Our primary use case for Wavefront is for metrics alerting. We use the SaaS offering.
Principle Product Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Great querying and alerting capabilities but it has a high learning curve
Pros and Cons
- "The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
- "In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Wavefront's monitoring tools and visibility into public cloud platforms are competing with the best out there. It helps us monitor our services and it gives us the alerting capabilities we need. We have, however, not used their prebuilt dashboards in terms of incident resolution yet.
I believe that the SDK-based approach in terms of its capability and adoption by developers is the right way to go because I think it is easier for developers to pull in an SDK and instrument decode and get the data and the telemetry that they need.
I wouldn't say that the solution reduced the complexity of the pipeline, but it certainly helped us get the data that we have in a single place.
We also plan to use the solution's new chart customization and dashboard customization soon. We also plan to test it for microservices-based deployment soon.
What is most valuable?
The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities because it enables us to write enriched alerts that are meaningful for our developers to respond to.
What needs improvement?
In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get.
I would also like it if alerts were easier. It's really easy to drown in alerts. So what the developers of Wavefront could do, is to correlate different types of alerts to bring a much more enriched incident. That would be an interesting thing to look at. Predicting a problem beforehand could also be improved since Wavefront has all the data of metrics in its store. I would like to know if something is wrong so that I can go and look at it. I would like to use the AIML approach to predict problems for the user other than the users trying to figure out what the problems are themselves. I would love to see a change in that direction.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I believe that Wavefront is able to scale to our needs. So far it helps us with our footprint.
How are customer service and support?
We have our own customer service team, which helps us resolve issues as and when they arise, so we are pretty happy with that model.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I was not part of the initial decision-making process as to what made us choose this solution, but I think the issue we had, was that we were trying to bring visibility into our applications and this was one of the tools that was out there that could help us get to our goals. So far, the solution's learning curve has been pretty high. I think with the new experience it may be lower, but for anybody new, that was the biggest challenge that we faced.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others to test Wavefront and see how it works for them. I don't want to rate the solution, because I feel neutral about it.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

Professional Services Expert at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Useful technology with helpful support but it's hard to set up Tanzu clusters
Pros and Cons
- "VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
- "The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
What is our primary use case?
I primarily use the solution for consulting. I help company DevOps teams.
How has it helped my organization?
The companies are already using VMware technologies and Tanzu helps them be compatible with other technologies.
What is most valuable?
The company is able to use native Kubernetes. It can support open-source technologies. If you have trouble putting these together with VMware, you get help.
VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support.
It's a good, useful technology. It does help with third-party integration.
The solution can scale.
It is stable.
Technical support has been okay.
What needs improvement?
It's hard to set up Tanzu clusters. It's hard to do a POC. Once you set up a customer's environment, you easily see the problems.
The initial setup should be easier and more seamless.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable. I'd rate it seven or eight out of ten. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is not exactly scalable. Cloud services are far more scalable. That said, Kubernetes is scalable, and I haven't had issues with scaling.
How are customer service and support?
I've dealt with support. It's okay.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup can be complex. It's hard to set up clusters.
It takes about one technical person if they understand the clusters. However, it's helpful to get the network and security team involved as well.
What other advice do I have?
I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. It's a useful tool if you are using VMware.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Sysops Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Provides the relevant metrics that we need to monitor our systems and the environment
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
- "They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
What is our primary use case?
We primarily use the solution for KPI metrics. We use the aggregation of metrics, and get alerts about the numbers behind the data that we have.
How has it helped my organization?
Being able to have a dashboard of key items for a few departments and teams in our company have improved our organization. The solution provides the relevant metrics that I need to monitor our systems and the environment. The log space and log aggregation KPIs help us to have a better way to see where we're at in terms of threshold monitoring.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation.
What needs improvement?
Authentication is probably there already, but if it isn't, it should be added. Integration should be in there. They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us.
The solution should integrate AI elements. Instead of opening a file with a template and filling things out, have the AI ask questions, and then let it fill it out.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of the solution is good. I've never heard of anyone saying "It failed." There's no problem. It's there, just like any other cache application. You don't have to maintain it in your data center. I don't even think much about the stability because I know the solution can handle it.
How are customer service and technical support?
I've never used the solution's technical support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used Splunk. We did not want to put more load on our existing monitor systems. Also, putting metrics into it was not within the reach of a lot of people. It requires a little bit more experience and knowledge to do it in Splunk. Wavefront is much easier in this regard.
We wanted to bridge the experience gap by seeing the right dashboard. When we were trying to come up with a solution we had a project to have a single pane for monitoring. That was three years ago. Then we implemented Wavefront.
The reason for the implementation came down to cost and usability.
What other advice do I have?
Wavefront gives us the complexity we need, instead of spending time coming up with a nice dashboard from some other means, or just creating and coding our own app.
The solution enables you to run your microservices to optimize the application. The people that are responsible for our microservices appreciate that. When we talk about microservices, just the ability to help in log analysis is a big plus. It's been a while since I saw the company's microservices dashboard, but there are some reports from Wavefront that help in giving them a better view of business processes.
The chart or dashboard creation processes are very easy. It gives us the ability to just plug and place things.
There's a very little learning curve for the solution. It's easy. Any technologist should be able to see how beneficial it is and how manageable and easy it is to use.
For smaller companies, the solution should consider the cost-factor and offer some better deals. For me, as a technologist, I like things when they work. I don't want to be maintaining my own scripts, or my own in-house applications. We don't have time to develop in-house applications nowadays anyway. We're just wasting our time. The traditional model is gone and Wavefront is right there with modern companies in delivering solutions to them. Basically, you have an entire company doing engineering for you. If I were a company or a technologist that has been given a chance to do something like this, I'd go for it. I hope the entry cost gets better for smaller to mid-sized companies such as where I work.
I would rate the solution eight out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Sr Virtualization Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Scales well and our customers are pleased, but the implementation takes a long time
Pros and Cons
- "People are very pleased with the implementation."
- "The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
What is our primary use case?
We do not use this solution directly. Rather, we provide a platform for people to run it. We are the virtualization engineers, and we interface with this solution.
Our experience is with a private cloud deployment.
How has it helped my organization?
Using Wavefront, we have been able to reduce the complexity of our pipeline.
Our mean time to remediation has been reduced.
What needs improvement?
The implementation is a long process that should be improved.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The application scales well.
How was the initial setup?
During the implementation, the internal processes take longer for us than the actual application. This includes the storage, provisioning and all of the resources required to actually run the application.
What other advice do I have?
My suggestion for anybody who is implementing this solution is to have all of the requirements ahead of time. That way, it can increase the time to market.
People are very pleased with the implementation.
I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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