Hosted Graphite vs Site24x7: Which is a better fit?

They're headed the right direction, and we're ultimately looking to get rid of our SolarWinds monitoring software in favor of Hosted Graphite. The customer support is great.

In the era of devops, limitation of team members does not work well, I prefer all of my team members to have access to the monitoring.

Graphite is a great tool, that helps you measure both business KPIs and application performance over time. Hostedgraphite provides you a great hosting service.

But with all the weird port numbers, odd dependencies, obscure programs and commands, something always breaks.

Love Hosted Graphite, it's a great solution to having to provision and manage graphite and statsd servers and allows to focus on just collecting and visualising our metrics.

Having said that, it's a real pain to build and monitor.

I add in a few lines of code in my app, point the metrics to Hosted Graphite and I look like a hero to my client. Makes me look good, makes my client look good, I'm sticking with it.

We tried a few options, some were not functional, some were hard to integrate and some were simply overpriced, and settled with Hosted Graphite.

Sahil S

Associate Business Analyst

Very good software for monitoring things like server performance or any website performance. Good to operate from both mobile and desktop and customer support of this organisation is very good.

My quibbles are that we have received false alarms on occasion, sometimes caused by their server agents, which have been a little flakey sometimes. Also, the pricing can be confusing.

I love its dashboarding capabilities. And that the monitoring system itself keep track of historical data providing great insight on what is happening.

Joseph J

IT Support

It is very hard to recover the password once the person who set up the service is no longer with the organization.

Overall we are very happy with this product and all the different options offered by it. We recommend it to any IT personnel.

When you get a phone call that a server of services is down. IT is some times hard to understand what the computer is saying.

Dimitri D

Head of Operations

Site24x7 can also help you automate tasks like restarting servers or notifying IT staff of issues. This can save you time and help you keep your website running smoothly.

As you have lots of settings available, some times you get puzzled were to configure it properly, for instance when setting up notifications groups/teams.