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What is SolarWinds AppOptics?
SolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.
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- Application monitoring (30)8.585%
- Database monitoring (28)7.575%
- Application performance management console (26)7.070%
- Threshold alerts (26)6.363%
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What is SolarWinds AppOptics?
SolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.
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What is SolarWinds AppOptics?
SolarWinds® AppOptics™ is presented by the vendor as a SaaS-based simple, powerful and affordable Infrastructure & Application monitoring for custom on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems.
Full-stack visibility – Monitor the health and performance of custom on-premises and highly distributed cloud applications across services, hosts, containers, and platforms down to the code.
Reduce MTTR – Monitoring infrastructure and application metrics side-by-side reduces the time it takes to identify what part of the stack is failing, so you can quickly get to the root cause.
Auto-instrumented Root Cause – Quickly pinpoint issues; Automatically presents the most likely cause of a performance problem. Takes the guesswork out of troubleshooting.
Simple Setup – Up and running in minutes, easy to use and a minimal learning curve for IT professionals.
Integration that matters– Cohesive end to end monitoring that enables maximum observability from metrics, to traces, and down to logs.
Align your performance goals with business goals – Incorporate custom metrics to combine business metrics side-by-side with system metrics. See and measure the impact infrastructure and application performance has on your business performance.
Highly scalable – Cost-effectively scale as your business scales with analytics and trend reporting, providing you with insights into short- and long-term changes to performance and resource utilization.
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SolarWinds AppOptics Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | .Net, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Scala, Node |
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SolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.
Reviewers rate Application monitoring highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of SolarWinds AppOptics are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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December 31, 2022
AppOptics+loggly is cost-effective.
We used SolarWinds Loggly in our project for application monitoring. So we thought to have SolarWinds AppOptiocs for infra monitoring, so all details are in one place.
- easy to set up with AWS.
- UI design is straight forward , make it easy to get up to speed.
- price is good compare to others (for small to mid-size infra needs).
- integration with other tools.
- pricing structure should be more flexible.
December 15, 2022
AppOptics: A must-have for a startup
As an early-stage startup, we were looking for a solution that offered the following: Automated alerts Performance monitoring Request tracing Monitor 3rd party services AppOptics provides all of this functionality at a much lower price than its competitors such as NewRelic or Instana. We have been using them for over a year to monitor our application and AWS infrastructure. We have been very satisfied with their product. It has helped us identify various performance issues, resource bottlenecks, and issues with downstream services. In case of issues in our infrastructure or downstream services, it has helped us resolve the issue with low turnaround times. We have given access to this tool to our entire engineering team. Additionally, we have set up automated alerting and configured it to notify us through OpsGenie. UPDATE Dec-2022: It has been 2.5 years since the first review. We are still using AppOptics and we continue to reap the benefits that we have listed above.
- Request tracing with code profiling.
- Automated alerting on latency and response codes for each API.
- Low resource overhead while collecting data from our application servers.
- Highly performant dashboard that enables us to make progress rapidly.
- Very resilient. We have not seen a downtime in their service in the entire year that we have used them.
- Identify database and cache requests that are taking longer than expected
- Monitoring and alerting for downstream services can be improved significantly.
- They can make it easier and faster to setup alerts for the infrastructure and application.
December 14, 2022
Master Player just Born
SolarWinds AppOptics is being analysed to be used as a potential Cloud Services Monitoring tool - and on a side note, also being analysed on how effectively AppOptics can be leveraged to to APM things such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace does. So we are proposing SolarWinds AppOptics to our client as the new technology monitoring tool for cloud infra, primarily.
- Cloud Service Monitoring
- New Technologies Monitoring such as Containers Docker
- APM
- GCP is not Supported
- Oracle is not Supported
- No Integration available with Service Now
December 13, 2022
A Great Product for an Affordable Price.
We currently utilize SolarWinds AppOptics for both infrastructure and application performance monitoring. We mainly use it to see application errors, and locate any issues that cause other than optimal performance in the application. We provide the information gathered from SolarWinds AppOptics to our application support/development/configuration management and database administration teams to take corrective action on what may be causing the errors or other than optimal performance. SolarWinds AppOptics is an affordable solution to monitoring your application's performance.
- Identifies errors experienced by our end users.
- Locates application errors.
- Provides insight into our end users' overall application experience.
- Allows us to know that our application performance monitoring solutions is in good hands.
- Not applicable.
- SolarWinds AppOptics is a solid, affordable product on par with other APMs I've used in the past.
September 24, 2022
AppOptics - Monitoring tool for emerging organisations.
We use AppOptics to monitor performance, error rate, latency, database activity, and remote calls of our applications. We use this to monitor applications running on NodeJS (Express/HAPI), Java servlet, and services running on tomcat. It provides insight into the number of requests per second, errors coming in, and some information about JMX and database parameters. This helps us debug issues, slowness, and unexpected events with ease and speed.
- Application Monitoring.
- API monitoring.
- Bifurcation of time consumed for result.
- Remote calls monitoring.
- Database query monitoring.
- Dashboard.
- Ease of use.
- Missing parameters at times.
January 18, 2022
Review!
This product has [helped] me to do Performance management for my website. I was able to get detailed and real-time statistics of various variables like network packets, user counts, and this really helped us to better track our website. The data was also showcased in an interactive graph which made it easy to use to visualize our stats.
- Interactive graph
- None
December 11, 2020
How AppOtics make our life easier
I mostly use AppOptics to monitor our website performances, response time, status code, etc. How is the loading time distributed between servers, databases, and caches? Is one of our services spiking for some reason? We use it to focus our attention on pages that need to be optimized to improve the user experience. It also helps us to focus on what needs to be optimized.
- Monitoring services.
- Detect service failures.
- Helps pinpoint problems in our website.
- The only thing that I would add is the possibility to display every single query our servers receive to eventually analyze them and query through them. We could also generate nice visualizations from that. Right now I believe we can only see averages.
December 09, 2020
Cost-effective, easy to use and sufficiently detailed APM
We use the APM for a single department so far. It helps us dig into performance degradation events of our java web services.
- Compares performance to previous day/week.
- Shows detail of traced requests including DB queries and cache calls.
- Performs quickly and has little lag time between reported detail.
- Report filtering could be more powerful.
- Date comparison options like 4 weeks ago instead of 1 month.
SolarWinds AppOptics is one of the successful tools used to closely follow our web applications. A tool that helps us see response times and errors of our web applications. It is used by DevOps team in our company in test, staging, and production web applications. It is a service that we use to monitor healthy working environments and provide information by helping in debugging the bug when we encounter an unusual event.
- SolarWinds AppOptics has an easy to use and fast interface. Thus, you can use time more efficiently.
- SolarWinds AppOptics has as many details as you want. So you only display deep details when you want.
- SolarWinds AppOptics already has many plugins. So you can easily connect with your other services.
- The number of plugins should be increased.
- The number of warning methods should be increased.
July 21, 2020
SolarWinds AppOptics is a Breeze
It is used by the IT department to monitor the performance of our web applications and help track down bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
- The time frame options help track peak hours and compare impact of improvements.
- The detailed breakdown of traces requests helps track down the source of slowness in applications.
- The database queries tracked help find most used tables and help decide where indexing is needed.
- The exceptions graph on the overview screen can be misleading as not all exceptions are high priority.
- Could use more customization on the overview screen. Would like to change what graphs are shown for each service.
Using AppOptics for Application Performance Monitoring and helping to optimize for better performance.
- Application Performance Monitoring.
- DB Monitoring.
- Network Monitoring.
- API level check.
- Running application box stats.
- Consumed memory stats.
July 15, 2020
Very Happy
We use it for most of our products. We use it for many things, but to me, the main use is when we do our deployments to monitor for changes in performance. We have also been able to see what part of the applications/stack is slow so that we can further improve things.
- Shows each layer of application.
- Code tracing.
- Easy to visualize where the issues are.
I use SolarWinds AppOptics to gather high-level information on bottlenecks and quickly drill down into problematic requests and identify things I can fix.
- Aggregate info to show problems
- Show layer by layer overview of where time is spent
- Might be related to our setup but correlating info between different apps is not possible.
May 17, 2020
Its good and easy to use
We are using SolarWinds AppOptics for application monitoring. Compared to other monitoring tools, AppOptics' GUI is the most simple and any layman can understand the functionality of it. Latency monitoring between the application or the components is easy. Integration with the application is also easy.
- Best GUI.
- Detailed view of latencies.
- Application integration is easy.
May 17, 2020
Monitoring is Now More Easy
We use AppOptics for our application monitoring across the whole infrastructure. AppOptics provides a very deep-dive and point to point metrics and alerts for the various microservices which help to track and identify various issues which may/could cause the instability in our application flow. So if I need to check my latency stats from one microservice to another, and if latency rate is higher than usual, we can easily trace the number of facts with the help of AppOptics like:
1) Current response code from the API.
2) Number of DB connections.
3) Queries requested from app to DB.
4) Queries that track latency.
5) Failing APIs.
- Easy to integrate with an application stack. Supports many. In my case, I just need the AppOptics client and client key to start integration with my application stack.
- Provide real-time metrics like DB connection, query analysis, latency in API calls and other connections, response codes for various API's, etc.
- We can also set thresholds based on use-cases and set up the alerts and publish one across various suitable channels.
- It would be good if could get some sort of dynamic report generation functionality base on historical trends. The rest is good.
May 16, 2020
AppOptics Review
It is used in multiple departments of our organization. It is being used to control response time, error rate, and drill down into multiple paths of the website and 95th percentile.
- Markers: Drill down into specific logical blocks of the execution timeline.
- Remote services: Possibility to track external API calls separately from the main stack.
- Alerting: Possibility to receive alerts as soon as a certain threshold was reached.
- Get to the errors from the dashboard graphs.
- Custom-selected Nth percentile.
- Auto-refresh option for close to live-monitoring.
May 16, 2020
Detect bottlenecks in your application
It's being used by the department to detect performance issues like response time in the application. This helps us detect the bottlenecks in our application. This includes remote calls, database queries, cache calls. It also helps us determine the different layers in a request made. This helps in identifying ones that can be removed.
- Average response time.
- Average request rate.
- Tracing different layers in a request.
- Detection of slow queries.
- More data can be added, however, it could also be that we haven't set it up fully.
May 15, 2020
Use SolarWinds AppOptics to see what you don't.
We have been using SolarWinds AppOptics for a while. Its agent is monitoring all of our servers we run in Amazone and in Azure cloud. It is very useful when combining the dashboards and for alerting. The only thing we miss is SMS support for alerts. Also when on the Infrastructure page I notice I could find useful like "merge" function. So I can select a couple of instances and see Host details for those selected.
- Compact monitoring
- Tracking of transactions, requests, etc.
- Its simplicity of usage. Less is more.
- Its SMS gateway for notification, so we don't need to use a third party.
- On Infrastructure page, select multiple choices and see Host details for all of them
- Better organization of metrics
May 15, 2020
Good value for cloud infrastructure monitoring!
We use SolarWinds AppOptics to monitor infrastructure running in our production SaaS environment running on AWS. It is used by the entire engineering team. If a system fails or is exhibiting performance problems, we are alerted nearly instantly and can respond before our customers even notice there is an issue.
- Simple installation and configuration
- Easy to use UI
- Good value
- Many integrations with third-party software
- Better cluster support: identify and group all related hosts automatically based on name
May 15, 2020
SolarWinds AppOptics: Must-try application
We use SolarWinds AppOptics in one project. We are providing engineering services to one US-based organization and we have integrated SolarWinds AppOptics in their application for performance monitoring. AppOptics helps us to create monitoring dashboards and configure alerts if some operation crosses the threshold response time to meet SLAs. Our project is based on the healthcare domain so real-time data is very important for this and AppOptics is useful to track database response time, communication time between two services, etc.
- Provides default dashboards for all your services and we can create custom dashboards as well
- We can configure alerts on API response times and can configure multiple notification channels
- It tracks everything including infrastructure, database response, communication between different micro-services
- Sometimes I have faced issues while creating custom dashboards
- A few metrics do not provide accurate results
- Documentation can be improved
May 15, 2020
Great tool for application monitoring
SolarWinds AppOptics is being used to help engineers debug issues within the entire application stack, from the API call all the way down to the actual database. It's a very powerful tool to isolate latency and reliability issues that you can't typically find in logs or metrics, unless you make those very granular.
- Full application stack trace
- Measuring latency
- Providing historical map of calls
- It's confusing sometimes to dig into a trace, like certain levels don't have much info. AppOptics just says this level occupies 95% of the call time.
- It would be nice to have AppOptics identify if the root cause of an issue was caused by a dependency, e.g. another service it calls. It would be great to chain them together.
- Not very intuitive, if you don't know what you're doing or know what to look for.
May 10, 2020
Works okay for Python but needs work
It is used by both DevOps and by Tech Support. We use it to track down source code-level issues and to monitor response time and service level stats.
- Distributed tracing.
- Basic hardware monitoring.
- Application transaction stats/details.
- Support for celery in Python.
- Overall better Python support.
- Backwards compatibility.
May 08, 2020
SolarWinds AppOptics Review
SolarWinds AppOptics is solving various APM issues for our microservices production environment.
As our infra is very huge so we haven't implemented it in the whole organization. But still, we are using it for most of the critical services. Pinpointing the issues becomes very easy during production downtimes.
As our infra is very huge so we haven't implemented it in the whole organization. But still, we are using it for most of the critical services. Pinpointing the issues becomes very easy during production downtimes.
- Alerting
- Trace debugging
- Remote calls detection
- flexibility of configuration
- Linked graph of microservices can be included
AppOptics is used to help maintain the availability, efficiency and functionality of our public facing web applications and APIs - these are business critical platforms upon which internal customers, clients and suppliers all rely.
AppOptics is an invaluable tool in diagnosing problems at an early stage, and gives our development team deep insight into the context of problems as they arise, as well as providing proactive monitoring of resource usage and error rates across multiple endpoints.
- Deep insight into the ASP.NET pipeline, allowing drill-down into individual requests.
- Intuitive dashboards with the ability to slice by time give a good overview of real-world endpoint performance.
- Ability to drill into individual queries executed during the lifetime of an IIS request provide excellent intelligence for targeted optimization of SQL bottlenecks.
- Extending visualization into the asp.net processing pipeline would be really helpful - the ability to see which handler/piece of middleware did what, and when would be great.
- The ability to capture parameters for certain SQL queries - possibly based on a filter.
- The ability to describe the relationship between requests and users - so being able to see all requests submitted in a particular session (by cookie, http header value, etc) would be most useful.
- Monitoring infrastructure in production. We also use it to track AWS usage and its APM capabilities.
- Whenever there's an exception or slow performance in production we use AppOptics.
- Drilldown to slow transactions in DB or server-side code.
- General visibility of usage vs. spending on AWS.
- Quick view to usage statistics in AWS, instead of going to CloudWatch (for example, SNS messages).
- Easy to integrate.
- No need to instrument code.
- Full visibility.
- Better python instrumentation.
- Monitoring AWS lambda.