OpenText SiteScope vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

OpenText and Splunk are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. OpenText is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0, while Splunk is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.4. OpenText holds a 0.5% mindshare in APM, compared to Splunk’s 4.8% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

OpenText SiteScope

Read 25 OpenText SiteScope reviews

1,554 Views
754 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

Splunk AppDynamics

Read 245 Splunk AppDynamics reviews

13,704 Views
8,628 Comparison Views

91% willing to recommend

OpenText SiteScope

Splunk AppDynamics

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 6, 2025

OpenText SiteScope and Splunk AppDynamics are both competitors in the IT monitoring and performance management sector, with Splunk AppDynamics leading due to its extensive features and strong value recognition.

Features: OpenText SiteScope offers robust server monitoring, efficient application tracking, and infrastructure management. It facilitates dynamic and agentless monitoring across diverse virtual environments. Splunk AppDynamics provides comprehensive application performance monitoring with real-time insights, detailed transaction tracking, and advanced analytics. It excels in delivering end-to-end visibility and proactive alerting capabilities, which are advantageous for larger enterprises seeking sophisticated performance insights.

Room for Improvement: OpenText SiteScope could benefit from enhancing its API functionalities and improving complex reporting mechanisms. Better visualization tools and streamlined configuration processes would increase its user-friendliness. Splunk AppDynamics might improve by simplifying setup procedures, reducing licensing complexity, and offering better integration support with non-standard systems. It could also benefit from enhanced user interface customization options for diverse dashboards.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText SiteScope features a user-friendly agentless architecture, making deployment straightforward and efficient, with solid customer service backing. Splunk AppDynamics provides flexible deployment options, including cloud and hybrid environments, accompanied by proactive support services. The simplicity of SiteScope's deployment is preferable for simpler setups, while AppDynamics offers greater adaptability across varied IT landscapes.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText SiteScope is often favored for its lower initial setup costs, providing a beneficial return on investment by minimizing upfront expenses. Splunk AppDynamics requires a higher initial investment, justified by substantial long-term ROI through its advanced monitoring and analytics. Businesses focused on comprehensive analytics may find AppDynamics worth the higher cost, whereas cost-sensitive buyers might prefer SiteScope for its economical pricing model.

To learn more, read our detailed OpenText SiteScope vs. Splunk AppDynamics Report (Updated: March 2025).

Buyer's Guide

OpenText SiteScope vs. Splunk AppDynamics

March 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 845,040 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

OpenText SiteScope

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

21st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Splunk AppDynamics

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

245

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (4th), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (2nd), Container Monitoring (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of OpenText SiteScope is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk AppDynamics is 4.8%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Ahmed Salman

Performance & Monitoring Supervisor at Saudi Telecom Company

Instead of executing jobs multiple times, I can configure it once, schedule, and apply it on multiple servers in sequence

The system is really powerful; instead of executing jobs multiple times, I can configure it once, schedule, and apply it on multiple servers in sequence. It allows me to create scripts and automate several processes, making tasks simpler and more efficient. By using templates for systems or databases, I can monitor various needs easily, which saves time and increases productivity.

Read full review

Muhammad Zeeshan Siddiqui

Head of Technology and Services at arwentech

Dynamic mapping enhances workflows that are user-friendly

One aspect that requires improvement is the agent. Without an agent, gathering sufficient information on applications is challenging. Additionally, the agent sometimes creates performance issues in production environments. If AppDynamics could develop a means to monitor without an agent, it could significantly improve application performance and reduce potential problems. Moving to an agentless solution, like what some competitors are doing, would be beneficial.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The URL monitoring is excellent."

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

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

"It can monitor over a 100 technologies with built-in solution templates."

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

"The tool has capabilities other than managing web-based applications, like URL Monitor and EPI Script. It is also easy to use the tool."

"Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature."

"Instead of executing jobs multiple times, I can configure it once, schedule, and apply it on multiple servers in sequence. It allows me to create scripts and automate several processes, making tasks simpler and more efficient."

More OpenText SiteScope pros

"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."

"The most valuable feature is the end-user monitoring."

"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."

"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."

"In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work."

"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."

"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."

"The ability to identify the top running queries has been extremely valuable for us."

More Splunk AppDynamics pros

Cons

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

"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."

"They have not kept up with browser security requirements or advances in GUIs, they switched to a corruptible database architecture instead of text config files."

"They need to offer better technical support, which, right now, is not helpful or responsive."

"Direct integration with an SMS gateway for sending critical alerts to the support SME. This will help customer investing in third party middleware solutions for SMS."

"The lack of an agent means that remote monitoring requires multiple firewall ports to be opened."

"SiteScope isn't productive if you want to monitor RAM or if you want to monitor some URL."

"More out of the box Cloud integration and capabilities."

More OpenText SiteScope cons

"The end-user experience is not really good because we can't catch all of the transactions. We only can catch the full stack of flow transactions, but I think that this is caused by the technology they use. If they will catch every transaction, it will cause a very big load on the performance of applications. The monitoring of all transactions needs improvement."

"The day-to-day activities should be less complicated so that anyone can manage it."

"They could align the product strategy to evolve as a complete solution."

"The solution is available at an inflated cost"

"This is an expensive solution."

"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."

"The solution should add some monitoring similar to Oracle monitoring tools for databases. It has a lot of features to monitor SQL queries, and make some recommendation to resolve it. AppDynamics is just monitoring for delays and doesn't provide any recommendations for that. It's a deficiency."

"If we consider the implementation of alternative solutions, such as Dynatrace, there is a notable difference in the approach to agent-based service monitoring. For instance, Dynatrace employs a single-agent solution, which can pose security concerns. When installing Dynatrace, granting the agent ld pro payload rights is a requirement. In contrast, our solution ensures a more secure approach by not requiring root and administration access. While we currently utilize an agent-based solution, there may be a shift in the next one or two years, possibly with the adoption of Open Telemetry. It's anticipated that many APM vendors, including Dynatrace, may alter their structure or strategy for implementation. However, as of now, the trend is towards an increasing number of implementations daily."

More Splunk AppDynamics cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"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."

"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 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."

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

More OpenText SiteScope pricing and cost advice

"This price of this product is expensive."

"The price of AppDynamics could be reduced in my region."

"There is an annual cost for the use of this solution."

"This solution is not the cheapest but it works well. You will end up doing more work with a cheaper solution than if you just spent the extra money on a better solution like this one."

"As a technical person, and as an application development team, they all understand that this is the right tool for us. But when it comes to budget and financial matters, it takes days and weeks to convince upper management to buy this tool. So they should do something more on licensing costs."

"It could be cheaper. It's a little cost prohibitive. There are so many features that also show a lot of value, but it’s not always easy to justify the cost."

"My understanding is that the price of this solution is quite high, compared to other products."

"The product’s licencing policy is competitive. However, properly identify and size your needs to get the best rate."

More Splunk AppDynamics pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

845,040 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

33%

Manufacturing Company

18%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Educational Organization

49%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

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.

See all answers

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.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope?

While working with OpenText, I noticed sometimes teams refuse intervention due to compliance issues. Overcoming control restrictions for different applications could be improved.

See all answers

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...

See all answers

APM tools for a Managed Service Provider - Dynatrace vs. AppDynamics vs. Aternity vs. Ruxit

Hi Avi! It's great to see your thorough approach to selecting an APM package for your MSP company. Considering your focus on SMBs and enterprises in Israel, Dynatrace seems like a solid choice with...

See all answers

What do you like most about AppDynamics?

The solution saves time and cost.

See all answers

Comparisons

Dynatrace vs OpenText SiteScope

Compared 14% of the time

Grafana vs OpenText SiteScope

Compared 13% of the time

OmniPeek vs OpenText SiteScope

Compared 12% of the time

Prometheus Group vs OpenText SiteScope

Compared 11% of the time

OpenText Real User Monitoring vs OpenText SiteScope

Compared 10% of the time

More OpenText SiteScope Competitors

Dynatrace vs Splunk AppDynamics

Compared 16% of the time

Datadog vs Splunk AppDynamics

Compared 10% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs Splunk AppDynamics

Compared 8% of the time

New Relic vs Splunk AppDynamics

Compared 7% of the time

Grafana vs Splunk AppDynamics

Compared 6% of the time

More Splunk AppDynamics Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

OpenText SiteScope

March 2025

Download OpenText SiteScope product report

Buyer's Guide

Splunk AppDynamics

March 2025

Download Splunk AppDynamics product report

Also Known As

Micro Focus SiteScope, HPE SiteScope, SiteScope

No data available

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.

OpenText

Splunk AppDynamics enhances application performance monitoring with advanced diagnostics and real-time insights, offering seamless end-to-end transaction tracking and infrastructure visibility.

AppDynamics provides critical tools for businesses to analyze application behavior and performance. Through innovative features like transaction snapshot analysis and adaptable dashboards, users can quickly identify and address issues, ensuring high levels of system uptime and efficiency. It is designed to support complex environments including Kubernetes and AWS, enhancing user experience by detecting performance issues early. Despite needing improvements in network monitoring and integration, it remains a robust option for tracking application health.

What are the key features of AppDynamics?

Real-time Performance Monitoring: Offers immediate insights into application behavior.
Business Transaction Tracking: Tracks transactions from start to finish for bottleneck identification.
JVM Memory Monitoring: Provides detailed JVM metrics and memory use information.
Deep-dive Diagnostics: Enables in-depth analysis of code and stack traces.
Adaptable Dashboards: Customizable views for better data interpretation.

How does AppDynamics benefit users?

Improved Incident Resolution: Faster problem detection and solution implementation.
Enhanced Application Performance: Real-time monitoring optimizes system operations.
Comprehensive Visibility: Provides a full view of application infrastructure.
Informed Decision Making: Detailed analytics guide performance improvements.
Customer Satisfaction: Enhances user experience through faster issue resolutions.

In industries like financial services and e-commerce, AppDynamics facilitates performance tracking across distributed systems, optimizing infrastructure to meet consumer demands. It excels in environments needing precise transaction monitoring and is pivotal in delivering high value and satisfaction.

Splunk

Sample Customers

Vodafone Ireland, Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank

Cisco, Sony, Nasdaq, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Edmunds.com, Puma, Fox News, DirecTV, Pizza Hut, T-Systems, Cornell University, OpenTable, BITMARCK, Green Mountain Power, Care.com, Overstock, Paddy Power, eHarmony, Kraft, The Motley Fool, The Container Store, and more See more customers

Buyer's Guide

OpenText SiteScope vs. Splunk AppDynamics

March 2025

Free Report: OpenText SiteScope vs. Splunk AppDynamics

Find out what your peers are saying about OpenText SiteScope vs. Splunk AppDynamics and other solutions. Updated: March 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

845,040 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our OpenText SiteScope vs. Splunk AppDynamics report.

See our list of best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors.

We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.