. I'm claiming that we've adopted 49 customers internally. We have 49 internal customers who use our OpsRamp platform. To come in and place those queries or support questions there.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate their technical support a four and a half out of five.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have previously used IBM ticketing and monitoring tools. I was a former IBMer. I also use ServiceNow and Jira to some extent to go into detail about it. In addition, I was involved in the development of my own CMDB in the sense that change management databases for the organization.
I can be of assistance in those areas, not just monitoring and ticketing, nor just those tools. I have used tools such as Zerto, Veeam Backup & Restore, PlateSpin, Racemi, and other migration tools that help migrate environments from on-premises to the cloud.
How was the initial setup?
OpsRamp's initial setup is very straightforward. Because everything is prepared, a recent college graduate can complete this installation. All you need to do is define your workflows. If you understand the workflow, you can define it and get through it quickly.
It took us about a week to fully comprehend the OpsRamp deployment.
Deployment is quite simple. However, defining the workflows and the complexity of the security rules, as well as everything else, most likely took a week or a week and a half. Aside from that, it was quite simple.
What about the implementation team?
We also had help from OpsRamp to educate us on how quickly we could deploy.
It was completed by me, internally, by myself, and by my team. However, we eventually had support from them to assist us. We called when we are stuck with something, and they did a screen share with us to show us how to correct the problem, and that is what we did.
What was our ROI?
Definitely. Yes. You are getting your money's worth. It's a good return on your investment. This is what we have achieved, 90% alert reduction, 70% of manual, routine IT processes now automated 50% increase in team efficiency and productivity
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It all depends on the organization. However, my company has paid for a yearly subscription. It's not a subscription; it's more of a license. It's known as a perpetual license.
You pay it for a year and you'll have full access to the entire platform, not only for monitoring and alerting, you will have access to the entire platform, and whatever technology they develop will be made available to you.
In terms of pricing, I would say it is more of an economical range.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
There are technically six vendors with whom we conducted a proof of concept. It could be OpsRamp, Zendesk, ServiceNow, Service Desk, Zoho, or another product. There are six of them, and we believe that only a few are too mature, such as ServiceNow, Jira, and OpsRamp.
Aside from technology and maturity levels, we also considered the cost.
When it comes to the maturity of the product similar to ServiceNow and Jira, it is 90% to 95% mature. It is, however, more efficient.
We thought OpsRamp was more efficient. It not only provides a ticketing tool, for monitoring and alerting. For example, an individual who purchases the licenses can gain access to OpsRamp monitoring and alerting. It will also have access to OpsRamp ITSM, and gains access to OpsRamp patch management.
It can also be used for authentication, authorization, and patching in the same way that BladeLogic deployment can.
We felt there were more advantages to focusing on a single dedicated tool, such as ServiceNow. ServiceNow is extremely expensive. In terms of monitoring, alerting, ticketing, and other similar tasks, I believe OpsRamp outperforms ServiceNow. OpsRamp is capable of working on a multi-tenancy architecture which is actually beneficial to us.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend performing a proof of concept with your problem statement to gain a better understanding to how to monitor one or two applications. It is also important to understand whether it is intended for large corporations or mid-sized businesses.
If you have an ITSM from a different vendor and are only coming here for monitoring, you should consider it. However, if you don't have anything in mind and have a requirement for ITSM, OpsRamp, security patching, or operating system patching, you'll need to conduct a POC, validate the results, compare and contrast, and then use it automatically.
OpsRamp would undoubtedly be chosen solution, by a person performing the POC.
I would rate OpsRamp a nine out of ten,because I was able to reduce alerts by 90% in my environment, and roughly 70% of manual routine IT processes are now automated as well as a 50% increase in team efficiency and productivity.
These are my benefits, where I can integrate my incident management, change management, and ticketing system into my monitoring environment and get better application usage. Whoever has those requirements should seriously consider incorporating OpsRamp into their environment.
We use this technology internally to some extent. We have not gone to a high level of external use. However, we are currently using 90% of our resources internally and 10% of our resources in the external environment. I would see a consumer if I were using it internally. If I ask a customer to use my product, I would consider 10% as a reseller and 90% as internal usage.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)