
The alarms and notifications are the most useful from an administrative perspective. The auto-correct functionality saves a lot of time and headaches. Exposing BizTalk application administration to specific groups and users is also extremely helpful. Many users need to access BizTalk app information, but most should not have full administrative access. BizTalk360 fills this gap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I have no significant dislikes of BizTalk360. Its functionality suits its intended purpose. I sometimes see only minor UI issues, usually addressed by the development team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When first starting with BizTalk360, we were able to quickly ramp up and set up basic monitoring. This enables us to quickly detect issues with underlying infrastructure, as well as individual suspended or retrying instances in our BizTalk environment. Over time, finetuning and extending the monitoring and alarms proved easy and quick to do. Having only two team members, both for operational support and new feature development, we found the monitoring functionality to be lightweight in setup and maintenance, easy to avoid overly sensitive alerts, and most importantly actionable at the right time.
But perhaps even better than the product itself, is the support from the Kovai product team. With their periodic review meetings, and openness to feature requests, they are truly customer-focused, and actively moved the product forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
In some use cases, we like to set up parallel monitoring for alerts to the BizTalk support team, as well as to other development and functional teams that rely on BizTalk's server. In these cases, alerting threshold currently need to be duplicated for these separate alarm configurations, resulting in double work. We feel such logic may better be configured once, and utilized in multiple alarms (i.e. notification targets). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
BizTalk has been around for many years, but even within the 2020 version the BizTalk Administration Console is very limited, BizTalk 360 is a huge upgrade from that for operations and the pro-active monitoring and alerts are fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The only downside is that you have to refresh your license manually each time you continue to use it, would be nice if it could auto refresh that online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy and straightforward to setup, GUI layout is logical and intuitive, functions are grouped together in a useful way. BT360 runs smoothly and reliably, it produces nice and easily readable reports and alerts, and provides a nice quick overview of the current state of BizTalk for easily determining at a glance if anything needs further attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Given the sheer breadth of features on offer, some of them don't achieve much depth, the major one being SFTP monitoring which is rudimentary at best. Other than that, there really aren't any other faults to be found with BT360. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As a developer, BT360 is the only insight I have to the production system. BT360 allows me to troubleshoot issues before pulling in our DBA team, which in turn reduces the load on our DBAs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
At times, it can be difficult to find what I am looking for within the user interface. However, I believe this is partially due to the infrequency I use the system, as I only use it for Production when an issue arises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's easy to add alerts for any of the BizTalk components that you want to monitor in order to keep an eye on the health of your system. The Desktop is quite intuitive to use. The follow up support has been fantastic, they are very proactive with their regular quarterly checkins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is no way currently no direct mechanism to monitor the status of business rules, having said that, they did work with us and we found a way to do this with some powershell scripting. Why would we want to do this? To confirm that the business rules have all been published after a deploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
BizTalk360 monitors all our BizTalk ports, automatically re-enables them in case of failure and notifies us via email. We are also using it to auto-resume suspended messages. Previously, we were reactive, and BizTAlk360 helps us to be proactive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We have only had a positive experience with this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We have been using BizTalk360 Monitoring for the last 10 years and have found it extremely useful in monitoring our Production Environment as we have no direct access to our Production environment. BizTalk360 helps us monitor and take limited automated/manual actions in enabling ports, hosts, etc. Also it helps us in getting details of any failures that have occurred in the environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I cannot think of any as BizTalk360 is a helpful supplement to BizTalk Admin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.