dbWatch vs. ManageEngine Site24x7 vs. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
dbWatch
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
According to the vendor, dbWatch is a complete and scalable database monitoring solution, helping enterprises monitor and manage any number of SQLServer and Oracle database servers efficiently. dbWatch also supports Azure, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase. The vendor promises that dbWatch will give companies total control over all aspects of operation, performance, analytics and resource usage. Additionally, the vendor claims that dbWatch will have the total overview companies need in order to…
$350
5-9 instances
ManageEngine Site24x7
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Site24x7 from ManageEngine is a full-stack application, website, server, cloud and network monitoring tool. Site24x7 offers code-level diagnostics and customizable error thresholds, end-to-end monitoring with topology visualization tools, and mobile accessibility.
$9
10 monitors
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Score 7.7 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
dbWatchManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Editions & Modules
MariaDB/Sybase
$350
5-9 instances
MS-SQL/PostgreSQL
$425
5-9 instances
MS-SQL Server/Oracle
$600
5-9 instances
Starter
$9.00
10 monitors
Pro
$35.00
40 Monitors
Classic
$89.00
100 Monitors
Elite
$225.00
250 Monitors
Enterprise
$449.00
500 Monitors
Enterprise Plus Web
$899.00
2500 Monitors
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
dbWatchManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Free Trial
YesYesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional$1 monitorsNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEach Pack will also support additional benefits such as Network interfaces, Applogs, Alert credits etc. You can also, purchase add-ons to create custom pricing options. Please visit the vendor's pricing page, for more information.SAM pricing starts at $2,995.
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Community Pulse
dbWatchManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Considered Multiple Products
dbWatch

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ManageEngine Site24x7

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
We choose SAM instead of Site 24x7 because of the facility to handle API calls. Site 24x7 doesn't have a friendly dashboard as SAM has.
Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds has incorporated all of the needs pieces in one platform....the others did not.
Features
dbWatchManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
dbWatch
-
Ratings
ManageEngine Site24x7
8.4
11 Ratings
6% above category average
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
-
Ratings
Remote monitoring00 Ratings9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
Network device monitoring00 Ratings7.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings8.610 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
dbWatch
-
Ratings
ManageEngine Site24x7
7.4
9 Ratings
2% below category average
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
-
Ratings
Policy-based automation00 Ratings7.49 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
dbWatch
-
Ratings
ManageEngine Site24x7
8.5
10 Ratings
9% above category average
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
-
Ratings
Performance data reports00 Ratings8.110 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reporting00 Ratings8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
Data visualization00 Ratings8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk analysis00 Ratings8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
dbWatch
-
Ratings
ManageEngine Site24x7
6.6
2 Ratings
2% below category average
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
-
Ratings
Antivirus and malware management00 Ratings6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
dbWatch
-
Ratings
ManageEngine Site24x7
-
Ratings
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
3.2
277 Ratings
80% below category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings00 Ratings3.0267 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings00 Ratings5.0231 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings00 Ratings2.0272 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings00 Ratings3.0216 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings00 Ratings4.0240 Ratings
Collaboration tools00 Ratings00 Ratings2.0149 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings00 Ratings3.0257 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings00 Ratings3.0217 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings00 Ratings5.0235 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings00 Ratings3.0270 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings00 Ratings3.0251 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings00 Ratings2.0200 Ratings
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
dbWatchManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(13 ratings)
8.8
(278 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
-
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8.9
(10 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
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8.6
(29 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
-
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9.9
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(21 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
dbWatchManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
dbWatch
It's very fabulous with the support of Oracle and MySQL servers. Excellent with getting real-time health reports. Magnificent with auto-discovery of database servers. Intuitive and intuitive UI.
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
[Site24x7 All-in-One Monitoring is] well suited in website monitoring where especially for uptime and availability of the website. Due to its cloud nature, the company has servers distributed globally that allow to check site availability from anywhere in the world.
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SolarWinds
For monitoring applications that run on Windows hosts on VMware or HyperV virtualization, SolarWindows offers a nice, vertical view of both the loads and the resources. In such an environment, this makes life really good! But if you have something else -- for example, Linux hosts -- you're on your own to some extent. That is, the things it does well, it does very well -- but everything else is much less polished.
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Pros
dbWatch
  • It's a magnificent with getting health reports on our database.
  • Excellent with monitoring our MS SQL server.
  • Terrific with monitoring our database.
  • Intuitive user dashboard.
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • Very clean website UI. Tests are well categorized and navigation is very simple.
  • The accompanying mobile app is very useful when on the go as it can also notify you of any issues.
  • The cost of the platform is very cheap and the cost also scales at a low amount.
  • No on-premise footprint. All cloud-based.
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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
dbWatch
No answers on this topic
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • Ability to edit an existing maintenance schedule, vs creating a new one each time
  • Grouping of emails to SMS and non SMS alerts to save on false alerts
  • Setup of Realtime user monitor was not as functional as expected with regard to adding 3rd party scripts.
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SolarWinds
  • Provides basic monitoring/visibility. Visibility into detailed/fine-grained issues best suited for more specialized/expensive solutions.
  • Licensing per monitored application rapidly uses up purchased license count.
  • More out-of-the-box templates or easier setup of monitoring less-common applications would make the solution more appealing given the target audience of the product.
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Likelihood to Renew
dbWatch
No answers on this topic
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
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
dbWatch
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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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
dbWatch
No answers on this topic
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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
dbWatch
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
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
dbWatch
No answers on this topic
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
I have only had to use support once, so I can't go into much detail about their support team. The one time I did use it the response was fast but the resolution took some time.
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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
dbWatch
No answers on this topic
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds
It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.
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Implementation Rating
dbWatch
No answers on this topic
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds
Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time
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Alternatives Considered
dbWatch
Flexibility and magnificent with auto-discovery of database servers. Excellent with SSL certification management. Terrific with DB monitoring. Intuitive and easy to customize our dashboard.
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
The biggest difference between Site24x7 and products like PRTG, Nagios, or Icinga, is that Site24x7 is hosted off the network, completely externally. The others do a great job on network alerts-- and some can even be configured to send SMS or phone calls with the right equipment and plugins-- but they usually reside in the network or at least on-site. Hosting them in the cloud might be a way around that, in which case they would be pretty similar to Site24x7 in capability, but without the additional software costs in the case of Nagios and Icinga (both open source).
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SolarWinds
It has been a while since we first purchased SolarWinds, but I looked over several other products that I can't remember now. Many other products tried to scan the network to find computers but given that our computers are located in various places across campus with other computers in our buildings that are not ours that type of network scanning was not what we needed. Other services have extra services that we had no need of and I liked the ability to add custom fields in SolarWinds so we can track the information on each computer that we need to know.
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Scalability
dbWatch
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
No answers on this topic
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
dbWatch
No answers on this topic
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • Cost savings have been substantial at approximately 70%.
  • We do suffer delayed email notifications and regular locational failures from 24x7. However, this is easily overcome by extra locational checks.
  • Much quicker responses from out of hours teams with the benefit of the mobile app, which is user-friendly.
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SolarWinds
  • 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.
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ScreenShots

dbWatch Screenshots

Screenshot of dbWatch global dashboard

ManageEngine Site24x7 Screenshots

Screenshot of Component wise metric breakdown in a Webpage Speed (Browser) monitorScreenshot of Summary page for a windows server monitorScreenshot of Response time and outages summary for a DNS server monitorScreenshot of Summary page for traces run on a Java applicationScreenshot of Desktop and mobile view of a Website monitorScreenshot of Homepage view

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Screenshots

Screenshot of Multi-vendor application performance monitoringScreenshot of Multi-vendor server monitoringScreenshot of Application dependency mapping with AppStack™ dashboardScreenshot of Microsoft Exchange performance monitoring with AppInsight™ templateScreenshot of Microsoft IIS performance monitoring with AppInsight™ templateScreenshot of Server hardware health monitoring