SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor vs. Velocimetrics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Score 7.7 out of 10
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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.N/A
Velocimetrics
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Velocimetrics is an application performance management platform from the UK-headquartered company of the same name.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSAM pricing starts at $2,995.
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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 Server & Application Monitor
6.5
280 Ratings
17% below category average
Velocimetrics
6.2
1 Ratings
21% below category average
Application monitoring7.0270 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Database monitoring7.0234 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Threshold alerts6.8275 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Predictive capabilities6.0219 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Application performance management console7.3243 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Collaboration tools5.7151 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.5260 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding5.5220 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring7.3238 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring7.0273 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting6.8254 Ratings5.01 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery5.7202 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(278 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(10 ratings)
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Usability
8.6
(29 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Availability
9.9
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
6.0
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(21 ratings)
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Online Training
4.5
(1 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
4.5
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Configurability
1.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
4.5
(2 ratings)
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Product Scalability
9.9
(3 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
4.5
(2 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
4.5
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds
It is a well-suited software for monitoring and surveillance of your deployed nodes. The error-readability and filter options for filtering out logs and errors could be improved. But overall, it has a good UI design, is user-friendly, and is very easy to learn and access for new users.
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Velocimetrics
Velocimetrics can be used for analytics of orders and payments. It can track and analyse the real-time performance of every single trade or payment traversing business critical processes, with immediate access to predictive analytics. It also helps in trading and many options available for analytics with different data with accuracy and with clear information.
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Pros
SolarWinds
  • Monitor Azure Cloud Severs- We use SolarWinds SAM to monitor Active Directory and DNS on Several DCs published on Azure Cloud.
  • Monitor Hyper V and VMware - SolarWinds SAM monitors applications on both Hyper V and VMware, while also monitoring the physical host machines.
  • It also helps us monitor Warranty expiration for physical servers.
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Velocimetrics
  • Order tracking
  • Payments tracing
  • Analytics
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Cons
SolarWinds
  • Custom application monitors can be a little tricky to configure.
  • Logic in custom alerts can be a little hard to follow and figure out.
  • Inability to monitor certificates on custom applications or SQL Server.
  • Can be a little slow at times with on-prem SQL server.
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Velocimetrics
  • Charts
  • Extra options to track payments quickly.
  • User interface
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Likelihood to Renew
SolarWinds
We are heavily invested in Solarwinds products for a reason. They are generally easy to setup and run with, requiring only some interfacing with support or help articles on rare occasions. They do what we bought them to do and we can't ask for more.
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Velocimetrics
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Usability
SolarWinds
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is quite easy to use and super versatile. It allows you to do just about anything you can through premade templates or through scripting. You can use an agent on the servers if you want to, or you can monitor through WMI or SNMP credentials. You can customize thresholds for alerting quickly, and you can configure alerts to be as complex or as simple as you want.
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Velocimetrics
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Reliability and Availability
SolarWinds
The tool works and monitors items 24x7, it only requires maintenance a little more frequently due to security fixes in the Windows operating system.
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Velocimetrics
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Performance
SolarWinds
The graphical interface and the performance of the database leave a little to be desired, they could be better explored.Some functionality and screens do not work well depending on the browser used. The integrations never had any problems or caused crashes in other systems.
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Velocimetrics
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Support Rating
SolarWinds
I think there was only a couple times I had to open a support case for SAM and one time they got multiple engineers on the phone to get a better idea what I was trying to monitor and was able to point me in the best direction to monitor that system.
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Velocimetrics
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Online Training
SolarWinds
It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.
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Velocimetrics
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Implementation Rating
SolarWinds
Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time
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Velocimetrics
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Alternatives Considered
SolarWinds
Nagios requires far more manual work to configure than SolarWinds does, though that also encourages customization and perfect-fit solutions. Nagios also requires far, far fewer resources to run than SolarWinds: SolarWinds wants great gobs of memory and disk, while Nagios is refreshingly humble. Nagios starts working from the first minute, too, whereas SolarWinds needs lots of set-up time.
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Velocimetrics
Velocimetrics has options which can help in analytics and can used to analyse the data. Velocimetrics is less cost and have good support for payments and order finding. It has real time data processing and efficient data analytics features. It also have good cloud connection to store data and to reuse if we need.
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Scalability
SolarWinds
It is hard to find the recommended SQL setup and convince others that is the way you should configure the server when you set it up
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Velocimetrics
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Return on Investment
SolarWinds
  • Ability to sunset multiple legacy monitoring platforms.
  • A single pane of glass across global locations (Enterprise Operations Console) simplifies monitoring for junior staff.
  • A single toolset allows staff from across the global environment to share knowledge and quickly set up/modify monitoring.
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Velocimetrics
  • Cost management
  • RoI
  • Time management
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ScreenShots

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