Exoprise CloudReady vs. AdRem NetCrunch

Active or synthetic transaction monitoring (STM) replicates the actions of real users engaging with cloud services and infrastructure, including platforms like Office 365. User experience monitoring is conducted around the clock, ensuring constant oversight. The system does not require complex scripting, streamlining the process significantly. App performance can be observed through various methods, including Web UI, client interactions, and API transactions. Comprehensive performance data regarding the entire network path is provided for better correlation and identification of outages. Our solution is straightforward to implement and easy to manage over time. CloudReady works seamlessly with any version of Windows OS and is adaptable to various workloads. We thoroughly monitor all components of Office 365, such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Skype for Business, offering more than just basic ping checks. Extensive testing is conducted on both infrastructure and applications, incorporating cross-server timing assessments. Additionally, we perform detailed upload and download tests, as well as monitoring and evaluating message queues to ensure optimal performance. This comprehensive approach guarantees that any potential issues are swiftly identified and addressed.

NetCrunch is commercial, self-hosted, agentless network and IT infrastructure monitoring software for Windows Server. It monitors network devices, servers, virtualization platforms, cloud services including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, applications, websites, logs, telemetry, and custom data using technologies such as SNMP, WMI, REST APIs, and scripts. NetCrunch supports 680+ monitoring targets and provides 270+ ready-to-use Monitoring Packs for devices, applications, and operating systems. Policy-based monitoring automatically applies monitoring settings, Monitoring Packs, thresholds, and alerts to matching devices and systems. Licensing is based on monitored nodes and network interfaces rather than individual sensors, checks, or metrics. Real-time dashboards and automatic Layer 2 and routing topology maps provide visibility into network status and performance. NetCrunch supports event correlation, dependency-aware alert suppression, predictive thresholds, escalation, and 40+ automated response actions, including script execution, notifications, webhooks, and integrations with external IT and collaboration tools. NetCrunch also provides hardware and software inventory, network device configuration backup and change tracking, bandwidth monitoring, and network traffic analysis using NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and other flow technologies. Distributed Monitoring Probes extend monitoring to remote and isolated locations, while REST APIs support integration and automation with external systems. NetCrunch is self-hosted on Windows Server and can monitor on-premises, air-gapped, cloud, and hybrid IT environments.