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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Visual Studio Code

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers Visual Studio Code, an open source text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.

    $0

    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds 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
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    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—SAM pricing starts at $2,995.
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    70 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    69 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    70 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    50 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    30 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    32 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Microsoft Visual Studio Code and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Feature
    Microsoft Visual Studio Code
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    Ratings
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    7.1
    281 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings7.0271 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings7.6235 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings7.5276 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings6.6220 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings7.4244 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings6.6152 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings7.0261 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings6.0221 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.6239 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings7.6274 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings7.4255 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings6.3203 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (104 ratings)
    8.8
    (282 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    8.8
    (33 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (23 ratings)
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    As a general workhorse IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio Codee is unmatched. Building on the early success of applications such as Atom, it has long been the standard for electron based IDEs. It can be outshone using IDEs that are dedicated to particular platforms, such as Microsoft Visual Studio Code for .net and the Jetbrains IDEs for Java, Python and others. For remote collaborative development, something like Zed is ahead of VSCode live share, which can be quite flakey.
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    SolarWinds
    It is a well-suited software for monitoring and surveillance of your deployed nodes. The error-readability and filter options for filtering out logs and errors could be improved. But overall, it has a good UI design, is user-friendly, and is very easy to learn and access for new users.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Integrate with the git repository very well.
    • Integrated copilot chat is very helpful to write code snippets and helps beginners to start with coding and development.
    • Great library of available extensions is one of the best features in Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
    • Dedicated Testing option to configure pytest and others are quite handy to use.
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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
    Microsoft
    • The customization of key combinations should be more accessible and easier to change
    • The auxiliary panels could be minimized or as floating tabs which are displayed when you click on them
    • A monitoring panel of resources used by Microsoft Visual Studio Code or plugins and extensions would help a lot to be able to detect any malfunction of these
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    SolarWinds
    • Custom application monitors can be a little tricky to configure.
    • Logic in custom alerts can be a little hard to follow and figure out.
    • Inability to monitor certificates on custom applications or SQL Server.
    • Can be a little slow at times with on-prem SQL server.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Solid tool that provides everything you need to develop most types of applications. The only reason not a 10 is that if you are doing large distributed teams on Enterprise level, Professional does provide more tools to support that and would be worth the cost.
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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
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Visual Studio Code earns a 10 for its exceptional balance of power and simplicity. Its intuitive interface, robust extension ecosystem, and integrated terminal streamline development. With seamless Git integration and highly customizable settings, it adapts perfectly to any workflow, making complex coding tasks feel effortless for beginners and experts alike.
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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
    Microsoft
    Overall, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is pretty reliable. Every so often, though, the app will experience an unexplained crash. Since it is a stand-alone app, connectivity or service issues don't occur in my experience. Restarting the app seems to always get around the problem, but I do make sure to save and backup current work.
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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
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Visual Studio Code is pretty snappy in performance terms. It launches quickly, and tasks are performed quickly. I don't have a lot of integrations other than CoPilot, but I suspect that if the integration partner is provisioned appropriately that any performance impact would be pretty minimal. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles (unless you start adding plugins left and right).
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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
    Microsoft
    Active development means filing a bug on the GitHub repo typically gets you a response within 4 days. There are plugins for almost everything you need, whether it be linting, Vim emulation, even language servers (which I use to code in Scala). There is well-maintained official documentation. The only thing missing is forums. The closest thing is GitHub issues, which typically has the answers but is hard to sift through -- there are currently 78k issues.
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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
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Visual Studio Code stacks up nicely against Visual Studio because of the price and because it can be installed without admin rights. We don't exclusively use Visual Studio Code, but rather use Visual Studio and Visual Studio code depending on the project and which version of source control the given project is wired up to.
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    SolarWinds
    Nagios requires far more manual work to configure than SolarWinds does, though that also encourages customization and perfect-fit solutions. Nagios also requires far, far fewer resources to run than SolarWinds: SolarWinds wants great gobs of memory and disk, while Nagios is refreshingly humble. Nagios starts working from the first minute, too, whereas SolarWinds needs lots of set-up time.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    It is easily deployed with our Jamf Pro instance. There is actually very little setup involved in getting the app deployed, and it is fairly well self-contained and does not deploy a large amount of associated files. However, it is not particularly conducive to large project, multi-developer/department projects that involve some form of central integration.
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    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
    Microsoft
    • Saves money by replacing suites of tools such as Visual Studio, IntelliJ, etc.
    • Speeds development time and developer environment setup time
    • Strengthens code quality with integrated autoformatting and linting
    • Strengths Git practices by keeping version control tightly connected with the code
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    SolarWinds
    • Ability to sunset multiple legacy monitoring platforms.
    • A single pane of glass across global locations (Enterprise Operations Console) simplifies monitoring for junior staff.
    • A single toolset allows staff from across the global environment to share knowledge and quickly set up/modify monitoring.
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