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SolarWinds AppOptics

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What is SolarWinds AppOptics?

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.

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8 out of 10
January 18, 2022
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10 out of 10
July 15, 2020
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We use it for most of our products. We use it for many things, but to me, the main use is when we do our deployments to monitor for …
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Popular Features

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  • Application monitoring (30)
    8.5
    85%
  • Database monitoring (28)
    7.5
    75%
  • Application performance management console (26)
    7.0
    70%
  • Threshold alerts (26)
    6.3
    63%
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What is SolarWinds AppOptics?

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.

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  • No setup fee
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  • Free/Freemium Version
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Features

Application Performance Management

Application performance management software monitors software to ensure performance and availability

6.8
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

What is SolarWinds AppOptics?

SolarWinds® AppOptics™ is presented by the vendor as a SaaS-based simple, powerful and affordable Infrastructure & Application monitoring for custom on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems.

  • Full-stack visibility – Monitor the health and performance of custom on-premises and highly distributed cloud applications across services, hosts, containers, and platforms down to the code.

  • Reduce MTTR – Monitoring infrastructure and application metrics side-by-side reduces the time it takes to identify what part of the stack is failing, so you can quickly get to the root cause.

  • Auto-instrumented Root Cause – Quickly pinpoint issues; Automatically presents the most likely cause of a performance problem. Takes the guesswork out of troubleshooting.

  • Simple Setup – Up and running in minutes, easy to use and a minimal learning curve for IT professionals.

  • Integration that matters– Cohesive end to end monitoring that enables maximum observability from metrics, to traces, and down to logs.

  • Align your performance goals with business goals – Incorporate custom metrics to combine business metrics side-by-side with system metrics. See and measure the impact infrastructure and application performance has on your business performance.

  • Highly scalable – Cost-effectively scale as your business scales with analytics and trend reporting, providing you with insights into short- and long-term changes to performance and resource utilization.

SolarWinds AppOptics Screenshots

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SolarWinds AppOptics Video

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SolarWinds AppOptics Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported Languages.Net, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Scala, Node

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Datadog, New Relic, and Dynatrace are common alternatives for SolarWinds AppOptics.

Reviewers rate Application monitoring highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of SolarWinds AppOptics are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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December 15, 2022

AppOptics: A must-have for a startup

Verified User
Vice-President in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As an early-stage startup, we were looking for a solution that offered the following: Automated alerts Performance monitoring Request tracing Monitor 3rd party services AppOptics provides all of this functionality at a much lower price than its competitors such as NewRelic or Instana. We have been using them for over a year to monitor our application and AWS infrastructure. We have been very satisfied with their product. It has helped us identify various performance issues, resource bottlenecks, and issues with downstream services. In case of issues in our infrastructure or downstream services, it has helped us resolve the issue with low turnaround times. We have given access to this tool to our entire engineering team. Additionally, we have set up automated alerting and configured it to notify us through OpsGenie. UPDATE Dec-2022: It has been 2.5 years since the first review. We are still using AppOptics and we continue to reap the benefits that we have listed above.
Pros and Cons
  • Request tracing with code profiling.
  • Automated alerting on latency and response codes for each API.
  • Low resource overhead while collecting data from our application servers.
  • Highly performant dashboard that enables us to make progress rapidly.
  • Very resilient. We have not seen a downtime in their service in the entire year that we have used them.
  • Identify database and cache requests that are taking longer than expected
  • Monitoring and alerting for downstream services can be improved significantly.
  • They can make it easier and faster to setup alerts for the infrastructure and application.
Likelihood to Recommend
With the current set of features, AppOptics is a great option for startups that do not depend on downstream external services for their product. I have already recommended it to some friends working at other startups. I am rating it 8/10 instead of 10/10 because its monitoring of downstream services is inadequate. In our company, we have a monolithic application. So, we don't have an opinion on how it would operate in a service-oriented architecture. Dec 2022: 2.5 years since the first review, I have seen a significant improvement in the monitoring of downstream services. We have leveraged AppOptics to identify requests to Database and Cache with anomalous behaviour. Additionally, they have also made it easier to track the performance of API requests made to external services. Hence, I updated the rating to 9/10. The reason I have not scored it a 10/10 is because setting up alarms can be made easier.
SolarWinds AppOptics Feature Ratings
Application Performance Management (10)
54%
5.4
Application monitoring
100%
10.0
Database monitoring
100%
10.0
Threshold alerts
80%
8.0
Application performance management console
90%
9.0
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
70%
7.0
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
N/A
N/A
Virtualization monitoring
N/A
N/A
Server availability and performance monitoring
100%
10.0
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
N/A
N/A
IT Asset Discovery
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Faster Troubleshooting of issues in the infrastructure or our application, which helped us reduce downtime
  • Helped us identify and resolve resource bottlenecks, which in turn, helped reduce our overall footprint and operational costs.
  • It enables us to continuously monitor our application and alert us. This has allowed us to focus on product development without worrying about any underlying, hidden issues.
Alternatives Considered
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 us. While CloudWatch provided a lot of the required functionality, we needed to spend a lot of time configuring it as per our needs.
Users and Roles
11
All the users of our AppOptics portal are in the Engineering team. This is a mix of technical leaders, Devops engineers and software developers.
Support Headcount Required
1
After enabling AppOptics in our setup, we have not dedicated any significant amount of time to support our internal use of the tool. It has been extremely low maintenance for us.
Business Processes Supported
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • Automated Alerting
  • Application performance monitoring
  • Reduce MTTD and MTTR for issues
Future Planned Uses
  • Leverage it for monitoring in multi-service and multi-cloud environments
Likelihood to Renew
10
We have been using AppOptics for over 3.5 years and expect to continue to renew it for the foreseeable future.
Other Software Used
December 13, 2022

A Great Product for an Affordable Price.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently utilize SolarWinds AppOptics for both infrastructure and application performance monitoring. We mainly use it to see application errors, and locate any issues that cause other than optimal performance in the application. We provide the information gathered from SolarWinds AppOptics to our application support/development/configuration management and database administration teams to take corrective action on what may be causing the errors or other than optimal performance. SolarWinds AppOptics is an affordable solution to monitoring your application's performance.
Pros and Cons
  • Identifies errors experienced by our end users.
  • Locates application errors.
  • Provides insight into our end users' overall application experience.
  • Allows us to know that our application performance monitoring solutions is in good hands.
  • Not applicable.
  • SolarWinds AppOptics is a solid, affordable product on par with other APMs I've used in the past.
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds AppOptics provides our Monitoring Team with full visibility into our end users' overall application experience while using our application. Our application is our product provided to our clients, so having the ability to keep a close watch on errors, slow performance, etc. are vital to our company as a whole. It is a great product and quickly identifies areas of need in our application to better assist our technical resources with correcting issues and providing a better product and service to our clients.
SolarWinds AppOptics Feature Ratings
Application Performance Management (12)
55%
5.5
Application monitoring
100%
10.0
Database monitoring
90%
9.0
Threshold alerts
100%
10.0
Predictive capabilities
N/A
N/A
Application performance management console
100%
10.0
Collaboration tools
N/A
N/A
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
100%
10.0
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
N/A
N/A
Virtualization monitoring
N/A
N/A
Server availability and performance monitoring
90%
9.0
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
80%
8.0
IT Asset Discovery
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Less downtime.
  • Easily locate issues in configuration or backend issues causing errors.
  • Quick insight into how our application is performing.
  • More confidence in what we are doing.
Alternatives Considered
I have previously used New Relic APM, New Relic Synthetics, New Relic Browser, New Relic Server, New Relic Insights, and Dynatrace.
Products Replaced
Yes
Solarwinds AppOptics replaced a product from a competing vendor. It came in at a much better price point, increasing ROI for my organization, while maintaining a high level of usability/benefit.
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Other
Price/Features/Use Case Scenario/Rep/and using other excellent products from Solarwinds made this an easy choice for my organization.
Other Software Used
May 19, 2020

Fast and simple way to see application performance

Verified User
Manager in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use SolarWinds AppOptics to gather high-level information on bottlenecks and quickly drill down into problematic requests and identify things I can fix.
Pros and Cons
  • Aggregate info to show problems
  • Show layer by layer overview of where time is spent
  • Might be related to our setup but correlating info between different apps is not possible.
Likelihood to Recommend
I love the ease with which SolarWinds AppOptics allows me to get information about our web services.
SolarWinds AppOptics Feature Ratings
Application Performance Management (12)
35%
3.5
Application monitoring
70%
7.0
Database monitoring
100%
10.0
Threshold alerts
70%
7.0
Predictive capabilities
N/A
N/A
Application performance management console
90%
9.0
Collaboration tools
N/A
N/A
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
N/A
N/A
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
90%
9.0
Virtualization monitoring
N/A
N/A
Server availability and performance monitoring
N/A
N/A
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
N/A
N/A
IT Asset Discovery
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • It definitely allowed me to more quickly troubleshoot issues.
Alternatives Considered
We've been using Traceview and now SolarWinds AppOptics since I joined HubSpot.
Other Software Used
May 15, 2020

Great tool for application monitoring

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SolarWinds AppOptics is being used to help engineers debug issues within the entire application stack, from the API call all the way down to the actual database. It's a very powerful tool to isolate latency and reliability issues that you can't typically find in logs or metrics, unless you make those very granular.
Pros and Cons
  • Full application stack trace
  • Measuring latency
  • Providing historical map of calls
  • It's confusing sometimes to dig into a trace, like certain levels don't have much info. AppOptics just says this level occupies 95% of the call time.
  • It would be nice to have AppOptics identify if the root cause of an issue was caused by a dependency, e.g. another service it calls. It would be great to chain them together.
  • Not very intuitive, if you don't know what you're doing or know what to look for.
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds AppOptics is a great tool if you want to debug latency or go deep into a specific endpoint to investigate the full stack call. However, when looking at the overall health of your service and its dependencies, it won't give you the overview you're looking for. We use SignalFx to provide us with the view of the "forest" and SolarWinds AppOptics to provide us a view of a "tree." It would be great if AppOptics suited both situations, so you didn't have to switch between tools.
SolarWinds AppOptics Feature Ratings
Application Performance Management (12)
25%
2.5
Application monitoring
70%
7.0
Database monitoring
30%
3.0
Threshold alerts
30%
3.0
Predictive capabilities
30%
3.0
Application performance management console
70%
7.0
Collaboration tools
N/A
N/A
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
N/A
N/A
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
70%
7.0
Virtualization monitoring
N/A
N/A
Server availability and performance monitoring
N/A
N/A
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
N/A
N/A
IT Asset Discovery
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • It helps debug an application issue much faster than using logs.
  • Provides a decent overview of the stack you're using for an integrated service
  • Requires investment to integrate it with your software.
Alternatives Considered
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 not keep logs of your service or enable searches on them like Kibana. It serves a different use case than the products listed above.
Other Software Used
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