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Cloud-based monitoring tool that helps firms with problem detection, troubleshooting, debugging and root cause analysis.
Provider
Splunk
Located In
United States
Foundation
2012
Open API
Unverified
Content Source: SignalFx
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SignalFx Reviews
"Ultimate observability solution"
Overall: Signalfx is well suited for almost all stacks and its very easy to setup. Moreover we can develop custom plugins very easily and in short time. I really like how they reduced the learning curve for users.
Pros: Signalfx comes with out-of-the-box standard dashboard groups for most of the stacks like Kubernetes, Nginx, EC2, etc. It saves lot of time. Whenever a new cluster is provisioned I just need to open the in-built dashboard group and select the cluster and the share the link to customer. It saves lot of time and effort. Also it has lot of APIs to automate the dashboarding and alerting capabilities, which is well suited for custom dashboards.
Cons: While setting up new smart agents, Due to some internal performance bottlenecks I have noticed metrics not rendered in dashboard but ingested. If the load is high atleast the data sent in agent could be re evaluated to give clear picture to users.
"SignalFX provides multi dimensional view of all our metrics, possibilities are endless."
Overall: All my enterprise metrics in one place!
Pros: Simplicity in creating dashboards using this software to aggregate all the metrics and build dimensions, configure alerts based on several criteria, integration with AWS, PagerDuty and providers is very useful.
Cons: Some of the alerts are not accurate, but I believe there needs be some kind of intelligence gathering to be done to understand the behavior of a certain type of server of service.
"excellent SaaS monitoring and analytics tool for cloud native environments"
Overall: Had good interactions with SignalFx, fulfilled our requirements, product worked as expected.
Pros: very simple to setup and configure. We have a medium sized kubernetes cluster and needed analytics for our entire stack. SignalFx is completely SaaS based solution with various ways to connect and forward metrics. We used the SignalFx daemonset to pipe all of our metrics. Once the data is there, that's where the fun begins. There are numerous canned dashboards and reports based on best practices. These are already useful and just require some slight customization for our needs. Pricing is per node, not per amount of data which worked for us.
Cons: Purely for SaaS environment, if you have infrastructure and applications that are air gapped, this is not a fit. There is no on-premise solution.
