Entuity vs. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Entuity
Score 7.9 out of 10
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The Entuity network monitoring tool from Park Place Technologies (acquired 2019) automates network discovery and uses workflows that enable users to see when something has gone wrong. Responsive dashboards allow users to take a high-level view to gauge network health or drill down to the component level to fix network problems.N/A
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Score 8.3 out of 10
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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
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EntuitySolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
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
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Top Pros
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Features
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Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Entuity
8.8
1 Ratings
7% above category average
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Ratings
Automated network device discovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Network monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Network capacity planning8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Network mapping10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Entuity
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Ratings
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.6
276 Ratings
12% above category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings8.9266 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings8.4230 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.9271 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings8.2215 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings8.2239 Ratings
Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.7148 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings7.8256 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.5216 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings8.9234 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings9.8269 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings9.1250 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings9.0199 Ratings
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User Ratings
EntuitySolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(278 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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8.9
(10 ratings)
Usability
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8.6
(29 ratings)
Availability
-
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9.9
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
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6.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(21 ratings)
Online Training
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4.5
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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(0 ratings)
4.5
(3 ratings)
Configurability
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1.0
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
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4.5
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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9.9
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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4.5
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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4.5
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User Testimonials
EntuitySolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
Park Place Technologies
I think that if your organization is network-oriented (such as telecom or ISP) deploying Entuity should be considered a mandatory step. Big organizations will benefit from the ITSM (ticketing, monitoring and CMDB) integrations.
However, if your goal is to ensure that the server layer is monitored in great level (process and service monitoring, log parsing etc.) then Entuity will not suit your needs.
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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
Park Place Technologies
  • Exceptional network discovery and mapping.
  • Great CMDB integration capabilities.
  • Good event management integrations.
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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
Park Place Technologies
  • Detailed server monitoring.
  • Detailed storage monitoring.
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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
Park Place Technologies
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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
Park Place Technologies
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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
Park Place Technologies
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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
Park Place Technologies
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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
Park Place Technologies
Entuity support has always been quick to respond and the majority of the calls I had were resolved on the first call. In addition, the product documentation is easy to read and goes into great detail of how the product works. This is probably a reason why a support call is literally the last call for Entuity (no pun intended).
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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
Park Place Technologies
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SolarWinds
It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.
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Implementation Rating
Park Place Technologies
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds
Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time
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Alternatives Considered
Park Place Technologies
The list above shows you some of the products that Entuity replaces.
The good product and excellent support behind it make it a better choice from the admin's and EA's perspective. My customers have praised the short learning curve and the swift and professional support staff. From my own experience I can tell that this product is delivered with one of the finest sets of documentation I have ever seen.
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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
Park Place Technologies
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
Park Place Technologies
  • Reconciling multiple tools (netflow, configuration, monitoring and discovery) into one tool simplified the support agreement.
  • Root cause analysis (RCA) time has been greatly reduced thanks to having all information in a single interface.
  • Security of the network devices has improved thanks to the discovery provided by Entuity.
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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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