Scout APM vs. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Scout APM
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Scout APM is offered to enable software developers to spend their time building products customers love by minimizing the effort required to identify and resolve performance issues. As a provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, Scout states that their developer-centric approach pinpoints issues such as memory bloat, N+1 queries and other abnormalities, enabling customers to quickly resolve performance issues.
$129
per month
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is a tool for monitoring, performance management, capacity planning and optimization for on-premises or cloud-based virtual environments. It also integrates with other SolarWinds products.N/A
Pricing
Scout APMSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Editions & Modules
Small
$129.00
per month
Medium
$199.00
per month
Large
$399.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Scout APMSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCustom and Enterprise plans are available.
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Community Pulse
Scout APMSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
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Features
Scout APMSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Scout APM
9.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
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Ratings
Application monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Scout APMSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.7
(66 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Scout APMSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Likelihood to Recommend
Scout APM
To me, it's the best APM out there for a Rails application. It is really easy to set up, configure and start debugging any kind of bad-performing endpoint. We have solved issues going from High Response Time to Memory Leaks/Bloats. All of this can be achieved even if you are hosting your app in a PaaS like Heroku. (Where sometimes is difficult to install an agent like in other vendors).
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SolarWinds
On the whole, Solarwinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is an excellent product which gives us a single point to monitor our virtual environment. After our initial trial I was sold on the product and what it had to offer. Immediately after implementing VMAN, we were able to spot virtual machines with old snapshots which were never deleted and no longer needed, we could spot virtual machines which either had over allocated resources or under allocated resources meaning we could make changes and fine tune them for best performance. We could also monitor virtual machine latency, IOPS, and show us where our bottlenecks were.
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Pros
Scout APM
  • Rails instrumentation
  • Segmentation by controllers and sometimes methods
  • Detecting low performing endpoints
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SolarWinds
  • I created custom dashboards, to view the different elements of the virtual environment. For example, you can view the number of online VMs and those off, or disconnected. You can also choose to see the status of every virtual cluster, the storage disk usage on every VM, the RAM usage, CPU usage.
  • I used this application to see the growth of virtual memory in each cluster and accordingly do forecasting for future growth. A capacity planner included in this application would help in doing accurate estimations and setting a future upgrade budget.
  • Another powerful tool was the customized reports, where i could generate reports on any element of the VM or cluster. Reports can be exported to Excel or PDF and are very useful for sharing information with colleagues and management.
  • Alerts can be customized. For example, you can set a rule to get an email alert if any virtual server RAM usage exceeds 85% and send a text message if RAM usage exceeds 90% for more than 10 minutes.
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Cons
Scout APM
  • Errors (is a new functionality but I didn't get well how it can replace rollbar for example).
  • Usage measuring: In some cases is easy to get "disabled" due to a peak of bad requests.
  • Editing app's names
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SolarWinds
  • We did have issues during the setup, with successfully connecting to some of our hosts and vCenters and we found support were just sending us back to articles we had already read, it was also taking long periods before getting a response. The issue is still ongoing, in fact.
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Likelihood to Renew
Scout APM
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SolarWinds
Currently, there is no other tool that gives us what we need to monitor a geographically disperse environment with multiple non-related instances of VM clusters. In addition, the level of reporting, historical data trending, and alerting that VMAN provides is essential for our business process. Lastly, the effort to customize and set up any monitoring system is not trivial. This makes switching to any other product very difficult without being able to clearly demonstrate a ROI.
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Usability
Scout APM
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SolarWinds
SolarWinds VMAN is easy to use for everyone. When I say everyone which literally means anyone e.g. Virtualization Environment SME, Consultant, Support Team, Management Officers etc. Anyone who have worked on IT technologies could easily deploy SolarWinds by reading videos, Thwack posts or Virtual Classrooms (Custom Success Centers) - this makes this application easy to operation and for maintenance support is always there.
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Reliability and Availability
Scout APM
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SolarWinds
We have yet to enconter any issues in terms of availability. We have a highly available SQL cluster running Orion.
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Performance
Scout APM
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SolarWinds
We find page load times to be quite slow at times. Flipping between tabs can also be very slow.
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Support Rating
Scout APM
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SolarWinds
SolarWinds gives good support. I have never had a time when i was working through a support case where I did not get the support I needed for the required issues to be resolved. I have always had resolutions from SolarWinds support. They are top notch. Issues once had are no more.
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Implementation Rating
Scout APM
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SolarWinds
Its really the best product on the market for someone looking to have total control over their VM environment. anyone interested should download a demo and try it, I know you will buy it after you do. It changing the way you have to manage on a daily basis
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Alternatives Considered
Scout APM
We have preferred Scout APM over Datadog due to: - Easy to configure and install on Heroku Platform (Datadog's agent can give some trouble when installing it on Heroku's Dynos) - Easy to monitor normal behavior and be actionable on endpoints who are out of normal - It has an easier pricing which facilitates to make predictions on budget
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SolarWinds
The operation began using Nagios XI, after a year of use, and based on the results obtained, we realized that what our client wanted was not fully met. Our client asked us to use WhatsUp, however, SolarWinds covered in a more efficient way what was required by our client (IT) and even more.
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Scalability
Scout APM
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SolarWinds
Purchasing the correct license allows the platform to scale with your environment.
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Return on Investment
Scout APM
  • Speed to solve incidents
  • Easy to monitor new endpoints or deployments
  • Easy to monitor background jobs (like sidekiq)
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SolarWinds
  • VMAN has been used for reports provided to executive-level meetings. These reports showed our growth patterns, allowing for easier decisions on purchasing additional hardware.
  • VMAN has provided a positive impact on allowing for near real-time monitoring of resources, able to pinpoint when services are using more memory than expected, not running at all, or other options as defined.
  • VMAN was purchased to help monitor our VMware platform, the added abilities for AWS allowed us to migrate clients from on-prem to cloud-based with the same views.
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ScreenShots

Scout APM Screenshots

Screenshot of Scout DashboardScreenshot of Backtrace viewScreenshot of Database Add-onScreenshot of N+1 InsightsScreenshot of Memory InsightsScreenshot of Slow Query Insights

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Screenshots

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