SolarWinds Observability vs. Virtana

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Virtana
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Virtana delivers enterprise-grade deep hybrid infrastructure observability, enabling organizations to achieve visibility and control across their entire IT estate. The platform unifies monitoring of on-premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments, to transform complex infrastructure management into a strategic advantage. Core Platform Capabilities Deep Infrastructure Observability: · Automated topology discovery and mapping · Real…
$0
Pricing
SolarWinds ObservabilityVirtana
Editions & Modules
Essentials
$5
per month per node
Advanced
$9
per month per node
Free
$0
Pro
$5
per month per device
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SolarWinds ObservabilityVirtana
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is set per node, per month, and billing is annual. The prices listed are base prices that could increase depending on your environment. Please speak to a representative to get a quote.Volume discounts are available (600+ devices / month) A device is any running AWS EC2 or Azure VM evaluated by Virtana Optimize in a given month
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
SolarWinds Observability
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
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 …
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 …
Virtana
Chose Virtana
We selected Zenoss because we had been using it for years before these other solutions were considered nearly robust enough to potentially be a viable alternative to Zenoss. Our familiarity with the interface and the tool set made it an easy choice for us to continue to …
Chose Virtana
Zenoss not just monitor the Hybrid Cloud, it also perform the Event Management and that gives edge on others
Chose Virtana
We don't have much to say bad about other services. We just found that Metricly was a good fit for us. And their customer support is really really good. So if we get stuck we simply reach out for help which hasn't been very often. We didn't get that kind of support from other …
Chose Virtana
We strongly prefer Metricly for AWS Cost Analysis -- whereas other tools are easier to use on a traditional monitoring basis. To be clear, Merticly's monitoring tools are GREAT, but they require tuning and manual setup that we didn't have the time for on a small Platform …
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User Ratings
SolarWinds ObservabilityVirtana
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolarWinds ObservabilityVirtana
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Zenoss is one of the most economical low cost monitoring/AIOPS tools available in the market. This goes excellent when complete infra is monitoring by itself however if its receiving the events from other monitoring tool then the Event management uses cases will be limited.
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Pros
  • unlimited APEs included
  • all modules under one platform
  • overall cost savings when compared to buying multiple APEs and modules, NetFlow NCM, Ipam, etc.
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  • The flexibility to monitor almost anything.
  • The graphical interface available for servers and database planning helps to make it easier.
  • Easy to integrate other solutions under zenoss.
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Cons
  • 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.
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  • Support for streaming data is on the roadmap must currently be addressed via a third-party app.
  • For some customers, a hybrid on-prem/cloud model may be a better fit than a pure cloud model. The onsite collectors offer some, but not all, of this functionality.
  • Tighter integration with third-party (AppDynamics, etc) and/or built-in app performance tools.
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Usability
- decent ease of use - good training materials - good documentation - acceptable level of expected knowledge
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
Anytime we've had issues they have been very responsive and professional.
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Alternatives Considered
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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We selected Zenoss because we had been using it for years before these other solutions were considered nearly robust enough to potentially be a viable alternative to Zenoss. Our familiarity with the interface and the tool set made it an easy choice for us to continue to upgrade and use the product.
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Return on Investment
  • Helps us maintain application availability
  • Helps us shorten unplanned downtime
  • Provides these benefits at a fair price
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  • We were able to save double-digit percentages on our monthly bill due to cutting back on hardware that was not needed.
  • We save time by not having to run across various dashboards and instead have a central place to monitor our infrastructure.
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Observability Screenshots

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