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Description

Improving business outcomes involves making it easier to spot and address high-priority incidents. The WatchTower Platform serves as a comprehensive observability tool that streamlines incident resolution specifically within mainframe environments by effectively integrating and correlating events, data flows, and metrics across various IT silos. It provides a cohesive and intuitive interface for operations teams, allowing them to optimize their workflows. Leveraging established AIOps solutions, WatchTower is adept at detecting potential problems at an early stage, which aids in proactive mitigation. Additionally, it utilizes OpenTelemetry to transmit mainframe data and insights to observability tools, allowing enterprise SREs to pinpoint bottlenecks and improve operational effectiveness. By enhancing alerts with relevant context, WatchTower eliminates the necessity for logging into multiple tools to gather essential information. Its workflows expedite the processes of problem identification, investigation, and incident resolution, while also simplifying the handover and escalation of issues. With such capabilities, WatchTower not only enhances incident management but also empowers teams to proactively maintain high service availability.

Description

Bronto serves as a cloud-based observability solution designed for the collection, search, and analysis of application telemetry data. It consolidates logs, metrics, and distributed traces into a comprehensive managed service, enabling engineering and operations teams to filter information using SQL, monitor live log streams, link logs with traces, and create custom dashboards and alerts. The platform is compatible with OpenTelemetry for data ingestion and integrates seamlessly with various cloud services, application environments, data pipelines, and alerting systems. Users have the ability to store and query telemetry data, conduct incident investigations, monitor service-level objectives, and produce AI-enhanced reports based on alerts. Furthermore, Bronto offers API access and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to facilitate programmatic workflows and AI client interactions. This platform is particularly beneficial for software developers, DevOps/SRE, and platform engineering teams, catering to organizations that require a unified observability solution for their applications, infrastructure, and AI workloads, thus enhancing their operational efficiency.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

OpenTelemetry Yes 
Amazon CloudWatch No 
Apache Kafka No 
Claude No 
Docker No 
Fluent Bit No 
Kubernetes No 
Model Context Protocol (MCP) No 
PagerDuty No 
PostgreSQL No 
SYSVIEW Performance Management Yes 
Slack No 
Vercel No 

Integrations

OpenTelemetry Yes 
Amazon CloudWatch Yes 
Apache Kafka Yes 
Claude Yes 
Docker Yes 
Fluent Bit Yes 
Kubernetes Yes 
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Yes 
PagerDuty Yes 
PostgreSQL Yes 
SYSVIEW Performance Management No 
Slack Yes 
Vercel Yes 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

$25/month
Starter is $25/month and includes 1 TB of monthly ingest, a 20 TB search allowance, and 12-month log retention. Pro is $500/month and includes 5 TB of monthly ingest, a 500 TB search allowance, and 12-month log retention. Enterprise pricing is custom, with ingest at $0.10/GB and search at $1/TB. Starter and Pro include 14-day free trials. Overages are $0.10/GB ingested and $1/TB searched; Bronto discusses overages with customers before charging.
Free Trial Yes 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars Yes 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Broadcom

Country

United States

Website

www.broadcom.com/products/mainframe/watchtower-observability

Vendor Details

Company Name

Bronto

Founded

2024

Country

Ireland

Website

bronto.io

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