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BMC TrueSight vs BigPanda comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 3, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.5
BigPanda enhances efficiency by centralizing operations, saving time and resources, especially when managing over 10,000 events weekly.
Sentiment score
6.6
BMC TrueSight reduces IT costs by automating monitoring, lowering ticket volume, streamlining tools, and reallocating personnel to strategic tasks.
BigPanda saves time with its advanced features and manages large environments while requiring fewer resources compared to our previous tool, Netcool.
BigPanda offers significant time-saving, cost-saving, and resource-saving benefits.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.0
BigPanda customer service is generally helpful but experiences vary, showing occasional delays with ratings from six to ten.
Sentiment score
6.7
BMC TrueSight's customer service is praised for helpfulness but criticized for inconsistent response times and expertise.
If BigPanda can consistently provide such competent contacts, I would rate the support ten out of ten, otherwise, it is an eight out of ten.
Their collaboration was good, and I would rate them nine out of ten.
For technical support, we have only had to address password resets and alert mismatching.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
BigPanda efficiently manages large alerts and users, integrates well, and is favored for scalability in complex infrastructures.
Sentiment score
7.1
BMC TrueSight is scalable for varied environments, though complexities and budget constraints may affect performance in larger deployments.
We manage a large environment with over 50,000 servers and various monitoring tools like Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Nagios, and Datadog.
It handles large volumes of alerts without limitations.
BigPanda facilitates better collaboration between IT teams by providing a shared view of incidents and requests.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
BigPanda is stable with efficient issue resolution, improved reliability, and high ratings, though critical traffic may slow it down.
Sentiment score
7.5
BMC TrueSight is stable when properly configured, with occasional issues resolved by vendor support, praised for reliability.
BigPanda is now stable.
I have not encountered issues like lagging or crashing with BigPanda.
If they have improved their technical capabilities recently, they might have achieved higher stability.
 

Room For Improvement

BigPanda needs better analytics, UI, cost-effectiveness, and AI, with improved observability, integration, and reduced incident costs.
BMC TrueSight struggles with deployment complexity, limited dashboards, costly training, and requires improved AI, cloud monitoring, and documentation.
A 'deep dive' analysis feature would be appreciated to give detailed insights such as CPU usage and disk space analysis.
If BigPanda could integrate AI, it would enhance the platform significantly by offering chatbot functionality within the BigPanda UI.
It would be beneficial if BigPanda leveraged AI to solve critical issues related to editing and sending alerts based on enrichment mapping files.
 

Setup Cost

BigPanda offers flexible, affordable pricing at $200,000/year with discounts, perceived as reasonable compared to competitors in event management.
BMC TrueSight pricing varies from $80 to $200 per license, depending on volume, complexity, and additional features.
The pricing for BigPanda is reasonable compared to other event management tools, given its advantages.
 

Valuable Features

BigPanda enhances incident management with AI-driven alert deduplication, integration, automation, and user-friendly dashboards, improving workflow efficiency.
BMC TrueSight offers intuitive integration, robust event management, end-to-end visibility, and flexibility across assets with advanced automation.
Even during suppressions when other tools are unavailable, BigPanda provides alerts, enabling me to track incidents effectively, follow up, and resolve them promptly.
It can correlate multiple issues within a single device, create a single incident, and thus reduce noise and provide faster resolution.
The platform's AI analyzes alert sources and root causes, enhancing real-time incident management and enabling automated resolution.
 

Categories and Ranking

BigPanda
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
25th
Ranking in AIOps
8th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (8th)
BMC TrueSight
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
34th
Ranking in AIOps
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (30th), Event Monitoring (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (26th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of BigPanda is 0.9%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BMC TrueSight is 1.0%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
BigPanda0.9%
BMC TrueSight1.0%
Other98.1%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Michael Wenn - PeerSpot reviewer
Experience boosts operational efficiency while requiring smoother setup and cost adjustments
I am a customer and end user of the BigPanda solution. My role is CEO/co-founder at AI Ops Limited, and I can be reached at mike.van@aiops.co.uk. I have opted to receive email notifications relevant to my review, which I can opt out of at any time. If I don't already have an account on peerspot.com, PeerSpot will create an account and email me login credentials.
Srri G - PeerSpot reviewer
The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise
If I want custom monitoring across a very large estate of more than 50,000 units, the on-premise deployment gets quite slow. The on-premise product’s performance must be improved. The solution is a little obsolete. That is why the solution moved to Helix, a SaaS operating system. The SaaS platform has the features I like. There is no point in BMC expanding TrueSight Operations’ console. It's high time that BMC starts a demise path for the product and is associated only with Helix. If we need any additional function, we must switch to Helix. Since TrueSight is deployed on-premise, the scalability and usage of the product are mainly focused on providing basic features and not enhanced features like analytics or cost analysis. People should move to a SaaS platform because on-premise products have limited storage and capacity.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
12%
Retailer
7%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise24
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What do you like most about BigPanda?
One of the most valuable features of BigPanda is its user-friendly interface.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BigPanda?
The pricing of BigPanda includes considerations for pricing, licensing, and setup costs of the solution.
What do you like most about BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
The solution provides visibility to our infrastructure, how it is, the resources we are monitoring, and quick updates when it has any problems. We have integrated it with ServiceNow to open instances.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
Though I have no clue about the tool's actual price, I know that it is astronomical.
What needs improvement with BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
Cost is an issue with BMC TrueSight Operations Management. Though I am not responsible for the budget, I know that it is an expensive tool set when used only for event management. The tool's issue ...
 

Also Known As

No data available
ProactiveNet, TrueSight Operations Management
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Nagios, ServiceNow, ITSM, NOC, CMDB Evolved, RemedyIncident Management Process
Ensono, Transamerica, Boston Scientific, Park Place Technologies, inContact, TD Ameritrade, PNC Bank
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