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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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Review!

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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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/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.
December 14, 2022

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Nikhil Kumar Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds AppOptics is being analysed to be used as a potential Cloud Services Monitoring tool - and on a side note, also being analysed on how effectively AppOptics can be leveraged to to APM things such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace does. So we are proposing SolarWinds AppOptics to our client as the new technology monitoring tool for cloud infra, primarily.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AppOptics to monitor performance, error rate, latency, database activity, and remote calls of our applications. We use this to monitor applications running on NodeJS (Express/HAPI), Java servlet, and services running on tomcat. It provides insight into the number of requests per second, errors coming in, and some information about JMX and database parameters. This helps us debug issues, slowness, and unexpected events with ease and speed.
January 18, 2022

Review!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 variables like network packets, user counts, and this really helped us to better track our website. The data was also showcased in an interactive graph which made it easy to use to visualize our stats.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I mostly use AppOptics to monitor our website performances, response time, status code, etc. How is the loading time distributed between servers, databases, and caches? Is one of our services spiking for some reason? We use it to focus our attention on pages that need to be optimized to improve the user experience. It also helps us to focus on what needs to be optimized.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds AppOptics is one of the successful tools used to closely follow our web applications. A tool that helps us see response times and errors of our web applications. It is used by DevOps team in our company in test, staging, and production web applications. It is a service that we use to monitor healthy working environments and provide information by helping in debugging the bug when we encounter an unusual event.
July 15, 2020

Very Happy

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 changes in performance. We have also been able to see what part of the applications/stack is slow so that we can further improve things.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using SolarWinds AppOptics for application monitoring. Compared to other monitoring tools, AppOptics' GUI is the most simple and any layman can understand the functionality of it. Latency monitoring between the application or the components is easy. Integration with the application is also easy.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AppOptics for our application monitoring across the whole infrastructure. 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's being used by the department to detect performance issues like response time in the application. This helps us detect the bottlenecks in our application. This includes remote calls, database queries, cache calls. It also helps us determine the different layers in a request made. This helps in identifying ones that can be removed.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using SolarWinds AppOptics for a while. Its agent is monitoring all of our servers we run in Amazone and in Azure cloud. It is very useful when combining the dashboards and for alerting. The only thing we miss is SMS support for alerts. Also when on the Infrastructure page I notice I could find useful like "merge" function. So I can select a couple of instances and see Host details for those selected.
Dave Costantino | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SolarWinds AppOptics to monitor infrastructure running in our production SaaS environment running on AWS. It is used by the entire engineering team. If a system fails or is exhibiting performance problems, we are alerted nearly instantly and can respond before our customers even notice there is an issue.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SolarWinds AppOptics in one project. We are providing engineering services to one US-based organization and we have integrated SolarWinds AppOptics in their application for performance monitoring. AppOptics helps us to create monitoring dashboards and configure alerts if some operation crosses the threshold response time to meet SLAs. Our project is based on the healthcare domain so real-time data is very important for this and AppOptics is useful to track database response time, communication time between two services, etc.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds AppOptics is solving various APM issues for our microservices production environment.
As our infra is very huge so we haven't implemented it in the whole organization. But still, we are using it for most of the critical services. Pinpointing the issues becomes very easy during production downtimes.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AppOptics is used to help maintain the availability, efficiency and functionality of our public facing web applications and APIs - these are business critical platforms upon which internal customers, clients and suppliers all rely. AppOptics is an invaluable tool in diagnosing problems at an early stage, and gives our development team deep insight into the context of problems as they arise, as well as providing proactive monitoring of resource usage and error rates across multiple endpoints.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Monitoring infrastructure in production. We also use it to track AWS usage and its APM capabilities.
  • Whenever there's an exception or slow performance in production we use AppOptics.
  • Drilldown to slow transactions in DB or server-side code.
  • General visibility of usage vs. spending on AWS.
  • Quick view to usage statistics in AWS, instead of going to CloudWatch (for example, SNS messages).
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