Chronosphere vs. AdRem NetCrunch

Tailored specifically to meet the unique monitoring requirements of cloud-native systems, this innovative solution has been meticulously crafted to handle the vast quantities of monitoring data produced by cloud-native applications. It functions as a cohesive platform that unites business stakeholders, application developers, and infrastructure engineers, allowing them to efficiently address issues across the entire technology stack. The platform is designed to cater to a variety of use cases, from real-time data collection for ongoing deployments to hourly analytics for capacity management. With a convenient one-click deployment feature, it supports both Prometheus and StatsD ingestion protocols effortlessly. The solution provides comprehensive storage and indexing capabilities for both Prometheus and Graphite data types within a unified framework. In addition, it boasts integrated Grafana-compatible dashboards that are fully equipped to handle PromQL and Graphite queries, complemented by a dependable alerting engine that can interface with services such as PagerDuty, Slack, OpsGenie, and webhooks. Capable of ingesting and querying billions of metric data points every second, the system facilitates swift alert triggering, immediate dashboard access, and prompt issue detection within merely one second. To further enhance its reliability, it maintains three consistent copies of data across different failure domains, significantly strengthening its resilience in the realm of cloud-native monitoring. This ensures that users can trust the system during critical operations and rely on its performance even during peak loads.

NetCrunch operates on both physical and virtual Windows Server environments, providing a robust, agentless solution for network monitoring, visibility, and a sophisticated system for managing alerts and remediation actions. It is capable of monitoring virtually any device, system, or data source within your network, as it can integrate non-standard data through various means such as logs, files, or databases, thereby contributing to the comprehensive NetCrunch network atlas. Created by AdRem Software, NetCrunch boasts over 540 predefined monitoring packs and an array of ready-to-use sensors designed to oversee and troubleshoot the uptime and performance of network services, including switches, routers, storage devices, applications, cloud services, bandwidth consumption, and traffic patterns. The software is compatible with all major operating systems, including Linux, Windows, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Mac OS X, and BSD. Furthermore, it empowers users to generate diverse live network maps, performance charts, adaptable dashboards, and graphical representations that refresh automatically, reflecting the real-time status of any monitored device, connection link, metric, or alert. In addition, the data gathered by NetCrunch can be securely shared through a web console or via any of the over 30 ready-made integrations with popular help desk platforms like Jira and Freshdesk, or group collaboration tools such as Slack, MS Teams, PagerDuty, and Trello, ensuring seamless communication and incident management. This extensive integration capability enhances the effectiveness of network monitoring and response initiatives.