BizTalk360 Reviews & Product Details

We really like what BizTalk360 offers out of the box. Our biggest benefits are the auto-healing of artifacts, the possibility to link triggered alarms to external applications (Slack, Microsoft Teams, custom), the automatic refresh on artifact status, knowledge base and audit trail.

The knowledge base in particular provides us with invaluable knowledge sharing capabilities. This allows our support squad to solve any suspended artifacts quickly and efficiently without needing to consult the developers.

The auto-healing capabilities of the product also reduce the need for support to intervene in the first place. Especially out of business hours we have noticed a substantial positive impact.

The event viewer is another big advantage. Seeing the events of all nodes in one overview has proven to be a valuable addition to our monitoring capabilities.

We’ve contacted BizTalk360 support several times. Response time and feedback has been excellent every single time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Analysis is done based on tracking data. As we don’t track all messaging, this feature’s usability is greatly reduced in our case. Another data source for analysis would be welcomed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's been extremely helpful to get the alerts for health of the platform and accessibility to one portal to view the various logs and exceptions that are occurring. It helps us provide insight to our user base so they have the ability to view what is happening in their applications, without the need to contact Administrators. It helps them solve their own problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use the Exception Database a lot and we use the monitoring capabilities to alert users/application owners of exceptions that are occurring. There are certain limitations regarding what can be queried, which has required us to get creative with our query sets. There is also a limitation on terminating dehydrated instances, which is something we would find useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's great being able to fine tune access to applications based on the needs and responsibilities of the user. Very valuable when you have 50 applications managed by about a dozen different teams. It fills in the huge gap between the BizTalk Administrator and BizTalk Operator roles available through the BizTalk Console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Haven't used the Analytics part very much. The Windows service seems to consume a lot of CPU, but doesn't gather much info. It may just be that, as I new user (about a year), I don't know how to configure the Analytics part of function properly, but, at this point, it's not very useful at this point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are several features that we like:

1) The ability to secure different applications to their respective support teams.

2) The granularity of how security can be applied. For example, one support team should not be able to terminate messages for their application, but another one may have the requirement to do so.

3) Recently in our company we separated out the support of the BizTalk applications apart from the BizTalk platform. BT360 allows the application teams to support the applications without the need for Administrator rights to the BizTalk Servers.

4) The ability to customize your own dashboard so you can immediately see the health of the applications and the data that you are most interested in.

5) The monitoring capability of BT360 – for example, the ability for BT360 to restart host instances if for any reason any of them stop running. Another great example is the ability to set an alarm if a particular application has too many running messages. This can be a great alarm that something is amiss and may need to throttle the messages to prevent the server from hanging up.

6) How BT360 and BT health monitor can be integrated together. Though we haven’t set it up ourselves yet, we have it on our list to look into. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The inability to export data, especially for what AD groups have access to for security purposes. Once in a while it seems that we lose what a particular application was set to and would be nice to export that data as backup so we could restore it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BizTalk 360 is very user friendly for both Technical and business people. Easy to track things on the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Throttling Analyzer is not properly working sometimes as during our platform issue its not getting captured where we need to run BHM manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are in the midst of building a quite complex BizTalk platform, with a great number of BizTalk-Applications and even more Ports and Host instances. At the same time we have a lot of new releases on the platform almost every day, which are being tested right away by a big team. BizTalk360 allows us to make sure, that all necessary components in BizTalk are started or stopped, as the desired state is configured within BizTalk360 so the automated deployment and testing works as desired. Also the very easy-to-implement 'suspended message monitoring' is a great help, which allows us not to look at the BizTalk Console all the time.

Also the ability to monitor "BizTalk as a whole", meaning the inclusion of SQL-Server environment, Consolidated Event-Log entries and even resources of the individual machines are very helpful and easy to understand.

The best part for me personally is the ability to show message flows graphically, to understand which ports and orchestration are included in a particular interface, even beyond the borders of a single BizTalk Application. This helps to track items in a very complex environment, even for a non-BizTalk-developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although the inclusion of SQL-Server platform monitoring in BizTalk360 is a great help, the limitation to a maximum of 2 SQL-Servers hurts us in our highly available environment, spread over 9 SQL-Servers. I am hoping for an increase of this restriction in the future, to include all primary and secondary SQL-Server in our environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use this product mainly for monitoring by production support. So that we can timely respond to failures and suspended messages. Production support without much knowledge in BizTalk can use to resume or start or stop any receive or send locations based on the scenarios. Auto correction function is really helping us during network issues or outage issues. Advanced event viewer helps the production team a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product does have a learning curve, Some of the terminology was a little confusing like alarm. But with help of support articles it is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to monitor the biztalk services remotely and the flexible alert features are very impressive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be helpful if API calls are integrated with the package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are new to BizTalk and 360 so are just learning both products. So we are still at the configuration stage of 360 and are yet to use it in a production environment. When purchasing BizTalk we thought of 360 as a must buy product to be able to support and manage BizTalk effectively.

It is quick and easy to set up alarms and navigate through the BizTalk environment.

I think the custom dashboards will be very useful and it's good to have more control over user permissions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the terminology was a little confusing to start with e.g. an alarm is really the configuration of the channel and actual notification/alarm is configured in the mapping of that. But that's just because it was new and didn't seem obvious at first. Once understood it's really straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are several features that we like:

1) The ability to create new alarms, monitor Biztalk artifacts, web services, and trigger alerts in case of any discrepancies.

2) The granularity of how security can be applied. For example, one support team should not be able to terminate messages for their application, but another one may have the requirement to do so.

3) Auto-correct functionality in Biztalk360.

4) The ability to customize your own dashboard so you can immediately see the health of the applications and the data that you are most interested in.

5) Analytics set for message patterns used by the support team to identify the flow and monitor Biztalk server performance.

6) Analytics set for message patterns which are used by the support team to identify the flow and Biztalk server performance which is monitored by the support team.

7) Ability to store and execute secure SQL queries.

8) Ability to use the monitoring dashboard to view the status of the mapped artifacts in a nice dashboard view.

9) Ability to view and enable monitoring of CPU usage, Memory usage, disk space, event logs, and system resources of the Biztalk node.

10) Ability to view infrastructure settings like topology, host instances, MessageBox, Biztalk servers, SQL servers, Tracking Manager.

11) Ability to view access health check tools to view backup and disaster recovery configuration.

12) Ability to view the graphical flow of the message.

13) Ability to view and export message flow patterns using analytics.

14) Ability to customize user-based permissions on the Biztalk environment.

15) The monitoring capability of BT360 – for example, the ability for BT360 to restart host instances if for any reason any of them stop running. Another great example is the ability to set an alarm if a particular application has too many running messages. This can be a great alarm that something is amiss and may need to throttle the messages to prevent the server from hanging up.

16) Ability to view and query on tracked service instances and tracked message events directly from Biztalk360. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The analytics module gives much information, but the information is difficult to filter to the required level. Unable to view API documentation even though having a platinum license. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.