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Why is Site24x7 a better alternative to WatchGuard

One-stop solution for all your IT monitoring needs

Site24x7 offers comprehensive monitoring across your entire IT stack that helps you collect and analyze data across your applications, infrastructure, networks, and front-end applications.

While WatchGuard offers some basic network monitoring capabilities, the core of their expertise lies in monitoring the network health and security of their own devices.

Helps you achieve network observability

Site24x7 provides real-time monitoring, performance metrics, visualization tools, and customizable alerts to ensure optimal network health and performance along with root cause analysis, synthetic monitoring, log management, and end-user experience tracking to proactively identify and resolve issues. By integrating these features into a single platform, Site24x7 helps you achieve comprehensive network observability, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and security of your network infrastructure.

Advanced AI and incident management capabilities

Site24x7's AI capabilities and incident management features offer advanced anomaly detection, real-time alerts, AIOps, and root cause analysis (RCA) to streamline incident detection, diagnosis, and resolution to identify and mitigate issues proactively. Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) by automating tasks like incident triage, ticket creation, and remediation, and prioritize critical tasks with event correlation.

Monitor multiple cloud environments seamlessly

Site24x7 offers a unified platform to monitor applications and infrastructure across diverse cloud environments that allows for streamlined management and troubleshooting across multiple cloud platforms. On the other hand, WatchGuard doesn't provide deep integration with cloud platforms and primarily focuses on network security. This restricts its visibility to network-related metrics.

Track and manage mobile apps with robust mobile app monitoring

Site24x7 provides a feature-rich solution for monitoring mobile apps that provides real-user monitoring (RUM) to monitor user experience, crash analytics, and performance metrics that provides deep insights into app behavior. This empowers businesses to optimize their mobile applications effectively, while WatchGuard lacks dedicated mobile app monitoring capabilities.

Advanced secure login features

Site24x7 prioritizes user security with features like multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO) integration, biometrics authentication, and Okta login support. This ensures that customer data is always protected.

Site24x7 vs WatchGuard

Services Offered Site24x7 WatchGuard
Legacy, Modern, and Hybrid Infrastructure Monitoring
System Monitoring
Monitor Windows, Linux, Solaris, IBM AIX, MacOS, FreeBSD Dell iDRAC, HP iLO, and HP UX

Firebox system performance
Out-of-the-box Monitoring
80+ metrics monitored
Basic Application Monitoring
Detailed performance monitoring
Microsoft Applications Monitoring
Cron Monitoring
Database Monitoring
Hadoop Monitoring
Through integrations like Apache Ambari and Cloudera manager
SMART Disk Monitoring
Metrics Monitoring (Prometheus and StatsD)
Through integrations like Fluentd, Logstash, and Grafana
Integration (Plugins)
100+ plugins

Yes, but limited
Custom Plugins
Virtualization monitoring
VMware Monitoring
(Monitors VMware clusters, vCenter, ESX/ESXi hosts, VMs, datastores, resource pools, snapshots, and hardware sensors)
Nutanix Monitoring
Hyper-V Monitoring
Container Monitoring
Docker Monitoring
Kubernetes Monitoring
Out-of-the-box monitoring at the node, pod, and cluster levels.
Multi-Cloud Monitoring
AWS monitoring
Azure Monitoring
GCP Monitoring
Guidance Reports for Cloud Platforms
Guidance Reports for Cloud Platforms
Network Monitoring
Network Discovery via SNMP and ICMP
SNMP v1, v2c, v3 Support
Support for Devices like Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Printers, etc.
Device Templates
(Over 11,000 device templates from 450+ vendors)
Custom SNMP monitoring
SNMP Traps for Instant Alerts
Monitors only WatchGuard devices
Infrastructure Details
Bandwidth Monitoring
Can monitor bandwidth usage and identify bottlenecks by analyzing it
Interfaces Monitoring for Traffic and Errors Discards
Limited capabilities
Cisco Meraki Monitoring
(Out-of-the-box)

Integrate Cisco Meraki dashboard with Authpoint
VPN Monitoring
Third-Party Integration for Workflow
Through custom scripting via APIs, SIEM integration, or dedicated IT automation platforms
Cisco IPSLA Monitoring
Network Maps and Data Center Views
Automatic Layer 2/ Layer 3 Network Maps
Topology Maps
Limited customization options
Meraki Map view
Geographic map view
Network Traffic Monitoring (NetFlow)
Application and Protocol Monitoring
Customizable Dashboard
Threshold-based Alerts
Network Traffic Reports
Network Traffic Monitoring (NetFlow)
AWS VPC Flow Logs
via AppLogs
Network Configuration Management (NCM)
Multiple Protocol Support
Configuration Backups
Restore Configuration
Firmware Vulnerabilities
Compliance and Related Reports
Log Management
Centralized Log Collection
Supports more than 100 different log types
Out-of-the-box support for common applications - MySQL, Kafka, Apache, Tomcat, NGINX, and Logstash
Support for Cloud Logs like AWS and Azure
Event Logs and SysLogs Monitoring
Basic/limited capabilities
Query-based Searching
Basic/limited capabilities
Saved Searches
Query-based Log Alerts
Pre-defined Dashboards
Cluster Messages based on Pattern Similarity
Application Performance Monitoring
Application Performance Troubleshooting for Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, and Ruby on Rails Applications
Service Maps
Key Transactions
Platform specific Metrics like JVM for Java, IIS for .NET, and NVM for Node.js
Mobile Application Performance Monitoring
Mobile monitoring
Android, iOS, React Native, and Flutter
Crash Analytics
Monitor by Geographic Regions
Segment Performance by Device and Carrier
Real time monitoring for all devices and geographies
User Sessions
Mobile Vitals
App start time, Slow Frames, and Frozen Frames
Internet Services and End User Experience Monitoring
Website Monitoring
Synthetic Monitoring
REST API Monitoring
Some basic functionalities
Front-end monitoring using protocols like PING, POP, IMAP, FTP, SMTP, NTP, and WebSocket
Monitoring from global locations
(130 cities globally)
Security Monitoring
Offers SSL/TLS Certificate monitoring & basic website defacement monitoring capabilities
Real User Monitoring
Real-Time Global Application Performance
Monitor and Manage Javascript Errors
Real-Time Website Performance Stats by ISPs, Devices, And Browsers
Monitor AJAX Requests
Provides some limited capabilities like traffic monitoring
Platform Features
Support for Monitor Grouping and Management
Free Tools
Dimension tool and the limited free version of WatchGuard Management Center (WMC)
Status Pages to show Service Status to Customers
via Site24x7 StatusIQ
Maintenance Period
Resource Organization using Tags
Setting Monitor Dependencies
For some basic dependencies
Threshold based Alerting
Configuration Rules for Automatic Association of Properties
Email Reports
Out-of-the-box Reports
Log Reports
SLA Management and Reporting
IT Automation
Multi-User Login
Dashboards
MSP Support
Limited support through the Partner program
Terraform support
Alerts
SMS, Email, and Mobile App
Only via email, display, and syslogs
Voice Call
Alarm Management
Third-party Integrations
ServiceNow, Webhook, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Slack
Indirectly though configuring email addresses on these apps to receive alerts
ConnectWise Manage, Zoho Analytics, Zoho Desk, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus On-Premises, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus MSP, ManageEngine AlarmsOne, Zapier, Amazon EventBridge, Freshservice, Zoho Cliq, Discord, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, Moogsoft, VictorOps, Jira, Zendesk
Secure Login Features
SSO Capability
Biometrics Authentication
Two-factor Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Okta login Support
Active Directory Integration
Ability to Restrict IP Addresses
Password Policy
AI-powered Monitoring
Anomaly Detection
Yes, but limited to identifying deviations from baseline network traffic patterns that helps in detecting potential security threats like malware or denial-of-service attacks
Dynamic/Adaptive thresholds
Forecasting
Support Options
Phone
Chat
Email
Knowledge Base
Video Tutorials
Community
Pricing
Licensing Model Based on the number of interfaces Based on the number of users or endpoints
Free trial
30 days
Free training
No Credit Card Required
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