License Comparison

Feature by Feature comparison of WebWatchBot Enterprise vs. Professional.

Feature

WebWatchBot License Type

Professional

Enterprise

Maximum Watch Items ²

Unlimited

Dependencies

Depend on one or more other Watch Items.

Dependent actions - stop, start, trigger or reset alarm actions, i.e. email alerts.

WebWatchBot Online - Web Based GUI

Explorer View – Create, edit, delete, run, suspend, activate, and view the last output of Watch Items and Transactions.

Reports View – Create, edit delete, run, and view recent output of reports.

Status View – Viewable Status report.

User Administration ?Administer users and assign access types.

General

Dashboard - Metrics and KPI (Key Performance Indicators)

Scheduling - Schedule Maintenance Periods and Reports

Contacts - Users and Groups for Email Alerts

SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 - Scalable Data Storage for WebWatchBot

Web Application Monitoring

Transactions - Monitor web applications, including logins, forms, redirects, tokens, and more

Transaction Recorder - Record multiple actions. No scripting required

Session State - Dynamically detect and change Session State in Transactions

Tokens - Dynamically detect and persist tokens, e.g. Apache Struts, in Transactions

Improved form data persistence in Transactions

Website Monitoring

HTTP (Web Page)

HTTPS (Secure SSL)

Record Form Post Data

Dynamic Search - Search content using strings, HTML tags, regular expressions

Server Monitoring

ERT (Email Round Trip) *New in 8*

SMTPS (Outgoing email secure) *New in 8*

IMAP (Incoming email) *New in 8*

IMAPS (Incoming email secure) *New in 8*

Database (Connect, Query, Search Results)

SMTP (Outgoing Email)

POP3 (Incoming Email)

FTP

SFTP (Secure FTP)

DNS

Performance Counters, e.g. CPU, Memory

Network Monitoring

Port (Citrix, router, etc.)

Trace Route

SNMP (Simple Network Monitor Protocol)

Alerting

Send detailed email alerts

SMS*

Escalation Rules - Set tiered actions based on failures and successes

Repeat an alarm action

Execute a command .exe or load another URL

Reporting

Expanded and Redesigned Reporting

Create Reports for Everything, a pre-defined group, or individually monitored items

Easily Organize and Manage Reports

Create reports from multiple WebWatchBot Instances

Status Report - Continuously updated health status report

Detailed scheduling of reports

Automatically email reports

Pre-defined and customizable reporting in HTML, CSV, or XML

Run and attach a report to alert emails

Real-Time Charting

Chart one or more watch items in real-time

Customize chart look-and-feel with automatically saved settings

Increase or decrease chart data points on the fly

Export chart to Bitmap or Metafile

Export data to text file

Performance Charting

Customize chart look-and-feel with automatically saved settings

Export chart to Bitmap or Metafile

Export data to text file

Compare one or more watch item

Group data based on hour of day

Group data based on day of week

Group data based on day of month

Show trend in data based on hour of day

Show trend in data based on day of week

Show trend in data based on day of month

Show all time response time average

Logging

Complete and detailed logging

View log in real-time

Perform trace route on failure

Monitoring Configuration

Set monitoring frequency between once a second and once a year

Set failure thresholds with customizable alerts

Connectivity Monitor

Configuration

Import/Export - configuration and settings for transfer or backup

Detailed maintenance period scheduling

Remote Connection

Advanced

WebWatchBot WS (Web Services)

¹ One license is required per installation of WebWatchBot. One installation may monitor other servers that do not have WebWatchBot installed.

²
(A Watch Item is a single URL, IP Addresses, port, ping, process, service, etc.)
Unlimited: There is no restriction to the number of monitored items. Your results may vary based upon factors such as concurrently executing programs, processes, and services. Additionally, each Watch Type, e.g., ping, port, http, etc., affects performance differently based on the resources needed to execute.