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SolarWinds AppOptics

Overview

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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1. Lack of Integration with GCP, Oracle, and Service Now: Several users have mentioned that the software does not support integration with …
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8 out of 10
January 18, 2022
Incentivized
This product has [helped] me to do Performance management for my website. I was able to get detailed and real-time statistics of various …
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Very Happy

10 out of 10
July 15, 2020
Incentivized
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)
    6.9
    69%
  • Threshold alerts (26)
    6.3
    63%
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Pricing

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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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.appoptics.com/pricing

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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

Screenshot of AppOptics Home ScreenScreenshot of AppOptics DashboardScreenshot of AppOptics TracesScreenshot of AppOptics Trace Root CauseScreenshot of AppOptics InfrastructureScreenshot of Host Heat Map

SolarWinds AppOptics Video

Learn more: http://slrwnds.com/AppOpticsApplication AppOptics provides real-time visibility into any application by collecting both high-fidelity metrics and detailed transaction traces. With its distributed tracing functionality, you can follow requests across processes, hos...
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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

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 Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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.
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.
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
  • 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.
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.
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.
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.
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • Automated Alerting
  • Application performance monitoring
  • Reduce MTTD and MTTR for issues
  • Leverage it for monitoring in multi-service and multi-cloud environments
We have been using AppOptics for over 3.5 years and expect to continue to renew it for the foreseeable future.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the APM for a single department so far. It helps us dig into performance degradation events of our java web services.
  • Compares performance to previous day/week.
  • Shows detail of traced requests including DB queries and cache calls.
  • Performs quickly and has little lag time between reported detail.
  • Report filtering could be more powerful.
  • Date comparison options like 4 weeks ago instead of 1 month.
APM over a highly used java service will perform quickly and efficiently.
Application Performance Management (11)
38.18181818181819%
3.8
Application monitoring
90%
9.0
Database monitoring
80%
8.0
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
N/A
N/A
Virtualization monitoring
N/A
N/A
Server availability and performance monitoring
90%
9.0
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
N/A
N/A
  • Faster turnaround time during performance events.
  • Improve efficiency of services lowering resource usage.
Yes
Stackify APM because it could not keep up with our traffic of around 50rps without lagging metrics by 5-15 minutes. AppOptics remains fast and up to date within a minute.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Features. It provides deep insight and metrics, combined with clear reporting to offer actionable ideas.
5
Software engineer
1
Devops
  • Debugging
  • Performance investigation
  • Optimization
  • Uncover 3rd party root causes
  • Compare prior performance
  • Track more services
  • Track server metrics
Prior comparisons, fast metrics and decent reporting
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