SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review
April 16, 2021
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
We make use of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor throughout the whole organization. It has solved many issues for us, from quickly monitoring our infrastructure and alerting when systems are down, when resources (eg disk space) are running low to giving us a single view into our virtualization, network, as well as server environment. It is our number one tool for monitoring of the environment and allows us to not only be proactive when it comes to potential outages, but also allows us to quickly diagnose faults and incidents and resolve the outage quickly so that staff are able to carry on working.
- The layout and feel of the product first and foremost. You can have a product which can do everything under the sun, however if it's lacking visually or hard to navigate, it's not very useful.
- Seamless integration of assets between the various modules of SolarWinds, makes it a breeze to monitor or report on the environment.
- Customisation - All aspects of the software is customisable, whether its reporting or when it comes monitoring configuration, SolarWinds SAM allows you to customise it fully to your environment so you achieve the best outcomes when it comes to monitoring and alerting.
- The get the best out of it requires a decent amount of knowledge of the product. In saying that, you could absolutely get the basics up and running using their how-to's and built in wizards, and with continual use find your way around and customise it further to your environment to best serve your organisation/objectives.
- Less time spent investigating causes of issues. We are alerted straight away and can find the root cause of the issue in less time.
- We have been able to ditch all our previous individual monitoring solutions, none of which integrated with each other for a single solution which fully integrates with each of the different modules to provide a single portal for monitoring and alerting.
I can safely say SolarWinds comes up on top versus the individual products we used in the past. SolarWinds was selected because of its ease of use, its visual layout which allows you to easily and quickly browse through the information its currently providing for a monitored object, as well as how it integrates seamlessly between different systems and hardware, all from a single portal.
As a result, we have saved time and money, as it has given us a clear picture of our environment from a single portal which meant we no longer had any black spots or areas of our environment which had poor visibility.
As a result, we have saved time and money, as it has given us a clear picture of our environment from a single portal which meant we no longer had any black spots or areas of our environment which had poor visibility.