SolarWinds ipMonitor vs SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Rekha Yadav

Development Team Lead

AccentureComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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We've found WPM to be a fit for every web application that we wanted to monitor. If you have a web app that you'd like monitoring/alerting for then WPM may work for you. So far our only struggles have been when after logging in the app launches a new tab.

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John Predmore

Network Administrator

First Bankers Trust Company, NABanking, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

Automated network device discovery

Network monitoring

Alerts

Network mapping

Customizable reports

SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

Remote monitoring

Multiple Server Monitoring

Automated alerts and notifications

SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

Performance data reports

Customizable reporting

Data visualization

SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

Adinistraor access control

Pros

ipMonitor is well suited to use SNMP sources to monitor up states and usage such as network interfaces
ipMonitor does a great job of measuring bandwidth usage and delivering a long term 'picture' of usage
ipMonitor has an exceptional interface that is easy to use and simple to navigate

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Mike Maner

Network Systems Engineer

Whitesell GroupMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Testing web applications
Ability to log in to secure sections of websites in order to test user authentication
Provides a detailed history of steps taken and provides print screens of each step. If an error occurs you can see the web page to better diagnose issues.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Information Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

SolarWinds ipMonitor tool is good for small to medium-size applications but it has some drawbacks for large and busy applications on busy servers.
[It] may not able to provide accurate results for applications or servers which work on high loads and busy environments.
In our Organization it has been observed on the Clustered environment with always-on technology, and iPMonitor cannot pinpoint the network traffic and performance which servers were switched between the servers. While switching between Active node to passive node in a clustered environment, it cannot pinpoint application web servers issues.

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Srinivas Reddy

Windows and SQL Administrator

CTDCFInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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The recorder is clunky and must be run on a local machine.
It does not support frames.

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Scott Reese

Server and Storage Administrator-2

Michigan Supreme CourtGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.2

Based on 1 answer

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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Mike Maner

Network Systems Engineer

Whitesell GroupMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Usability

SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.1

Based on 8 answers

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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Dylan Eikelenboom

Security Officer

IXON CloudInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.6

Based on 10 answers

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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Nikhil Kumar Sharma

Associate Consultant

HCL TechnologiesInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Solarwinds support is top-notch, and while we rarely have to call them, they are always very helpful when we do.

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Scott Reese

Server and Storage Administrator-2

Michigan Supreme CourtGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We have run Zabbix in the past and while it is a great and very flexible tool (much more than SolarWinds), it is also an Open Source tool that depends heavily on the community. When it comes to more complex environments and global implementations with business critical applications, we could not rely on the community to support us.SolarWinds is a leader on monitoring industry and has a great support.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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At the time we purchased WPM we were not aware of alternatives and therefore did not compare them.

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John Predmore

Network Administrator

First Bankers Trust Company, NABanking, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Paul Cheng

IT Manager

Handel ArchitectsArchitecture & Planning, 51-200 employees

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Better reporting of down states to allow for SLA reporting
Better alerting during certain failure conditions which allows the IT org to respond faster
More thorough history to review past errors and see screenshots of the errors.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Information Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

SolarWinds ipMonitor Editions & Modules

Edition

ipMonitor -2500 Monitors	$5770¹
ipMonitor - 1000 Monitors	$2620¹
ipMonitor - 500 Monitors	$1570¹

installation

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

Likelihood to Recommend