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Sematext Cloud Overview

What is Sematext Cloud?

Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solutions for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reduce the time of root-cause-analysis, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.

Sematext Cloud Details
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Product Description

Sematext is a globally distributed organization that builds innovative Cloud and On Premise solutions for infrastructure and application performance monitoring and log management.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

By combining metrics, tracing, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and logs, your DevOps team gets a single pane of glass for operational and performance data. This means you can troubleshoot production issues that may be affecting your business/sales and get insights about all your infrastructure much faster than gluing together multiple tools, whether open-source or commercial.

With no hidden fees and flexible App-based pricing based on plan, volume, and retention selection, where each App can have a different plan, volume, and retention, you control the cost.


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Sematext
Year Founded
2007
HQ Location
Brooklyn, NY
Twitter
@sematext
3,873 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
19 employees on LinkedIn®

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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The best tool for monitoring desktop performance"
Sematext Cloud is the lead tool in my portfolio thta has enahnced smooth operations of computers on my network infrastructure. It offers suitable i...
Ganesha B.
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Ganesha B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Amazing tool to monitor your workloads"
Very user-friendly tool to monitor all your workloads, my team uses this to manage all the workloads. You can set, metrics, status dashboards, and ...
Daniel A.
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Daniel A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A next generation monitoring tool"
The best feature of Sematext is the ability to query the response header and look for specific text values. This allows us to remotely monitor if, ...
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Sematext Cloud Media

Sematext Cloud Demo - Real User Monitoring
Sematext Experience allows you to deliver better digital experiences for your users.
Sematext Cloud Demo - Synthetic Monitoring
Sematext Synthetics allows you to monitor availability of your APIs and websites.
Sematext Cloud Demo - Sematext Experience
Sematext Experience records the loaded resources (images, fonts, stylesheets, javascript files) and the associated loading times.
Sematext Cloud Demo - Log Management
Sematext Logs is a unified log management solution that offers real-time log analysis, available in the cloud or on-premises. Sematext Logs is a fully managed ELK in the Cloud and lets you store, index, and search all kinds of logs (server logs, container logs, application logs, mobile app logs…)...
Sematext Cloud Demo - Infrastructure Monitoring
Map and monitor your whole infrastructure in real-time with Sematext Monitoring tools, on-premise or in the cloud.
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Adnan K.
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Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sematext Cloud?

I like its intuitive UI and ease of integration, agent installation, and detailed reposts, The documentation provided is more than enough to complete that task, and its friendly and amazing support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sematext Cloud?

User management is difficult to handle hence it needs improvement, I am not able to utilize a full-featured code profiler, and it's a bit more expensive than its alternatives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sematext Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provided all-in-one monitoring solutions for logs to analytics, it remove the hassle of log management and monitoring multiple APIs at the same time at different platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Otis Gospodnetic of Sematext Cloud

Thank you for reviewing Sematext, Adnan, and recognizing the time and effort we put into our customer support. :) Regarding the price, please note the infrastructure monitoring, and this includes container and Kubernetes monitoring, package inventory, host inventory, etc. is only $3.6/host/month without any contracts, month to month, and we now offer an annual discount.

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Veerendra G.
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Hospital & Health Care
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What do you like best about Sematext Cloud?

1. Easy to use with default dashboards

2. log Pipelines are very helpful in dropping or masking sensitive data

3. Great support and friendly

4. Become easier after migrating to the team account Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sematext Cloud?

1. still learning

2. log search sometimes does not pick up phrases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sematext Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need continuous application monitoring and logging to ensure we get a notification in case of any failure. Now we have that notification(slack) and can resolve any issues before they affect our clients/Customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Monahan of Sematext Cloud

Hi Veerendra,

Thank you for the review, very pleased to see that we are providing such value. Our Customer Success Managers and support team are always happy to jump on a call to answer any questions or share some best practices, don't hesitate to reach out to them for a live learning session.

We will continue to improve and add to our platform.

Best regards,

Sean

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What do you like best about Sematext Cloud?

We were using a competing cloud solution but found that the features in the competing solution lacked the required insight to notify our support team of issues promptly. We signed up for a free trial with Sematext and were immediately rewarded with a cleaner and more robust dashboard and accurate notification process for our environment at a price point that was also better than our current solution. Needless to say, it was an easy decision to switch to Sematext. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sematext Cloud?

To be honest, we have not found any problems with our implementation of the Sematext Synthetic solution thus far. We have been experiencing accurate alert notifications for our critical websites so we can take immediate action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sematext Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a more robust solution than our current monitoring cloud service could provide. This enabled accurate alert notifications for our critical websites so we can take immediate action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Monahan of Sematext Cloud

Hi there, thanks a lot for taking the time to leave us a review. We are glad to hear it was an easy decision and that we are providing you with a solution that meets your needs. We will be continuously adding new features and improving our synthetics solution as we go. You can sign up to our newsletter to receive product updates through the footer of our webpage: https://sematext.com/

Verified User in Oil & Energy
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What do you like best about Sematext Cloud?

We are mainly using it for debugging of aggregated logs. It does that perfectly well, filtering and searching works great.

It was easy to setup (using logagent as our forwarder).

We use alerts based on certain messages to alert our DevOps team of potential incidents.

We use a few dashboards for viewing the frequency of certain logs based on filters.

From a price point of view, it is great for us as our logging demands are not high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sematext Cloud?

It would be great if it had smart detection of the most common phrases or messages in within logs.

When you have a lot of logs, the UI is very jumpy to scroll through.

It cuts logs from the view when you view a large range at once.

The log search sometimes doesn't pick up phrases or words Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sematext Cloud:

Simple and effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sematext Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Debugging and alerting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Otis Gospodnetic of Sematext Cloud

Hi. Thank you for your review. We'd love to address the niggles you mentioned. I don't see your name here in the review unfortunately. It would be great if you could get in touch with us at support@sematext.com or via our live chat so could show us everything that you would like us to improve.

DH
Chief Technology Officer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Sematext Cloud?

It has all the features we needed, is intuitive to implement and only took about 2 hours to get our first Synthetic Monitoring set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sematext Cloud?

We had a little trouble with the PagerDuty integration but the Sematext support folks helped troubleshoot the problem and figured out that Pager Duty was dropping some of the alerts when similar alerts came in before the previous ones were resolved. Great support from Sematext on that one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sematext Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need continuous monitoring of our app to ensure we get a notification if / when one of the critical functions doesn't respond properly. Now we have that notification and can resolve any issues before they affect our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Komal J.
KJ
Software Developer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sematext Cloud?

Sematext Cloud provides the best APM characteristics to visualize our organization's architecture, its state of operation, and health status in its dashboard. Troubleshooting is done fast with the help of its user logs, metrics, and traces in a single unified view. Using Application token and API keys, we gain effective control over our log access, and each log is encrypted with TLS/SSL standards. It provides real-time anomaly detection whenever there is a drastic deviation in log counts. Archiving these logs is also effortless thanks to its seamless integration with Amazon S3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sematext Cloud?

There are various E-mail and subscription types available in its E-mail Report feature from which we can define report time, frequency, and range for automated report generation. Customization features are also available in which we can assign a brief meta name, unique URL, and description for report identification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sematext Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sematext Cloud is beneficial to us for our Deliant application & infrastructure monitoring commitments. It gives extensive inventory monitoring, which tracks all our configurations, obtains data from servers, and groups it into a set for quick access and easy identification. It also provides our database operations report for MySQL and PostgreSQL having explicit insights and operations executed in our database engines. Sematext agent installed for our NGINX and Tomcat servers tracks essential metrics such as CPU, memory, network, and disk availability and displays them on a single screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KD
Director of Managed Services Delivery
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sematext Cloud?

I've used similar monitoring solutions for years to monitor website uptime and performance and can say that Sematext is leaps and bounds ahead of the competition. Sematext's Synthetics offering specifically gives users the ability to create customized scripts to dig into website availability and ensure that all components are functioning as expected. Sematext support is incredibly responsive as well, typically responding same day to requests! Plenty of custom integrations to choose from as well, from Slack and MS Teams to solutions like Opsgenie as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sematext Cloud?

Admin logging in the Sematext interface needs some work, but to Sematext's credit they have enhancing it on their roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sematext Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Primarily website uptime and availability, ensuring the ecommerce applications we support are available for use 24x7x365. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

William R.
WR
Founder
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Sematext Cloud?

Sematext was super simple to setup and autodiscovered everything for me and I was setup in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sematext Cloud?

The menus were a little bit overwhelming at first with alot of different products but I was quickly able to figure it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sematext Cloud:

Having used several other monitoring solutions Sematext has been the best in terms of cost, flexibility and features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sematext Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using Sematext to monitor my production servers, sematext can fully monitor my web servers & my docker containers to help me keep a close eye on my business critical items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steve F.
SF
vp r&d
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sematext Cloud?

Nice and easy synthetics, standard puppeteer api rather than a proprietary language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sematext Cloud?

AWS only synthetic endpoints at present but totally understand why given the time they have been in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sematext Cloud:

If your looking to make cost savings and moving away from the enterprise log/synthetic/apm vendors Sematext is a great option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sematext Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Massive cost savings over the enterprise synthetic solutions out there. Forgiving contracts that dont massively penalise you for overages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Wholesale
AW
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sematext Cloud?

Simlple interface and setup

Trial Period

Helpful one to one asssitance

Does what it needs to do

sure will do more if we chose to expand footprint of use

If it good value against other products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sematext Cloud?

Nothing i am very happy with it meeting the needs

could of small GUI issues but they are very minor, reported and aware of new features from support/in product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sematext Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Monitoring 80 web sites across multiple support partners

Managing our SSL certificate expiry dates

Saves me loads of time

Simple status page i can monitor from mobile anytime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.