Chef is the configuration management tool. It helps in automation build, deploys and manages the CI pipeline and also provides the collaboration and makes clean and easy way for release.

Happy to use it for automatic deployment when someone else did the hard stuff to configure it.

Chef is the DevOps engineers first choice as it is having a large community in the current dedicated market place.

The architecture of chef server, chef client and chef nodes is difficult to understand for beginners ,Also it have lot of authentication access formalties for setup.

The build in templates for cloud and on-premises help to setup the configuration. Integration with different cloud and OS make it dynamic to flexible.

The support team is always on par and able to help me out.

Have numerous provided cookbook for almost solution and we just need to modify it.

Chef is a powerful platform which, once setup, permits to achieve a big efficiency on installation and configuration of complex middleware and software components, as well on deploying artefacts.

One of the best configuration management tools available in market, because of availability of wide varieties of extensions it helps you to write cookbooks for any kind of platforms.

There is no web console UI to update or manage the configurations.

Chef is probably the best solution for enterprise configuration management.

Setting up the environment is difficult and gives many errors which can be avoided by bringing more automation to the process.

Really liked that the ability that it allowed scaling to be done relatively easily and if I had any questions I got a response back quickly.

I like that you write cookbook where you define, how your virtual machine should work. It makes deployments easy and everything run as smooth as it should.

It's not a simple tool, which can lead to large code bases and complicated environments. Doesn't support push functionality.

Chef is one of the best and simplest tool for configuration management and automation for code infrastructures.

A good tool for management machine configurations and tracking infrastructure.

The automation capability of Chef makes it very easy to integrate CI/CD pipelines.

I for my self hate that mac is not supported as I do have to work on mac from time to time, so you are tied to windows and linux only.

Installation process is bit tricky, specially at the time of configuring master server for it. Master server can be setup on Linux/Unix machine.

The software has free updates which is awesome and the community board is very helpful. I would recommend this product to any IT environment that is looking for network monitoring solution.

The thing that I like least about the software is the inability of the administrator to manage other users views. And the lack of an anonymous view.

I have this on all my switch and SCADA network, on the switch I can break to see performance monitoring Switch interfaces, Utilization, Memory and CPU pretty simply, grouping is also a nice feature.

WUG is the best solution we have found for the price we are able to pay.

We haven't needed to utilize product support more than a couple of times, and they were very responsive and helpful when needed.

The UI and UX is terrible. The dashboards you can create are extremely limiting.

Adding non-default alerts seem to be a little more difficult than should be.

Ive used this product over 20 years. The last five years has seen this product grow and stabilize, with very good customer service.

Netflow integration, alert notifications,  ease of use.

When services fail, or if a machine crashes, we're notified quickly.

Goes without saying that it is easy to implement, intuitive and easy to manage. Dashboards and  views are.

Number of bugs and unending ads and pop up either up or down part of the application, which can be annoying and disturbing.

Great Value and ease of use for what we use it for.

It is hard to update the changed info. Also too hard to manage notifications.

Luckily he came up with the same results. I was able to display the same information (add more) on the big screen with WUG vs Solarwinds, so the CIO agreed to switch.

Out of the box it was easy to implement and provided much more clarity and features. It provides me with a proactive approach for when any monitored device hits a predetermined threshold.

An administrator should be able to back up the daily or weekly activities of his team for review but such feature is missing.

WhatsUp Gold works great for monitoring end points and alerting when they are out.

It integrates well with PagerDuty and covers the bulk of our monitoring needs.

I have had positive experiences with WhatsUpGold. The sales staff and tech support are friendly and knowledgeable.

Failed to recognize ios changes on our switches from ios 12 to 15. I had to remove the devices completely and add them back.

I use this product all day long, it is fantastic and quick to shows us when devices on our network are up or down.

Its great, really easy to use and allows IT to be more proactive about their environment. Its nicely displayed in our team area on a digital NOC.

Wonderful product and reasonably priced compared to other commercial solutions.

The thing that we liked the most about the software was the ease with onboarding this product and having it start to monitor our core infrastructure pieces.

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Chef Enterprise Automation Stack is a configuration management solution that helps DevOps teams streamline application development, infrastructure configuration and compliance auditing operations. It enables IT teams to automate infrastructure deployment processes through built-in validations, automated testing, and server data management capabilities.


The application allows users to streamline continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) operations. Features of Chef Enterprise Automation Stack include security management, collaboration, data analytics, reporting, an interactive dashboard and more. Additionally, professionals can use the platform to create, deploy and manage online applications across various IT infrastructures.


Chef Enterprise Automation Stack lets managers gain actionable insights into the application’s current state, identify and resolve issues and monitor system changes in real-time. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via phone, email, documentation and other online measures.



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Real Time Analytics

Real-Time Monitoring

Collaboration Tools

Continuous Deployment

Server Monitoring

Continuous Integration

Compliance Management

Real Time Data

Configuration Management

Real-Time Notifications

Real-Time Updates

Alerts/Notifications

Data Visualization

Dashboard

Real Time Reporting

Automatic Backup

Timeline Management

Release Management

Troubleshooting Reports

Email/Help Desk

FAQs/Forum

Knowledge Base

Phone Support

24/7 (Live Rep)

Chat

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11-50

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501-1000

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Progress WhatsUp Gold is the Network Monitoring Software that allows you to track performance information for network devices, servers, storage, and wireless - whether in the cloud or on-premises. Expand your management tool kit by adding proactive monitoring for network traffic, applications, virtual environments, and device configurations all through the same intuitive interface. Automatically discover and map your entire network and use customized dashboards to get the information you need to streamline

Email Monitoring

Email Alerts

Customizable Reports

Internet Usage Monitoring

Activity Tracking

IT Asset Management

Map Exporting

Real Time Monitoring

Virtual Machine Monitoring

IP Address Monitoring

Policy Management

Real-time Alerts

Baseline Manager

On-Demand Mapping

Resource Management

Scheduling

Event Logs

CPU Monitoring

Remote Monitoring & Management

Location-Based Mapping

Bandwidth Monitoring

Uptime Reporting

Network Analysis

Mobile Access

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Device Auto Discovery

Full Transaction Diagnostics

Performance Metrics

Hierarchical Mapping

Diagnostic Tools

Web Traffic Reporting

Real Time Notifications

Self-Updating Maps

Threshold Alerts

Activity Dashboard

Network Monitoring

Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management

Color Codes/Icons

Performance Analysis

Network Resource Management

Root Cause Analysis

Patch Management

Alerts/Escalation

Credential Management

Compliance Tracking

Reporting/Analytics

Monitoring

Remote Access/Control

Customizable Dashboard

Performance Monitoring

For MSPs

Application Management

For Websites

Available as a perpetual license or as a subscription.
Free Version is available for countries within Europe, Middle East and Africa. 

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