Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
I purchased it to monitor critical systems for failure. It does a good job of flagging some critical items for us.
- Tells you when a web service goes down.
- Tells you when a threshold has been exceeded.
- You can get very granular in the settings.
- It wants to auto-add everything. It's so annoying to add new machines and make sure it doesn't use SAM.
- It's way too expensive to monitor all but the most critical things. You can burn all the sensors for the lowest tier on one server.
- It's a good product for us to use for critical services.
- Its not cost effective for us to use on a lot of machines and only the most critical services are monitored.
We went with SolarWinds based on price vs functionality.
I really like ManageEngine, but the maintenance price was prohibitive.
I really like ManageEngine, but the maintenance price was prohibitive.