New Relic vs SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

• Monitor traffic rates and server usage on real time
• Helps engineers to dive deep into an issue and guides them to the root cause
• Provides high-level system health status of different components (ie. Server capacity, RPM, page load time, error rate..)
• Near real time reporting
• Links with deployment so easy to understand if an issue has occurred after a particular release

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• 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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• It would be helpful if use cases for particularly a Windows installation, were provided to help determine which set of configuration files would be the one a group would want to control. I.e. potentially with a department trying to do DevOps, it's difficult to determine which team needs to have responsibility for what at times. The reason I mention this, is New Relic seems to in many ways be a tool that's useful for DevOps-related processes and staff.
• On the main New Relic One site, sometimes a refresh option is available for new features. It would be helpful to see what the new features are in advance before trying this out. Particularly if doing a demo or a working season with another team.
• I'm not aware of a page or specific site which describes/summarizes all of the different NR Products and their features.
• Sometimes it's tricky to determine which product to use to accomplish a task.

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• The get the best out of it requires a decent amount of knowledge of the product. In saying that, you could absolutely get the basics up and running using their how-to's and built in wizards, and with continual use find your way around and customise it further to your environment to best serve your organisation/objectives.

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• Gives us great visibility into what our services are doing at all times.
• Alerts us quickly when there is a problem so we can address it with alacrity.
• Gives us extremely customizable options in regards to how we want to track, store, and materialize our data.

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• Our business is not IT, but we make money with the services provided by IT. For this reason, if the IT infrastructure does not work, we will suffer.
• We need to have systems working 24/7, but no one in IT needs to work at night.

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