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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
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)
    7.0
    70%
  • Threshold alerts (26)
    6.3
    63%
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SolarWinds AppOptics

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

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

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December 31, 2022

AppOptics+loggly is cost-effective.

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it works well with AWS. If you are using other SolarWinds products, specially Loggly than this might be a good choice as it would be easy to correlate and makes troubleshooting a bit easy. Pricing is good for small to mid-size infra, just clear it up on how you will use licenses (packs).
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
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.
December 14, 2022

Master Player just Born

Nikhil Kumar Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nikhil Kumar Sharma
Associate Consultant
HCL Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds AppOptics is a fit tool for monitoring modern technologies such as Cloud Services (AWs, Azure), Micro Services, SaaS solution - which would not require on-premises like attention for Maintenance, Patching etc, and hence no un-necessary downtime since it is being managed by Vendor itself. It also helps in application tracing like an APM tool.
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
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.
September 24, 2022

AppOptics - Monitoring tool for emerging organisations.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AppOptics is good for small to medium-sized organizations with less than 150 servers or less than 40 services to monitor. It performs well for this use case where people need to get an overview of application performance, and 95%ile data is okay. Somewhere every data point and every record is critical; it should be avoided.
January 18, 2022

Review!

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
E-Learning Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Very useful for monitoring your application and [tracking] its uptime/downtime. The graph is super interactive and customization as well and the dashboard and be configured to fit your needs. The theme (light and dark modes) will also be an additional welcome bonus!
December 11, 2020

How AppOtics make our life easier

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Internet Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Here is one scenario where AppOptics is well suited: when we deploy a new release. When you work on big projects, it is sometimes hard to evaluate all the impacts that our new release will have on our production environment. AppOptics allows us to monitor very easily the release behavior on production. Another scenario: when we'd like to optimize our website. AppOptics shows us what page is the most used and which one takes the most time to load and how the loading time is distributed between servers, database, and cache. That is very useful to focus our efforts on what's is important for our users.
July 24, 2020

The best-priced performance APM solution in our industry

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Internet Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have a web application and present it to others using remote servers, all the scenarios you have are eligible to use SolarWinds AppOptics. But there are of course some conditions. For example, to speak for SolarWinds AppOptics APM, the language you use in your web application will affect whether you use the SolarWinds AppOptics APM service.
May 17, 2020

Monitoring is Now More Easy

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As I already mentioned in the use case section, AppOptics provides a very deep-dive and point to point metrics and alerts for the various microservices which help to track and identify various issues which may/could cause the instability in our application flow. So if I need to check my latency stats from one microservice to another, and if latency rate is higher than usual, we can easily trace the number of facts with the help of AppOptics like:
1) Current response code from the API.
2) Number of DB connections.
3) Queries requested from app to DB.
4) Queries that track latency.
5) Failing APIs.

May 16, 2020

AppOptics Review

Verified User
Manager in Engineering
Entertainment Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I like to have it open with the last 60 minutes of data, especially during our deployments to monitor changes in the load of the website infrastructure. The only annoying thing is that I have to constantly refresh it myself to see the change.
May 16, 2020

Detect bottlenecks in your application

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Arun Sundaresan
Senior Software Engineer
Mindgeek (Entertainment, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is best for the detection of bottle necks in the application. It gives an idea of the different layers the application spends time in. The average response time and request rate give us a rough idea of what we are doing. Transaction details help in determining finer points in the application. It could do better with a lot of server performance stats as well. Maybe we need to set it up.
May 15, 2020

Use SolarWinds AppOptics to see what you don't.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If your application requires detailed monitoring, alerting, and metrics all of kind, SolarWinds AppOptics would be a great fit for your organization. I have been using multiple APM tools but SolarWinds AppOptics is the best one so far.
May 15, 2020

Good value for cloud infrastructure monitoring!

Dave Costantino | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dave Costantino
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
Datarista, Inc (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds AppOptics is well suited for monitoring an environment with a diverse set of infrastructure, due to its wide variety of integrations supporting third party software and services. It is especially suitable for cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) where infrastructure is more dynamic in nature.
May 15, 2020

SolarWinds AppOptics: Must-try application

Verified User
Contributor in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds AppOptics is a great tool to monitor the health and performance of micro-services. Nowadays, every big organization is using distributed architecture, and application monitoring is an essential part of that. So SolarWinds AppOptics is providing almost every feature which is required to monitor a large distributed system.
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
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.
May 10, 2020

Works okay for Python but needs work

Greg Smethells | TrustRadius Reviewer
Greg Smethells
CTO and Software Architect
Medstrat, Inc. (Medical Device, 11-50 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Any web app that needs distributed tracing and transaction monitoring is well suited for this product. Python support for Gunicorn is good. Python support for celery tasks has been broken for some time. Releases of the Python language binding are infrequent. There is no GitLab or GitHub project to submit tickets to which would help with issue tracking for users.
May 07, 2020

AppOptics gives us insight into how our apps *actually* perform

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Facilities Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In our experience, AppOptics is most suited to ASP.NET Applications or APIs running on IIS, using SQL Server as a persistence layer. AppOptics gives a good visualization of each request, and crucially how that individual request interacted with SQL Server. This enables to us monitor the effectiveness of our in-app caching as well as the impact of cache misses on performance and responsiveness of our apps. In addition, capturing of exceptions is detailed and intuitive, providing mostly complete stack traces where problems occur. This is invaluable to our development team, who can use the wealth of information provided about a problematic request to in many cases reproduce the issue without having to seek additional information from the customer. This expedites the fact-finding portion of our support activity, leading to more timely fixes being deployed to production.
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