SolarWinds ipMonitor vs. OP5 Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds ipMonitor
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds ipMonitor is a lightweight performance monitoring tool. It enables monitoring from a single console and out-of-the-box visibility, with some automation available.
$1,570
installation
OP5 Monitor
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
OP5 offers server monitoring solutions that are designed to help IT staff gain control over their operations and deliver more effective IT services for better business. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution is designed to monitor anything and everything - whether it’s a small but business critical IT environment or fulfilling the needs of a large organization with distributed hardware, applications and services. Additionally, the vendor says OP5 customers around the world benefit…N/A
Pricing
SolarWinds ipMonitorOP5 Monitor
Editions & Modules
ipMonitor - 500 Monitors
$1570
installation
ipMonitor - 1000 Monitors
$2620
installation
ipMonitor -2500 Monitors
$5770
installation
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SolarWinds ipMonitorOP5 Monitor
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
SolarWinds ipMonitorOP5 Monitor
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
SolarWinds ipMonitorOP5 Monitor
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
SolarWinds ipMonitor
6.7
24 Ratings
20% below category average
OP5 Monitor
8.2
1 Ratings
0% below category average
Automated network device discovery6.710 Ratings00 Ratings
Network monitoring8.024 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Alerts8.223 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Network mapping6.619 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports4.223 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
SolarWinds ipMonitorOP5 Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(24 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolarWinds ipMonitorOP5 Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds
SolarWinds ipMonitor is well suited in situation where customer do not wants to hold the responsibility of underlying monitoring infrastructure management such as Servers, Database, website and their high availability. And of course when you need Network, Servers, Services fault and performance monitoring. When you have specialized network monitoring requirement such as Configuration backup, netflow traffic analysis then this is not the right tool.
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op5 AB
It is well suited when you have a large number of machines and you need a reliable monitoring mechanism. You need to check certain components of each server and have different alerting levels. OP5 Monitor is good in sending alerts to multiple recipients and you can customize the alerts for each check.
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Pros
SolarWinds
  • Both network devices and servers may be easily located on the network.
  • It notifies the user whenever any network device undergoes a change in status.
  • Powerful reporting capabilities that provide vital data about your network's devices (uptime, space, utilization of resources on your devices)
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op5 AB
  • System health monitoring
  • Customized application monitoring
  • Network connectivity
  • Alerts
  • Reports
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Cons
SolarWinds
  • It is a very complete and versatile software, but its price can be somewhat high for small companies.
  • During the analysis of the collected data the process can be somewhat slow, so it takes more time than expected.
  • Its configuration process can be somewhat complex since it requires several configurations so having prior knowledge is helpful.
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op5 AB
  • Setting up the monitoring
  • Better customization
  • Reporting
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Likelihood to Renew
SolarWinds
I have very few pieces of software, that are specific to IT and IT services, that just work. Honestly, I don't need the support as it never breaks, but I believe in rewarding vendors that make valuable products
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op5 AB
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Usability
SolarWinds
SolarWinds ipMonitor is a perfectly decent network mapper and performance metric gatherer, but it is held back by the UI, which can be hard to navigate once you have more than a couple dozen assets in there. It is fairly priced, but it also sometimes takes a really long time before results come in.
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op5 AB
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Support Rating
SolarWinds
Although I had not much support ticket with ipMonitor support team but I can share my overall experience with SolarWinds products and support team. I am working with SolarWinds support team since last 7 years and in last 2-3 years I have seen a significant improvement in knowledge documentation which is helping end users to troubleshoot problems by themselves. Apart from this SolarWinds phone call based support is very nice as tickets and emails might take some time but a direct phone call can get your job done quickly comparatively.
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op5 AB
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Alternatives Considered
SolarWinds
We were trying to evaluate different providers and ipMonitor suited us because we had on-prem and cloud instances and management decided to check the paid tool. The ipMonitor is a very responsive tool and it served the purpose well but as IT is evolving and needs are changing, we discontinued the ipMonitor and shifted to Zabbix due to the customization which was the need at the time.
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op5 AB
OP5 Monitor is based on nagios and it's good for monitoring system and application level components. Still it's difficult to setup and customize alerts, but it's a very useful tool for medium and large enterprise organizations.
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Return on Investment
SolarWinds
  • We currently use an outside service to monitor critical network nodes. We will do away with that service shortly.
  • We no longer have to wait to hear from our users if there is a network device down. We will be proactively alerted and we can begin to remediate immediately helping to limit downtime.
  • After initial setup and some tweaking, it requires little to no time to maintain.
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op5 AB
  • Better monitoring
  • Instant alerts
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds ipMonitor Screenshots

Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of Easy to navigate GUI interfaceScreenshot of Remediation FunctionalityScreenshot of Network Discovery Wizard

OP5 Monitor Screenshots

Screenshot of Airport Tactical OverviewScreenshot of User Experience SimulatorScreenshot of Office VisualizationScreenshot of Network Operations Center (NOC) Tactical OverviewScreenshot of Voice Calling Workflow Tactical Overview