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What is Sematext Cloud?

Sematext Cloud offers comprehensive observability tools tailored for contemporary software-driven enterprises, delivering crucial insights into the performance of both the front-end and back-end systems.

With features such as infrastructure monitoring, synthetic testing, transaction analysis, log management, and both real user and synthetic monitoring, Sematext ensures businesses have a complete view of their systems. This platform enables organizations to swiftly identify and address significant performance challenges, all accessible through a unified cloud solution or an on-premise setup, enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Pricing

Price Starts At:
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Price Overview:
Flexible app-scoped pricing based on plan, volume, and retention selection, where each App can have a different plan, volume, and retention, giving you lots of control over costs with no overage fees.
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Free Trial Offered?:
Yes

Integrations

Offers API?:
Yes, Sematext Cloud provides an API

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Company Facts

Company Name:
Sematext Group
Date Founded:
2007
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
sematext.com
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Product Details

Deployment
SaaS
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Online Training
Webinars
On-Site Training
Support
Standard Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
English

Sematext Cloud Categories and Features

Website Monitoring Software

Availability Testing
Event Logs
Event-Based Notifications
FTP Monitoring
Mail Server Monitoring
Maintenance Scheduling
Performance Metrics
Real Time Monitoring
Transaction Monitoring
Uptime Reporting

System Monitoring Software

Alerts / Notifications
Antivirus Management
Data Backup / Recovery
Device Monitoring
Inventory Management
Patch Management
Policy-based Automation
Remote Monitoring
Reporting / Analytics
Risk Analysis
Server Monitoring
Service Configuration Management

Performance Testing Software

API Testing
Benchmarking
Cross Browser Testing
Debugging
Historical Reporting
Load Testing
Mobile Testing
Parallel Testing
Regression Testing
UI Testing
Web Testing

Network Troubleshooting Software

Alerts / Escalation
Bandwidth Troubleshooting
Change Management
Configuration Management
Connectivity Management
Data Visualization
Historical Audit
Mobile Network Troubleshooting
Network Analysis
Network Monitoring

Network Monitoring Software

Bandwidth Monitoring
Baseline Manager
Diagnostic Tools
IP Address Monitoring
Internet Usage Monitoring
Real Time Analytics
Resource Management
SLA Monitoring
Server Monitoring
Uptime Monitoring
Web Traffic Reporting

Network Mapping Software

Color Codes / Icons
Compliance Management
Device Auto Discovery
Hierarchical Mapping
Location-Based Mapping
Map Exporting
On-Demand Mapping
Reporting/Analytics
Self-Updating Maps
Web Traffic Reporting

Log Management Software

Archiving
Audit Trails
Compliance Reporting
Consolidation
Data Visualization
Event Logs
Network Logs
Remediation
Syslogs
Thresholds
Web Logs

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tool

Alerts / Notifications
Application Monitoring
Bandwidth Monitoring
Capacity Planning
Configuration Change Management
Data Movement Monitoring
Health Monitoring
Multi-Platform Support
Performance Monitoring
Point-in-Time Visibility
Reporting / Analytics
Virtual Machine Monitoring

IT Asset Management Software

Asset Tracking
Audit Management
Compliance Management
Configuration Management
Contract/License Management
Cost Tracking
Depreciation Management
IT Service Management
Inventory Management
Maintenance Management
Procurement Management
Requisition Management
Supplier Management

IT Alerting Software

Alert Noise Reduction
Alert Routing
Dynamic Notifications
Enriched Incident Context
Escalation Policies
Incident History Audit
Multi-User Alerting
Multiple Alert Types
On-Call Management
Rich HTML Email Notifications

Enterprise Architecture Software

Application Portfolio Management
Architecture Governance
Capability Mapping
Diagramming
Idea Management
Modeling & Simulation
Project Management
Risk Assessment
Transformation Roadmapping
Version Control

DevOps Software

Approval Workflow
Dashboard
KPIs
Policy Management
Portfolio Management
Prioritization
Release Management
Timeline Management
Troubleshooting Reports

Database Monitoring Tool

Anomaly Detection
Autodiscovery
Capacity Planning
Dashboard
Dependency Tracking
Historical Trend Analysis
Multitenancy
Notifications / Alerts
Performance Monitoring
Permissions / Access Controls
Predictive Analytics
Prioritization
Query Analysis
Resource Optimization
Troubleshooting

Bug Tracking Software

Backlog Management
Filtering
Issue Tracking
Release Management
Task Management
Ticket Management
Workflow Management

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Software

Baseline Manager
Diagnostic Tools
Full Transaction Diagnostics
Performance Control
Resource Management
Root-Cause Diagnosis
Server Performance
Trace Individual Transactions

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  • Reviewer Name: Kayra A.
    Position: Product Manager
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    A surprisingly powerful tool for synthetic monitoring

    Updated: Sep 22 2023
    Summary

    We totally trust Sematext's data it provides in analytics. It was easy to use and no major previous experience was needed to run this platform.

    The customer service team gave me the best support service.

    Positive

    Sematext is a powerful synthetic monitoring provider that allows one to dive deep into data to analyze everything about the hosted program. It doesn't need much initial setup. Also, this platform is easy to use.

    Negative

    It has less automation apart from the alerting option.

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  • Reviewer Name: Harsh P.
    Position: Product Manager
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Automated Solution for online services

    Date: Sep 21 2023
    Summary

    Sematext Cloud is a great automated solution for online services monitoring. It helps to save time and monitor every second. The plans are competitively priced and it is cost-effective.

    Positive

    Sematext Cloud is an automated monitoring solution that doesn't require anyone to stay 24 hours in front of the screen to monitor everything. It pre-set alerts triggers and sends emails and messages to the teams.

    Negative

    Had seamless experience, there is no downside to share.

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  • Reviewer Name: Ritesh K.
    Position: DevOps
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Highly Recommend Sematext Cloud

    Updated: Sep 20 2023
    Summary

    I loved how Sematext Cloud is built and gives you the ability to track and trace errors before they become too serious. It was so fun and easy to use. Overall I'm impressed with it's all abilities given in the small package.

    Positive

    The features I used and liked the most are.
    1. Easy integration with Amazon web service (AWS) monitoring.
    2. Helps to follow and trace the issues.
    3. Minimalistic user interface.
    4. Instant alerts on your team communication apps like Slack.
    5. Provides a history of logs. To understand what happened in previous days.

    Negative

    There is no major downside available on this platform.

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  • Reviewer Name: Virendra T.
    Position: Program Analyst
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Must try Sematext Cloud

    Date: Sep 22 2023
    Summary

    This product is user-friendly and their customer support is even better. They constantly get in touch whenever I face any problems with their platform.
    Overall a must-try software.

    Positive

    The dashboards come with packed data to help operate and track performance.
    Slack channel can integrated with this.
    Easy to extract KPIs from logs.
    Great filtering features to short millions of log data.

    Negative

    Log's data loading time is comparatively higher than other tools.

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  • Reviewer Name: Sanjita B.
    Position: DevOps Engineer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Robust and Versatile Tool

    Updated: Sep 16 2023
    Summary

    Sematext gives me peace of mind. It provides you with a top view of 24x7 monitoring where you can easily analyze the cloud application's performance and resource utilization. In usability, it's a great product. Overall, I highly recommend Sematext Cloud.

    Positive

    Sematext Cloud is a powerful tool that provides us a crystal-clear monitoring for our cloud applications. The dashboard is well organized and the user interface is very intuitive. Its pre-defined alerts are very useful and it works every time.

    Negative

    Till now there isn't anything that I don't like on Sematext. Kudos to their developer team.

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  • Reviewer Name: Jubin B.
    Position: Senior Product Manager
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Helps me to eliminate bottlenecks

    Date: Sep 22 2023
    Summary

    Sematext is a widely used observatory platform for infrastructure, database, network, Kubernetes and Server in our organization. Its scanner helps me to identify bottlenecks in the platform.

    Positive

    Sematext helps you to identify and eliminate bottlenecks.
    The platform's interface is easy to navigate.
    Send alert notifications in it's integrated Opsgenie app.
    Graphically represents uptime and downtime.

    Negative

    Slow data visualisation. This is the only con I found.

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  • Reviewer Name: Lavya K.
    Position: Operations Manager
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    It is a reliable tool

    Updated: Sep 20 2023
    Summary

    Sematext comes with a great team collaboration feature. It allows us to work together and keeps everyone aware of every event that happens. It's easy to use also. Overall, we are very happy with this product.

    Positive

    Sematext makes it easy to find any issue and assist with some common ways to fix it before the client or customers suffer.
    The user interface is intuitive from top to bottom of the screen.
    It allows multiple monitoring teams to collaborate.

    Negative

    It would be great if they offer more customizations in metrics monitoring.

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  • Reviewer Name: Dhruv P.
    Position: DevOps Engineer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Sematext has all the abilities that I want

    Date: Sep 22 2023
    Summary

    We use Sematext to monitor the health of our IT products. It always informs me whenever it detects unusual in cloud apps on my mobile and desktop apps. But it has a steep learning curve.

    Positive

    Sematext Cloud's Positives:

    1. Has integration support with more than twenty monitor platforms.
    2. Helps to find errors in SQL statements.
    3. Automated alerting when end users encounter any issue.
    4. Detailed waterfall chart with continuously updated resource data.

    Negative

    It has a steep learning curve. Takes time to understand its features.

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  • Reviewer Name: Gautmi K.
    Position: Software Developer
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Currently, no other platform is as powerful as Sematext

    Updated: Sep 21 2023
    Summary

    Sematext offers a robust monitoring solution that streamlines developer and maintenance teams in our company. Currently, no other platform is as powerful as Sematext Cloud.

    Positive

    The ability to track all around the IT products.
    Helps to track down the leakage/issues in the platform.
    Simple to deploy on your existing services.
    Reports and analytics are detailed and highly accurate.

    Negative

    Two things I don't like are,
    Doesn't provide much data when we monitor the website.
    Can't share extracted data in reports or charts.

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  • Reviewer Name: Mayank D.
    Position: Senior Developer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Performs extremely well for me

    Updated: Sep 19 2023
    Summary

    Sematext Cloud performed extremely well for us. The various features like alerts, cloud monitoring and docker log works great. Overall, it's a value for money and easy to use software. I highly suggest this to every IT professional.

    Positive

    Sematext Cloud combines and provides status and logs data in an organized manner in its monitoring dashboard. The user interface of Sematext is easily navigable. It offers an alert button. It instantly triggers when the pre-set data matches.

    Negative

    The software becomes laggy when I input multiple monitoring commands.

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  • Reviewer Name: Niharika Y.
    Position: System Analyst
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Very Helpful tool for fixing cloud issues

    Date: Sep 20 2023
    Summary

    Overall it's a must-have software for every tech business. It helps to scale your business and allows you to give a better experience to clients.
    It's a value for money platform.

    Positive

    Sematext Cloud is very helpful when troubleshooting issues with cloud servers. It provides an exact point where there is a problem and needs to be repaired. It allows us to understand user behavior and their needs on our platform.

    Negative

    It's a great product, didn't have any negative experiences.

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  • Reviewer Name: Karan B.
    Position: Frontend Developer
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    I wholeheartedly recommend Sematext Cloud

    Date: Sep 22 2023
    Summary

    Overall, I wholeheartedly recommend Sematext Cloud and its integrations. They are reliable, optimized and help you achieve your business goal. Loved it!

    Positive

    The ease of setup in on-premise was great. You just need to set some puzzles and you are good to go. Its synthetic monitor provides vital information about the user's journey. The Hipchat integration is very useful, while collaborating with coworkers I can check alert messages sent by Sematext guard in the same place.

    Negative

    Everything it offered me was positive. No complaints.

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  • Reviewer Name: Aditya N.
    Position: Frontend Developer
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Must have software

    Updated: Sep 21 2023
    Summary

    I'm extremely satisfied with this platform. It offers 20 plus features that help me to provide quality service to our clients. Its downtime indicator is also very helpful in analyzing the problems.

    Positive

    In my 5months of experience, I can say Sematext Cloud has the best synthetic monitoring capability. It helps us to diagnose and prevent any issue before it becomes problematic. It's SSL, DNS, and TCP monitoring works sufficiently.

    Negative

    Just one thing, sometimes the log screen freezes or slows down.

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  • Reviewer Name: Tanmay B.
    Position: Project Coordinator
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    It Become An Essential Tool For Our Business

    Date: Sep 22 2023
    Summary

    Sematext is a brilliant tool to have in the workplace. It helps to eliminate old-time manual log monitoring into a smart and automated system and also the usability of this platform is best in category.

    Positive

    It is now become an essential tool for our business. It shares unexplored and valuable data to understand where we need to focus and fix the optimization problem. The integration with Kubernetes gives much more data in a centralized dashboard.

    Negative

    Quite satisfied with Samatext. No dislike to share.

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  • Reviewer Name: Shardul S.
    Position: Senior Software Developer
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Sematext Cloud is an excellent tool

    Updated: Sep 20 2023
    Summary

    Sematext Cloud is a powerful software that enables a bird's eye view of monitoring cloud services. It keeps us updated and shares detailed performance reports. Overall, I suggest everyone to try this product.

    Positive

    I liked that we can filter and reduce the size of logs for quicker monitoring at the end of the day. It gives us the best user analysis.
    The metrics data it shares are in real time and accurate.
    Its customer department is very good.

    Negative

    One suggestion please add more third party software for alert notifications.

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  • Reviewer Name: Navnit U.
    Position: Product Designer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Helps you streamline IT monitoring

    Date: Sep 20 2023
    Summary

    We tried several IT infrastructure monitor software but we stick to Sematext due to it's robustness and ability to track every error.
    It provides valuable data that helps to run the business smoothly.

    Positive

    Sematext Cloud streamlines the monitoring data in one screen. It is extremely user friendly. I liked its automated alert feature. It notifies us on our Pagerduty accounts.
    It's synthetic monitoring works seamlessly.

    Negative

    Overall it's great software. I have no complaints.

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  • Reviewer Name: Rishav S.
    Position: IT Specialist
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Full stack API monitoring by Sematext Cloud...

    Date: Sep 22 2023
    Summary

    Overall Sematext Cloud is one such platform which working professionals must integrate with for scaling business & drive innovation in work.

    Positive

    Well As an user of Sematext Cloud I will definitely recommend it as best platform for API Monitoring & it's highly scalable, easy to setup, cost effective, productive for professionals.
    Sematext Cloud in my opinion is best tool present in market in comparison to other alternatives present.

    Negative

    As per my expertise Sematext Cloud lags frequent API upgrades & bugs monitoring but overall it's delivers best as promised.

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  • Reviewer Name: Lokesh N.
    Position: Backend Developer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Flexible monitoring software for mid-sized business

    Date: Sep 22 2023
    Summary

    Overall Sematext is fantastic software for medium-sized businesses. It is flexible which means you can design and integrate as per your needs. I highly advise every professional to try Sematext Cloud.

    Positive

    Sematext includes many different features for overviewing services you handle. Like app performance, log monitoring, and synthetic monitoring. The user experience I got was impressive. The layout was well-placed.

    Negative

    I haven't found any serious cons about this product.

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  • Reviewer Name: Marc T.
    Position: Technical Product Manager
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Database Monitoring is easy now with Sematext

    Date: Oct 16 2023
    Summary

    Overall, Sematext is a great help for our company so far and it is expending it's business and different technical things within the tool that would make this tool more useful in coming time. Some features we miss about the tool among hierarchical mapping, capacity planning and cost tracking. But the team is very efficient so i hope they will add these features soon in the Sematext Cloud. It's a good experience so far with this tool.

    Positive

    Sematext has helped us keeping a tight monitoring on our database and our cloud servers that helps us to stay updated with latest threats and any abnormality in our database or our cloud servers. It detects anomaly if there is any in a much lesser time and we can act upon it soon. Another thing that it monitor for us is the IT Infrastructure among which application monitoring and performance monitoring is included under it. Log Management is another feature of this tool which keeps up updated with audit trails, data visualisation and remediation.

    Negative

    Deployment with the tool is little tricky which would require their team to guide properly to get through all the features.

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  • Reviewer Name: Swati M.
    Position: Frontend Developer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Best observability you can find

    Updated: Sep 21 2023
    Summary

    Sematext Cloud is a very good observability platform to track the health of applications from time to time. Its tracker can be deployed in multiple locations. It shares the pinpoint location of the error that happened during release.

    Positive

    The greatest advantage of using Sematext Cloud is it includes all third-party log shippers like Rsyslog, Logstash, Fluentd and many others. The stats window is well organized with few customization possibilities. Provides real time alerts.

    Negative

    I'm using this for the last 8 months and honestly, there's nothing I dislike about it.

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