Google Cloud Operations Suite vs. SolarWinds AppOptics

Easy to set up in all environments. With this tool, the company is now able to measure both well-functioning data and data that needs immediate intervention. This early detection facilitates decisions about actions to correct the disorder and improve indexes. Stackdriver is now essential for the company's security and monitoring team and we plan to expand to other branches.

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AppOptics is good for small to medium-sized organizations with less than 150 servers or less than 40 services to monitor. It performs well for this use case where people need to get an overview of application performance, and 95%ile data is okay. Somewhere every data point and every record is critical; it should be avoided.

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• All the application error reporting available at a single place.
• You will get the real-time application error and alerts.
• It's really easy to use and no need to worry for the setup.

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• Request tracing with code profiling.
• Automated alerting on latency and response codes for each API.
• Low resource overhead while collecting data from our application servers.
• Highly performant dashboard that enables us to make progress rapidly.
• Very resilient. We have not seen a downtime in their service in the entire year that we have used them.
• Identify database and cache requests that are taking longer than expected

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• For searching and filtering the logs the system is slow sometimes.
• An agent needs to be installed in each VM to monitor specific metrics.
• The pricing model is confusing.

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• The only thing that I would add is the possibility to display every single query our servers receive to eventually analyze them and query through them. We could also generate nice visualizations from that. Right now I believe we can only see averages.

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We have been using AppOptics for over 3.5 years and expect to continue to renew it for the foreseeable future

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As far a usability is concerned for AppOptics, it is just as matter of few minutes away even if you start from scratch, as all you need to do is register on the site and you will get the URL and password. And after this all you have to do is follow the instruction, as per the configuration wizard (tool tip) within the console for various technology such as SQL, IIS, .NET

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It is also a great problem detection tool, and this is extremely important for General Motors.

The user can count on the ease of flexible panels and advanced visualization tools that help to identify problems. Among the most common, we can mention:

- containment of hosts;

- cloud provider limitation;

- hardware wear.

And also Stackdriver Integration with other Google Cloud data tools such as BigQuery, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and Cloud Database.

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Solarwinds AppOptics is rated as 9 out of 10 and the reason is there are still few areas where AppOptics needs to improve such as Service Now Integration, GCP Cloud Support, Better Dashboard visualization for application transactions flow. Other than these feature everything is there in AppOptics and that's a reason given 9 points out of 10.

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What we found positive in AppOptics from others is:

• Easy to install and manage.
• Various stack support.
• Point to point deep-dive metrics and correlation.
• Metrics like DB connection, query analysis, latency in API calls, and other connections, response codes for various APIs, etc are the key ones in our case, which AppOptics provides efficiently.
• Alerts can be sent on different channels.

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• We completely depends on Stackdriver for error monitoring and reporting.
• Stackdriver is very simple to use and available at default.
• Stackdriver is the key part for our business to get the insight of our application behavior.

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• Application monitoring troubleshooting became more accurate. Accurate results save more man-hours of manual troubleshooting.
• As Realtime monitoring and alerts provide more flexibility, downtime can be minimized and Accurate Root causes can be provided.
• Dashboards can be useful for making future strategy based on trends.
• Installation and integration is easy.

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