SolarWinds AppOptics vs. StormForge

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds AppOptics
Score 7.0 out of 10
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SolarWinds 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
StormForge
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
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Prometheus and Amazon CloudWatch
Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
AppOptics was about 60% cheaper with most of the functionalities that we needed. Datadog had some advanced features which were not important to us, and hence we decided to go with AppOptics.
Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
Everyone used to know the names of AppDynamics and Dynatrace when it comes to APM or Application Tracing Monitoring. Since these tools were the evolver of this particular technology, I still believe that these tools are the market player. But SolarWinds AppOptics is not less, …
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We've been using Traceview and now SolarWinds AppOptics since I joined HubSpot.
Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
As an early-stage startup, we evaluated the different options on the following parameters: Functionality Monitoring overhead Cost Easy-to-use dashboard AppOptics had most of the features that we needed and offered their services at a reasonable price that made sense for …
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What we found positive in AppOptics from others is:
  • Easy to install and manage.
  • Various stack support.
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AppOptics is way more user friendly than Kibana. When you first log in to AppOptics, you have the information you need very easily while Kibana takes a lot of learning before getting your first results. Kibana almosts requires the help of developers and technicians to learn how …
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It was a decision made based on our requirements. We felt like AppOptics gave us what we need precisely. When we tried it out, we were satisfied with the performance. It didn't compare to the rest in the market.
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Azure Monitor, NGINX, Docker and Laravel PHP Framework
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We felt the competitors were both more expensive and more difficult to configure and deploy. We selected SolarWinds AppOptics because it provided better value both in terms of cost and user experience.
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I have not used other products but in my organization, one team is using Datadog for monitoring.
Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
SolarWinds AppOptics serves a specific use case for us--diving down on the application layer to identify root causes of latency. It does not offer the same use case as SignalFx, which offers metrics for the overall service and integration for custom metrics. AppOptics also does …
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The alerting capability was far better.
Transaction tracking was implemented beautifully in SolarWinds AppOptics.
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Although AppOptics is very similar to New Relic feature-wise, we choose to use it for its ease of setting up services and intuitive UI.
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We analyzed a number of alternatives to AppOptics, but none combined strong performance in all of our key areas - we needed a solution which could be deployed on premise, supported multi tenant hosts, provided the ability to analyse individual requests, presented intuitive …
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Pricing, faster, availability, easy debugging, easy to use/understand.
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AppOptics provides us visibility of the overall system. SLACK helps us to keep the communication better among our collegues. Sentry One is also being used to dive deeper into SQL queries performance tuning. SolarWinds AppOptics clearly displays the flow of information in …
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We went from a recommendation. We looked at no others
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I have previously used New Relic APM, New Relic Synthetics, New Relic Browser, New Relic Server, New Relic Insights, and Dynatrace.
Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
AppDynamics was a product that we evaluated along with AppOptics. A lot of our decision came down to price.
StormForge

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Features
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Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
SolarWinds AppOptics
6.9
Ratings
13% below category average
StormForge
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Ratings
Application monitoring8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Threshold alerts6.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities4.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration tools6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
SolarWinds AppOpticsStormForge
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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Usability
9.6
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Support Rating
9.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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
  • SolarWinds AppOptics has an easy to use and fast interface. Thus, you can use time more efficiently.
  • SolarWinds AppOptics has as many details as you want. So you only display deep details when you want.
  • SolarWinds AppOptics already has many plugins. So you can easily connect with your other services.
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Cons
  • 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
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
AppOptics has performed well for all of the major functions we have needed it for. Especially when it comes to tracking down response time issues and researching app performance for different pages and different times of day we have been able to do everything we need to. We know there are some more advanced features that could help us in more niche areas, but haven't had the time to delve deeper into using or setting them up.
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Support Rating
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
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
  • 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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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of AppOptics Home ScreenScreenshot of AppOptics DashboardScreenshot of AppOptics TracesScreenshot of AppOptics Trace Root CauseScreenshot of AppOptics InfrastructureScreenshot of Host Heat Map