AppFog (discontinued) vs. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppFog (discontinued)
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
AppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.
$0
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.N/A
Pricing
AppFog (discontinued)SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppFog (discontinued)SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSAM pricing starts at $2,995.
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Community Pulse
AppFog (discontinued)SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Features
AppFog (discontinued)SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
6.5
2 Ratings
19% below category average
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability5.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
-
Ratings
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
6.5
280 Ratings
17% below category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings7.0270 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings7.0234 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings6.8275 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings6.0219 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings7.3243 Ratings
Collaboration tools00 Ratings5.7151 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings6.5260 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings5.5220 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.3238 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings7.0273 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings6.8254 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings5.7202 Ratings
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User Ratings
AppFog (discontinued)SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(2 ratings)
8.8
(278 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(10 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(29 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(21 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppFog (discontinued)SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
It was very good to use in small scale projects. Considering the high end projects with many instances and multi-platform architectures, it is better to test before the application is deployed. I think few of the questions can be general - who are the system users and what size is the application focussing on? How much resources are required? Will the application require any additional services?
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SolarWinds
It is a well-suited software for monitoring and surveillance of your deployed nodes. The error-readability and filter options for filtering out logs and errors could be improved. But overall, it has a good UI design, is user-friendly, and is very easy to learn and access for new users.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
  • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
  • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.
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SolarWinds
  • Monitor Azure Cloud Severs- We use SolarWinds SAM to monitor Active Directory and DNS on Several DCs published on Azure Cloud.
  • Monitor Hyper V and VMware - SolarWinds SAM monitors applications on both Hyper V and VMware, while also monitoring the physical host machines.
  • It also helps us monitor Warranty expiration for physical servers.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
  • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.
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SolarWinds
  • Custom application monitors can be a little tricky to configure.
  • Logic in custom alerts can be a little hard to follow and figure out.
  • Inability to monitor certificates on custom applications or SQL Server.
  • Can be a little slow at times with on-prem SQL server.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
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SolarWinds
We are heavily invested in Solarwinds products for a reason. They are generally easy to setup and run with, requiring only some interfacing with support or help articles on rare occasions. They do what we bought them to do and we can't ask for more.
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Usability
Discontinued Products
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SolarWinds
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is quite easy to use and super versatile. It allows you to do just about anything you can through premade templates or through scripting. You can use an agent on the servers if you want to, or you can monitor through WMI or SNMP credentials. You can customize thresholds for alerting quickly, and you can configure alerts to be as complex or as simple as you want.
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Reliability and Availability
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds
The tool works and monitors items 24x7, it only requires maintenance a little more frequently due to security fixes in the Windows operating system.
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Performance
Discontinued Products
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SolarWinds
The graphical interface and the performance of the database leave a little to be desired, they could be better explored.Some functionality and screens do not work well depending on the browser used. The integrations never had any problems or caused crashes in other systems.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
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SolarWinds
I think there was only a couple times I had to open a support case for SAM and one time they got multiple engineers on the phone to get a better idea what I was trying to monitor and was able to point me in the best direction to monitor that system.
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Online Training
Discontinued Products
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SolarWinds
It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.
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Implementation Rating
Discontinued Products
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SolarWinds
Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a new user.
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SolarWinds
Nagios requires far more manual work to configure than SolarWinds does, though that also encourages customization and perfect-fit solutions. Nagios also requires far, far fewer resources to run than SolarWinds: SolarWinds wants great gobs of memory and disk, while Nagios is refreshingly humble. Nagios starts working from the first minute, too, whereas SolarWinds needs lots of set-up time.
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Scalability
Discontinued Products
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SolarWinds
It is hard to find the recommended SQL setup and convince others that is the way you should configure the server when you set it up
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
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SolarWinds
  • Ability to sunset multiple legacy monitoring platforms.
  • A single pane of glass across global locations (Enterprise Operations Console) simplifies monitoring for junior staff.
  • A single toolset allows staff from across the global environment to share knowledge and quickly set up/modify monitoring.
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Screenshots

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