InfluxDB vs. SolarWinds Observability

InfluxDB

SolarWinds Observability

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
InfluxDB	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	The InfluxDB is a time series database from InfluxData headquartered in San Francisco. As an observability solution, it is designed to provide real-time visibility into stacks, sensors and systems. It is available open source, via the Cloud as a DBaaS option, or through an Enterprise subscription.	N/A
SolarWinds Observability	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds Observability is a SaaS offering purpose-built to enable DevOps teams to have unified and correlated end-to-end visibility across the technology stack, from the infrastructure, database and application to the end-user experience. It helps organizations meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and user satisfaction service-level objectives (SLOs). The observability offering helps make it easy to understand and has holistic oversight into service delivery and the individual component…	$60 per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*)

Pricing

InfluxDB

SolarWinds Observability

Editions & Modules

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Logs: $60
per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*)
Digital Experience Observability - Synthetics: $120
per year Packs of 10 uptime checks
Infrastructure Observability: $180
per year Per Host (Containers 10:1 Host)
Network Observability: $180
per year Per active network device (With an IP address)
Application Observability: $330
per year Application Instance
Database Observability: $840
per year Per physical or virtual database instance

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
InfluxDB	SolarWinds Observability
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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*Log retention available in 1, 7, 15, 30, and 60 days (for more than 60 days retention, talk to sales).

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Community Pulse
	InfluxDB	SolarWinds Observability
Top Pros	Pro Time series Pro Series data Pro Time series data	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Open source Minus Open source version Minus Good performance	No answers on this topic

Best Alternatives
	InfluxDB	SolarWinds Observability
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	InfluxDB Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	No answers on this topic	IBM Instana Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	No answers on this topic	IBM Instana Score 8.9 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	InfluxDB	SolarWinds Observability
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	InfluxDB	SolarWinds Observability
Likelihood to Recommend	InfluxData InfluxDB is very good at storing monitoring metrics (e.g. performance data). InfluxDB is not the right choice if you need to store other data types (like plain text, data relations etc.). Incentivized Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Read full review	SolarWinds No answers on this topic
Pros	InfluxData Perfect handling telemetry data. Low latency, near real time. SQL-like language makes it easier to query. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SolarWinds No answers on this topic
Cons	InfluxData GUI based administrator console Incentivized SA Stephane Abitbol Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist Read full review	SolarWinds No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	InfluxData InfluxDB is a near perfect product for time series database engines. The relatively small list of cons are heavily outweighed by it's ability to just work and be a very flexible and powerful database engine. The community and support provided by the corporation are the only areas I have little experience. Incentivized Jonathan Yarbor CEO & Co-Founder Read full review	SolarWinds No answers on this topic
Support Rating	InfluxData We have worked with the InfluxDB support team a few times so far and it has been positive. Issues submitted are worked on promptly and we have good feedback. Incentivized SA Stephane Abitbol Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist Read full review	SolarWinds No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	InfluxData To be honest, I didn't look at alternatives since InfluxDB performs very well if you can oversee the lack of security and HA features. But for all challenges, there is an easy solution which brings you forward (e.g. read load balancing can be achieved by using a common HTTPS load balancer). Incentivized Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Read full review	SolarWinds No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	InfluxData Provided us a time series DB. With the SQL-like language, it is very easy to learn. Empowered us to keep track of our events. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SolarWinds No answers on this topic
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