Backup Radar vs. AlertSite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Backup Radar
Score 8.3 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Backup Radar is a backup monitoring solution for MSPs designed to reduce risk of data loss, drive business and process efficiency, and achieve greater visibility across backup platforms. It is an automation software that helps MSP’s of all sizes and enterprise IT departments catch missed or failed backups in real-time, streamline backup checking workflows and give full customization for reports, alerts and dashboards. Backup Radar makes it possible for MSP's to see the "unseen". …N/A
AlertSite
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
AlertSite, from SmartBear Software, is a website monitoring and application performance management application offering real time alerting with root-cause analytics and robust reporting.N/A
Pricing
Backup RadarAlertSite
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Backup RadarAlertSite
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Backup Radar
10.0
1 Ratings
25% above category average
AlertSite
-
Ratings
Remote monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Backup Radar
10.0
1 Ratings
30% above category average
AlertSite
-
Ratings
Service configuration management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy-based automation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Backup Radar
10.0
1 Ratings
27% above category average
AlertSite
-
Ratings
Performance data reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk analysis10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Backup Radar
-
Ratings
AlertSite
7.6
4 Ratings
0% below category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings6.53 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Collaboration tools00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings7.53 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings7.53 Ratings
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User Ratings
Backup RadarAlertSite
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
2.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Backup RadarAlertSite
Likelihood to Recommend
ScalePad
We have more than 2500 individual backup jobs across our customer base. With Backup Radar, I now have a detailed, accurate insight into all jobs. I do not have to wonder or doubt if the backup job did not run, it logs a "no result in 24 hours" ticket for me and if it failed, I get a failure ticket logged. It cannot be more simple. This is done across multiple different backup software. The reporting, be it on demand, or scheduled, is absolutely brilliant and super valuable
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SmartBear
AlertSite is used in our organization to monitor our website and web applications in real-time to collect the super important metrics reflecting web page load time but from the user end (E2E) and that approaches helps us to understand what our website is experiencing in real-time.
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Pros
ScalePad
  • Backup Monitoring (no successful backups in 24 hours)
  • Automated Ticketing (Backup Radar logs the tickets in our PSA system)
  • Automated Reporting (Daily, Weekly, and Monthly reporting)
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SmartBear
  • The Deja-Click Recorder is an excellent tool.
  • Good UI that translates to large NOC screens well.
  • Easy Alerting and Reporting.
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Cons
ScalePad
  • None offhand that I can think of
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SmartBear
  • Tool is complicated for Alert creation
  • AlertSite GUI need improvement. As compared to Datadog, it needs improvement in GUI
  • While using AlertSite, many times we faced false alerting, they need to take a look at it to improve performance.
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Likelihood to Renew
ScalePad
No answers on this topic
SmartBear
Reviewing other cost saving options
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Usability
ScalePad
No answers on this topic
SmartBear
Pretty good product only issue was cost
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Support Rating
ScalePad
No answers on this topic
SmartBear
I've been unable to contact support after several attempts.
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Alternatives Considered
ScalePad
Never used anything else similar to this
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SmartBear
We moved all of our services to Site24x7 after several years with AlertSite. We looked at Uptrends and Pingdom to name a few whilst evaluating options. Pingdom lacks functionality and Uptrends we found to have quite a steep learning curve. AlertSites platform and in particular the Deja-Click recorder is a standout tool against the other platforms. Sadly the upscaling costs of multi-location transactions can quickly add up.
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Return on Investment
ScalePad
  • Positive, the ROI is no match compared to the integrity and business reputation value we get by using Backup Radar, as we do not "resell" Backup Radar to our customers, it is our internal monitoring and reporting tool for the customers we look after.
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SmartBear
  • A negative thing is Monitoring locations would have issues and cause false-positive alerts and due to that monitoring team's repetitive work has increased.
  • A positive thing that I have noticed so far is the fact that the AlertSite customers support team is trying to build relationships and go the extra mile to make sure we can overcome any occurring issues and they are quick to respond and provide sufficient guidance for implementing efficiently, and fix products issues.
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