SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset vs. SolarWinds Observability

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

SolarWinds Observability

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset	Score 7.7 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) helps users monitor and troubleshoot a network with over 60 tools for network management. ETS allows users to monitor and receive alerts in real time on network availability and health, and perform network diagnostics for faster troubleshooting and resolution of complex network issues. With ETS users can deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper or advanced Subnet Calculator, manage Cisco® devices with specialized…	$1,585 Per Instance
SolarWinds Observability	Score 7.9 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability aims to provide a comprehensive, integrated, and full-stack solution designed to optimize performance, improve availability, and reduce remediation time by correlating data from across the IT ecosystem, including networks, servers, applications, databases, and more.	$5 per month per node

Pricing

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

SolarWinds Observability

Editions & Modules

One Time Price: $1,585
Per Instance

Essentials: $5
per month per node
Advanced: $9
per month per node

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset	SolarWinds Observability
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset	SolarWinds Observability
Considered Both Products	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Jacob Garrett Senior System Engineer Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset [Wireshark is just] not the same. It feels like in incomplete product. [SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset] is complete, not buggy and is supported[.] Incentivized Helpful? TO Thomas Osborne Network System Administrator Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset I haven't compared any tools similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. This might be because I'm pretty biased when it comes to monitoring, and reporting solutions. I've found that SolarWinds provides the biggest bang for the buck in my opinion. I'm sure there are other … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Tom Public Safety Systems Engineer Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset We honestly didn't look at much beyond this because of all of the tools this toolset had in it. We found a use for a good chunk of them right away, and are finding more every month it seems like. We really wanted to make use of the majority of the tools included so we could … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset To be honest, I'm not aware of any other toolset from a competitor that is remotely comparable. All other monitoring systems/vendors tend to use standard browser viewable monitoring systems and the option to use a locally installed software, to obtain the same results is not … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset We have used LogicMonitor, PRTG and WhatsUp Gold previously which are similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset capability. However SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is completely unique with features like - Realtime monitoring, diagnostics on the fly, network discovery, easy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset The suite of tools included is better than any other offering that I have found. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset These tools complement the Engineer's Toolset. They are excellent at detecting most issues and at keeping the network monitored and protected. However, when it comes time to dig into an issue, especially a hard to fix intermittent issue, these products lack the granularity of … Incentivized Helpful? ES Eric Stephenson Manager IS Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset I love the NPM package, but if you are doing one-off monitoring to diagnose, SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is more than adequate. The main drawback with SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is the monitoring is only valid as long as you have the laptop on (obviously). NPM provides for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Because it's a great tool. Very useful, convenient and reliant, We use it to monitor out production servers and it works just great. I use it pretty much every day, and it is very good monitoring system, that allows proactively troubleshoot certain areas, because you can see … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset SolarWinds by far exceeds the abilities of other products, and is more easily tuned to the environments. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset SolarWinds NPM and NCM use a lot of the tools available in the toolset. This is a nice combo of the two with a little bit of IPAM thrown in. I would say the toolset is geared more toward the field engineer, that will be doing work that may sever communications to the rest of … Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Observability Gary Lee EVP - Enterprise Applications Chose SolarWinds Observability - SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is less expensive - SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability does more right out of the box - Splunk is more highly configurable Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Kolyvas Platform Engineer Chose SolarWinds Observability The primary motivator to disqualify PRTG was the limit of nodes. Above 10,000 nodes are required, and an additional separate primary polling host. This would have meant managing two separate instances and was not an acceptable or viable approach. The sales support and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Observability Solarwinds has the best overlap of the two others I've mentioned - the other two tools (datadog and dynatrace) are great in their own way but Solarwinds is just good at everything; if I had to pick one tool of the above, it would be Solarwinds for the compatibility and ease of … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset	SolarWinds Observability
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset	SolarWinds Observability
Likelihood to Recommend	[SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is] a great tool for monitoring database servers, highly recommended. The very good thing is that it keeps the history for two weeks, and you can see the time slice for all the server activities. Helps a lot to identify the memory and CPU bottlenecks, research blocking issues and kill the sessions, if necessary. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	For mid-market and larger, HCO provides a highly available single pane of glass. The user and group management provides a granular ability to deploy to the various areas of the support and engineering teams. Integration to ITSM platforms ensures that information from the platform flows in real time to the right people. Incentivized Andrew Kolyvas Platform Engineer Read full review
Pros	Debugging Tools Saves Time for basic checks Ping, Telnet, SSH right from the console and hence easy user management from console itself Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Read full review	unlimited APEs included all modules under one platform overall cost savings when compared to buying multiple APEs and modules, NetFlow NCM, Ipam, etc. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	The unifying component that is intended to be the initial interface to the tools seems clunky. I prefer to start the tools individually rather than using it. The port scanner could use some improvements to make it easier to use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Please fix the time zones issue. Events are in UTC, Charts in the user's Local Time, Alerts come in through with Main Server timestamp - it's all over the place & it's been like that for so long. We are a large corp, the teams span time zones and trying to work with teams across the globe is made so difficult by this. The inability to ingest the tags from AWS Cloud watch and the countless posts / feature requests on thwack complaining about this that just get ignored. It's such a basic feature of Cloud & I don't want to have to own a different product to use such an fundamental part of cloud. Maintenance Windows - why can we not set a reoccurring window from the web ui in 2022? SAM - Manage applications, why is there no search bar to filter through applications. When you scale out to enterprise size this is so annoying trying to guess which page to land on to find the application / device I'm looking for. http://hostname/Orion/APM/Admin/Applications/Default.aspx Half baked features being released - Log Analyzer shipped with no resources for the node details page. The Free version from 2016 had more available in it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Very easy to use and intuitive. Just be careful with the WAN Killer...it does what it says. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	- decent ease of use - good training materials - good documentation - acceptable level of expected knowledge Incentivized Gary Lee EVP - Enterprise Applications Read full review
Support Rating	Our organization uses it regularly. It is reliable, and we keep finding new uses for it Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	These tools complement the Engineer's Toolset. They are excellent at detecting most issues and at keeping the network monitored and protected. However, when it comes time to dig into an issue, especially a hard to fix intermittent issue, these products lack the granularity of monitoring needed for these types of issues. Having said that the toolset is not made to do full time enterprise level monitoring. With these tools and the toolset I am able to have a more complete view of the network and deliver higher levels of service and quicker responses to issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Solarwinds has the best overlap of the two others I've mentioned - the other two tools (Datadog and Dynatrace) are great in their own way but Solarwinds is just good at everything; if I had to pick one tool of the above, it would be Solarwinds for the compatibility and ease of use, the other tools are more focused on being great at certain things while Solarwinds is the jack of all trades. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Spend less time downloading free buggy tools All the tools in one spot, so you don't have to look around for tools Get to the solution sooner Incentivized Jacob Garrett Senior System Engineer Read full review	Helps us maintain application availability Helps us shorten unplanned downtime Provides these benefits at a fair price Incentivized Gary Lee EVP - Enterprise Applications Read full review
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