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Instana Infrastructure Monitoring vs OpenText Operations Bridge comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Instana Infrastructure Moni...
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
27th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (36th)
OpenText Operations Bridge
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
34th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (8th), IT Operations Analytics (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is 1.1%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Operations Bridge is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Hakimuddin Ronaque - PeerSpot reviewer
May 7, 2024
Has the capability to automatically integrate with a large number of products
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. I have not worked much on other technologies, like SAP or VMware's virtualization part, on-prem infrastructure, or cloud infrastructure. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is so fast and easy to adapt that it works fine. I have not explored other operating systems or infrastructure solutions because my company doesn't have that customer scale. Most of our customers are on-prem or on AWS or Azure, but Instana Infrastructure Monitoring adapts to their infrastructure very well. My company came to know how well Instana Infrastructure Monitoring adapts to our customers' infrastructures when we take care of the PoC phase. Around 12 to 15 people in my company use the product.
Volodymyr Bondarchuk - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2022
Has instrument analysis and anomaly control features that help indicate root causes and problems with your infrastructure
I have experience with other solutions apart from Micro Focus Operations Bridge, for example, NetIQ Operations Center and NetIQ AppManager. I also have experience with network performance monitoring solutions, for example, Microsoft SCOM, and some open-source products, such as Nagios and Zabbix. What makes Micro Focus Operations Bridge better than others is that it works as an umbrella and includes different models for different types of monitoring. At the same time, an open-source product does not give you this kind of functionality. Instead, an open-source product only gives you classic monitoring functionalities in some areas of network performance but not for all areas of monitoring solutions or infrastructure. Microsoft SCOM, at the moment, has many new features, and it's similar to Micro Focus which focuses on network performance and traffic monitoring, so my company uses it together with Micro Focus for monitoring.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product's initial setup is easy."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"I find the Micro Focus Operations Bridge dashboard valuable, including its instrument analysis and anomaly control features that help indicate root causes and problems with your infrastructure."
"The Performance Manager provides great insight into our systems' performance."
"You can create an application topology that shows relationships between different components."
"Purely, its flexibility is the most valuable aspect. It is hugely configurable."
"The most valuable feature is that everything can be consolidated into one dashboard."
"The event correlation is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"OpsBridge has good event correlation facilities and root-cause identification algorithms."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its grouping scripts and event focus."
 

Cons

"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
"Reporting has to be tackled a bit more. Conceptually, it is there and conceptually it is amazing, but somehow the module itself is suffering."
"The service takes a very long time to start and it requires a lot of resources."
"The deployment of agents on new CI should be improved. There should be some kind of automation to directly deploy them from the console. It can maybe have some more AI functions because most of the other tools are going in that direction."
"Remove the dependency of Java technology. This is a feature used for admin purposes to update the modeling."
"The initial setup of this tool is complex for people who lack experience with it."
"Implementation could be improved."
"The latest versions of the service reporting dashboards need improvement, such as service modeling."
"We are waiting for quicker release cycles. Also containerized upgrade, so that you don't have to bring a system entirely down to make a minor upgrade, in fact, or a minor patch."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of the tool is around 130 USD per month."
"It is competitive."
"The licensing cost for this solution is approximately $1,000 USD."
"Setup costs can be high depending on the partner, but it is worth it."
"The cost is very high."
"Pricing is very flexible and depends on the modules selected as per the requirement."
"The licensing model for Micro Focus Operations Bridge is unit-based so it can be one device or ten devices depending on your situation or model. Cost-wise, it's much more if you have more devices and features such as infrastructure monitoring, analytic dashboard, and business dashboard in your model."
"As OpsBridge is a suite of products bundled together, you may find yourself paying for software functionality that you don't actually use, e.g. Real User Monitor (RUM)."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Instana Infrastructure Monitoring?
The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required.
What is your primary use case for Instana Infrastructure Monitoring?
I use the solution in my company, especially if an application is down and it is considered to be a P1 issue or a critical issue. The network team will blame the application team, while the applica...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Operations Bridge?
The licensing model for Micro Focus Operations Bridge is unit-based so it can be one device or ten devices depending on your situation or model. Cost-wise, it's much more if you have more devices a...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Micro Focus Operations Bridge, Operations Bridge Manager, Micro Focus Operations Analytics
 

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Sample Customers

booxware, drivenow, scopevisio, enevo, TimoCom, mobitech
GE Money Bank, Bank AlJazira, Tech Mahindra
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