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    Qualys TruRisk Platform

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AQualys TruRisk Platform (formerly Qualys Cloud Platform, or Qualysguard), from San Francisco-based Qualys, is network security and vulnerability management software featuring app scanning and security, network device mapping and detection, vulnerability prioritization schedule and remediation, and other features to provide vulnerability management and network attack surface reduction.N/A

    SolarWinds AppOptics

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.N/A
    Pricing
    Qualys TruRisk PlatformSolarWinds AppOptics
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Qualys TruRisk PlatformSolarWinds AppOptics
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Qualys TruRisk PlatformSolarWinds AppOptics
    Considered Both Products
    Qualys
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Qualys TruRisk PlatformSolarWinds AppOptics
    Threat Intelligence
    Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Qualys TruRisk Platform and SolarWinds AppOptics
    Feature
    Qualys TruRisk Platform
    8.7
    7 Ratings
    7% above category average
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    -
    Ratings
    Network Analytics8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Recognition8.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Classification8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Alerts and Reporting9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Analysis8.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence Reporting8.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Threat Identification8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management Tools
    Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of Qualys TruRisk Platform and SolarWinds AppOptics
    Feature
    Qualys TruRisk Platform
    8.5
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    -
    Ratings
    IT Asset Realization8.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Authentication7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configuration Monitoring8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Scanning8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Intelligence8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Qualys TruRisk Platform and SolarWinds AppOptics
    Feature
    Qualys TruRisk Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    6.9
    30 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings8.530 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings7.528 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings6.526 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings4.612 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings7.226 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings6.014 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings6.220 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings6.618 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.313 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.123 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings7.316 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings7.29 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Tenable Nessus
    Score8.8 out of 10
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Tenable Vulnerability Management
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Splunk AppDynamics
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Qualys TruRisk PlatformSolarWinds AppOptics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (25 ratings)
    7.8
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Qualys TruRisk PlatformSolarWinds AppOptics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Qualys
    Qualys Cloud Platform is well suited for organizations that need additional tools to secure and bolster their security from end to end. The automated, real-time threat protection is very quick to notify an admin of potential vulnerabilities and risks, as well as recommending quick fixes to resolve/close the gap before an incident occurs. QCP excels at portraying all of these in a single pane of glass, and find that the Qualys reports are more detailed than competitor product lines. One of our big issues with QCP is that you do have to pay for each scanner, which can quickly add up to large costs. For this reason, I would rate Qualys at a ~7 due to great features and functionality, but overall value could be better for a large organization. I would also say that QCP may make more sense for smaller organizations due to this pricing model.
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    SolarWinds
    AppOptics is good for small to medium-sized organizations with less than 150 servers or less than 40 services to monitor. It performs well for this use case where people need to get an overview of application performance, and 95%ile data is okay. Somewhere every data point and every record is critical; it should be avoided.
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    Pros
    Qualys
    • It really does well at vulnerability scanning, which it is well known for. It's accuracy at finding vulnerabilities is top notch, more so than a lot of other vulnerability tools out there. In an organization/company you want this kind of accuracy at finding vulnerabilities in your network/endpoints
    • It is very good at managing endpoints on a consistent basis, meaning you can add endpoints to Qualys and have the platform scan/track/protect for vulnerabilities on an ongoing basis, without user intervention
    • It does really well at separating out and identifying what levels of criticality each vulnerability should fall into. This way, an organization/company can attack the more critical vulnerabilities first
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    SolarWinds
    • Request tracing with code profiling.
    • Automated alerting on latency and response codes for each API.
    • Low resource overhead while collecting data from our application servers.
    • Highly performant dashboard that enables us to make progress rapidly.
    • Very resilient. We have not seen a downtime in their service in the entire year that we have used them.
    • Identify database and cache requests that are taking longer than expected
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    Cons
    Qualys
    • This program is really complicated, the multiple functions that are presented to us are not very clear and in some cases, it is a matter of intuition to execute a function, it is not very informative.
    • The interface of this program can be a real problem; for our taste, this program looks a bit messy, and the interface does not help or guide you to find the options you need.
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    SolarWinds
    • The only thing that I would add is the possibility to display every single query our servers receive to eventually analyze them and query through them. We could also generate nice visualizations from that. Right now I believe we can only see averages.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Qualys
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    We have been using AppOptics for over 3.5 years and expect to continue to renew it for the foreseeable future
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    Usability
    Qualys
    Again, the usability of Qualys has been a pinpoint for this entire review. It was easily the worst thing about the product and because of this, I would not recommend Qualys to anybody in my field. This should be something that Qualys strives to improve if they wish to stay in business.
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    SolarWinds
    As far a usability is concerned for AppOptics, it is just as matter of few minutes away even if you start from scratch, as all you need to do is register on the site and you will get the URL and password. And after this all you have to do is follow the instruction, as per the configuration wizard (tool tip) within the console for various technology such as SQL, IIS, .NET
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    Support Rating
    Qualys
    They had a support page within the WAS to report any concerns or seek help. But the UI of that is not smooth. Regardless support staff were pretty responsive and helpful. They scheduled calls to understand and address our problems. Email support is good as well.
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    SolarWinds
    Solarwinds AppOptics is rated as 9 out of 10 and the reason is there are still few areas where AppOptics needs to improve such as Service Now Integration, GCP Cloud Support, Better Dashboard visualization for application transactions flow. Other than these feature everything is there in AppOptics and that's a reason given 9 points out of 10.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Qualys
    As described before Qualys is used to scan periodically the environment in order to check if there are some packages (Linux) or Applications (Windows) outdated, generating reports to the Service Owners, fulfilling what's is expected from us, attending all our expectations regarding the tool. That's why we'd choose Qualys to our organization.
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    SolarWinds
    What we found positive in AppOptics from others is:
    • Easy to install and manage.
    • Various stack support.
    • Point to point deep-dive metrics and correlation.
    • Metrics like DB connection, query analysis, latency in API calls, and other connections, response codes for various APIs, etc are the key ones in our case, which AppOptics provides efficiently.
    • Alerts can be sent on different channels.
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    Return on Investment
    Qualys
    • Big time-saving tool vs. having to comb through several system reports which ultimately can still have you missing unapproved software.
    • Quick snapshot via the dashboard provided a nice summary of where you're assets meet or do not meet your organization's policy requirements.
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    SolarWinds
    • Application monitoring troubleshooting became more accurate. Accurate results save more man-hours of manual troubleshooting.
    • As Realtime monitoring and alerts provide more flexibility, downtime can be minimized and Accurate Root causes can be provided.
    • Dashboards can be useful for making future strategy based on trends.
    • Installation and integration is easy.
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