SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability vs. VMware Aria Operations for Applications

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Score 7.4 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 node
VMware Aria Operations for Applications
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
VMware Aria Operations for Applications, formerly VMware Tanzu Observability or Wavefront, is a metrics monitoring service for cloud and application environments with observability and analytics tools designed to enable DevOps functions at SaaS companies where scale, performance, and reliability are essential to their business. The original technology was developed by Wavefront, which was acquired by VMware in 2017.
$1.50
per data point/second monthly
Pricing
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud ObservabilityVMware Aria Operations for Applications
Editions & Modules
Essentials
$5
per month per node
Advanced
$9
per month per node
Tanzu Observability
$1.50
per data point/second monthly
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud ObservabilityVMware Aria Operations for Applications
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud ObservabilityVMware Aria Operations for Applications
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds
- For small teams serving big organizations - it's a really simple tool to install and set up relatively quickly. - the new installer is also great - I don't have to understand what modules need to be installed; it's all streamlined. - The HCO Licensing allows you to run the Additional polling engines at a scale where the previous licensing model didn't. We can deploy APEs in locations now, which would not have been worth the investment in previously as there weren't enough devices in that location/region to spend the $$$$ on an APE License.
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Pros
SolarWinds
  • Automated dependency mapping is a big hit.
  • High availability is extremely simple to implement.
  • Simple to use and drill into issues.
  • Analysis of growth patterns driving the recommendation engine.
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Cons
SolarWinds
  • Orion maps needs to be able to map to groups like atlas can by name
  • web tool set integration, atm this needs to be removed from the server to install Observability
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Alternatives Considered
SolarWinds
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.
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Return on Investment
SolarWinds
  • Provided the opportunity to offboard a number of monitoring tools that are no longer required.
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability Screenshots

Screenshot of ITOM Executive DashboardScreenshot of Observability MapsScreenshot of Performance Analysis DashboardScreenshot of Application Alerting DashboardScreenshot of Network Path Analysis