About Sematext Cloud
Sematext Cloud is an all-in-one observability tool that helps businesses assess and gain key insights into the front and back-end performance of system applications. Features include real user and synthetic monitoring, transaction tracing, infrastructure monitoring, and log management. It also enables organizations to identify key performance issues via actionable analytics.
Sematext Cloud allows enterprises to detect potential anomalies across the system and receive automated alerts via emails, mobile push notifications, and other ChatOps including Slack, PagerDuty, and more. Developers can view the list of available assets or servers, filter them based on tags, conduct audits of all software packages, and utilize the search functionality to retrieve specific details from the repository.
Sematext Cloud offers an API, which enables businesses to integrate the platform with various third-party applications such as Docker, Hashicorp Nomad, Redis, Nginx, and more. The software also helps users monitor network topology, site performance, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), containers, user experience, and resource management processes on a centralized platform.
Pricing starting from:
US$9.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
United States
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
US$9.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Sematext Cloud: 87
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- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A cool managed service coming from seemingly technically versed people
Reviewed on 31/10/2017
Easy setup, no-headache operations, flexible and instant sizing and fantastic technical support
Easy setup, no-headache operations, flexible and instant sizing and fantastic technical support
Pros
Fantastic technical support, even feature requests (for sematext-agent) were sometimes implemented within hours. Sematext even setup its EU data center (partly) on our request. Thank you very much!
Cons
Business arrangements like a custom contract or plan sizes are not so easy and speedy to "implement" - but that's only a non-technical issue in the case of bigger probably public corporations.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
One stop solution for infrastructure insights!
Reviewed on 24/09/2020
I used this to manage my infra and this has really helped me a lot to understand the usage pattern...
I used this to manage my infra and this has really helped me a lot to understand the usage pattern of the app and also helps in safely predicting when the load will be high and when it will be low. Finding out memory leaks for JVM has also been very easy when I was trying to get insights about GC and JVM pool.
Pros
- Very detailed reports
- Installing an agent happens in a jiffy
- Very intuitive UI
- Good support from the Sematext team
Cons
- Documentation missing for old agents - Ubuntu < 16
- Agent once crashed - cause is still unknown!
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DatadogReasons for Choosing Sematext Cloud
I wanted to get a detailed report of each of the metrics over a time period. Sematext does that. Also for JVM monitoring I couldn't get anything better than this.Switched From
SensuReasons for Switching to Sematext Cloud
JVM monitoring just stole the deal for me. Also, the help from their support team while I was setting it up on my production instances - it was amazing.Response from Sematext Group
Hey Debodirno! Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback. If there's anything else we can help you with, feel free to reach out!
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Worth switching from other logging aggregation
Reviewed on 24/09/2020
Satisfied but need more time to evaluate
Satisfied but need more time to evaluate
Pros
I just switch from ELK. Sematext is a surprise to me. It is so easy to integrate and so easy to use. The web UI is so intuitive and the query syntax is so easy to use even if you are not a technical guy. Compared to ELK, it is a real cloud service, you never need to worry about you lose the logs .
Cons
I haven’t found so far. Only thing is the price is a little bit high for a standup.
Response from Sematext Group
Hey Chao! Thanks a lot for your feedback. If you ever have any questions regarding how to manage your pricing and keep costs optimized, feel free to reach out to our team in the Sematext live chat.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
IoT log monitoring made easy
Reviewed on 25/09/2020
We have been monitoring a fleet of IoT devices with Sematext.
Using it we can quickly send data...
We have been monitoring a fleet of IoT devices with Sematext.
Using it we can quickly send data from the devices and analyze it later, making feature development faster and debugging way easier.
Pros
Easy to use and extremely fast to filter log data.
Ready-to-use Java and Android libraries made integration a very fast process.
Main UI is very similar to Kibana, and it also provides the full experience if you need it.
Fast and knowledgeable tech support.
Cons
There are rare instances where the UI becomes unresponsive or slow.
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Elastic StackReasons for Switching to Sematext Cloud
We needed a self-managed/cloud solution to focus on our product and Sematext enabled a very fast integration.- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Much More Than Log Aggregation
Reviewed on 24/09/2020
Sematext is a proven and reliable offering, without a single outage I can recall in the past 2.5...
Sematext is a proven and reliable offering, without a single outage I can recall in the past 2.5 years. The customer support is amazing and queries are answered without fail within a couple of hours. They are constantly working on the product and increasing their offerings. They offer customers the chance to trial new products and give feedback, which is fantastic.
We use Sematext for:
* Log Aggregation
* Monitoring and Alerting
* Incident Investigation
* Log Retention
* Debugging
I love how we can easily set up alerts on logs and receive Slack or OpsGenie notifications when events occur. I would highly recommend Sematext as a vendor.
Pros
* Super Reliable
* Excellent Customer Support
* Constantly Adding Features
* Constantly Improving
Cons
There are very few things not to like about this software and company.
The way accounts are set up, where you have to log in then "become" the account owner to see your logs is strange, and needs to be explained to each new user.
Response from Sematext Group
Hey! Thanks a lot for your feedback regarding the RBAC. We've worked on several improvements in the way you can configure account permissions for every member of a team. Feedback like this help us a lot to understand what should be improved. Thanks again!
Sematext Cloud FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Sematext Cloud.Q. What type of pricing plans does Sematext Cloud offer?
Sematext Cloud offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$9.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Sematext Cloud offers a 14-day free trial, after which the software is available based on selected modules, as outlined below: Logs: * Basic - Available for free * Standard - $50 per month * Pro - $60 per month Monitoring: Container monitoring: * Basic - Available for free * Standard - $0.007 per container per hour *Pro - $0.011 per container per hour App & Server monitoring: * Basic - Available for free * Standard - $0.035 per agent per hour * Pro - $0.070 per agent per hour Experience: * Startup - $9 per month * Standard - $19 per month * Pro - $89 per month Synthetics: * Pay-as-you-go - $5 per month * Standard - $29 per month * Pro - $99 per month
Q. Who are the typical users of Sematext Cloud?
Sematext Cloud has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Sematext Cloud support?
Sematext Cloud supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Sematext Cloud support mobile devices?
Sematext Cloud supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Sematext Cloud integrate with?
Sematext Cloud integrates with the following applications:
Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, BigPanda, Docker, Elastic Stack, Jenkins, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, MongoDB, MySQL, Nagios XI, PagerDuty, Red Hat Process Automation Manager, Scala, Slack, Splunk On-Call, Squadcast, Telegram, Twilio, Ubuntu Server GUI, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Sematext Cloud offer?
Sematext Cloud offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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