SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Reviews

We make use of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor throughout the whole organization. It has solved many issues for us, from quickly monitoring our infrastructure and alerting when systems are down, when resources (eg disk space) are running low to giving us a single view into our virtualization, network, as well as server environment. It is our number one tool for monitoring of the environment and allows us to not only be proactive when it comes to potential outages, but also allows us to quickly diagnose faults and incidents and resolve the outage quickly so that staff are able to carry on working.

In terms of monitoring challenges, our first consideration was what to monitor, what was currently being monitored and lastly was there anything missing which we were not able to monitor easily in the past? Once we worked out those challenges, we set out to optimize and expand our monitoring system based on our environment with SolarWinds.

Because of the vast differences in technology, whether hardware or software, and the various methods SolarWinds was able to poll and interrogate those systems, this allowed us to implement a single tool to monitor, alert us, as well as pinpoint faults of different systems and technology all from one "Portal."

Having multiple approaches or systems all monitoring different aspects of your environment means there is a chance information gets lost, individual systems to continually manage and update with no integration between any of them.

[SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor] is used to monitor the status of our operational technology platform used by production critical systems. It operates behind a firewall without internet connectivity and we use it to notify of issues with our VMware cluster, windows server VMs, and physical windows workstations. It also tracks the status of services at a basic level (eg IIS website up or down). It is capable of more advanced monitoring and analysis but we haven't used those features in great detail yet.
It does work well, however can be a little noisy with email alerts if you don't put some effort into tuning resource thresholds for VMs especially.

Extremely important. Single systems offer one place to go for status and also troubleshooting. We have this system monitoring machines in different firewall zones and this can have security benefits and disadvantages, it limits the amount of different systems you give access to resources, but the increases the footprint of potential harm if that system were to be compromised.

We use Solarwinds Server and Application Monitor for our customers Server and Application Infrastructure monitoring such as Windows, Linux, Unix, AIX server infra which are on-premises as well as on cloud. We also do monitor their applications such as enterprise application Office365, Teams, Skype For Business, SAP, Databases (SQL, MYSQL, Oracle).

Solarwinds Server and Application Monitor has really made our jobs easy by having a single product to monitor On-Premises, Hosted and cloud infrastructure monitoring in one place. In the background it might do so many different things like polling API, do SNMP, do WMI, ping agent etc. but in front end it all looks same. Hence solves the problem of multi diverse infra monitoring via single tool

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is currently being used to monitor services, process, URLs, and various other things on Windows and Unix servers. It is also used to monitor network devices through traps and certain script monitors. It is a cheaper way to monitor these items throughout the system. It allows for easy and quick access, and even incite to the environment. It offers a wide range of usage just by being able to configure and run scripts as monitors. One of the key features that allowed Regions to choose to use it, is the option to not have to install an agent on a server. You can use WMI or SNMP to app monitoring.

We use on-premises for SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor. It was a key point that we needed. We are moving slowly to more cloud infrastructure, however most of the monitoring products need to be on-premises with a bank. We know that Solarwinds offers all of the various options and we will use them if and when needed.

It is being used to monitor servers and application metrics all over the many Infosys clients' IT environments. I use it to gather metrics of servers CPU, Memory, Disk, and much more and alert on them. Also, it is very useful to monitor application processes and performance counters and set up an alert for them.

We are monitoring CPU, Disk, and Memory at the server level and we are monitoring applications like reporting applications, security applications, compliance applications, etc. It has helped us a lot. We have different kinds of scheduled reports, including for availability, disk usage, etc. to keep us posted. We have remediation action alerts like starting up IIS pools automatically when they go down and much more.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is mainly used by our IT department, but our IT department uses it in a way to support other departments throughout our organization.

As mentioned in previous questions similar to this, having the ability to get a server or application back up and running is important. Having the ability to know if a server is going to run low on resources is also important. We have had both scenarios happen in our environment and SolarWinds has been the key component in helping us.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor module is used across our entire infrastructure. It gives visibility into a lot of data and issues across the organization.

The single tool for all the monitoring is good. But SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is good mainly from an infrastructure perspective. This will become a very old-gen tool when the new AI tools come to market that can do a lot more.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is widely used in my organization to track all the network related issues and performances. It helps my organization to get the issues resolved in very fast and convenient ways. It just minimizes the use of various vendor applications to one application. Also, the vendor support is up to the mark.

It's very much important to have a single approach to monitoring the heterogeneous environments of network. You can easily bifurcate the server issues and profits with a couple of clicks. Different supportive deployment architectures can be used and monitored by a single approach. Client-server module can get much more informative by this approach.

SolarWinds brings our uptime up by allowing fewer people to monitor applications and servers in a single application with a great notification system. Previously, I had been using a variety of programs that this new one suite can do. It is easy to use. In addition, the option to prioritize notifications allows for better and more accurate resource allocations.

SolarWinds allowed for a few members of staff to track a number of systems in various locations, as well as remind us of systems that are out there that are rarely used. Easy to implement and get going and grow into additional features and complexity. Very handy, and great to have consolidated views of systems, issues, performance, etc. The implementation is really easy which is great as to not add a great deal of additional burden to a team.

We use SAM to monitor all of our servers (across 4 different sites in North America) as well as our store registers (Over 350 stores). We report and get alerts on disk space, high CPU/Memory usage, running processes and just implemented AppInsight for Exchange (which is awesome).

Solarwinds allows our company to monitor our servers 24/7. When we have emergencies, downtimes we instantly get a notification via the app and SMS. Their monitoring process has literally saved us thousands of dollars!

Before we started using SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor we would experience downtimes and wouldn't even be aware until customers called and asked why we were offline, poor hosting companies left our business susceptible to downtimes. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor allowed us make an informed decision switching to a more reliable host and still monitor 24/7. We saved our business's reputation via SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor.

Solarwinds is used by Vizient's IT ops department to monitor server and network endpoints for up/down status, drive space issues, services up/down, etc.

Our administrators love using Solarwinds because they can view our entire environment from a single pane of glass. Solarwinds ease of use is also second to none. It can scan and automatically add a new server or network nodes into Solarwinds to monitor them as well - which saves our admins from having to do manual scans or entries. It is a huge time saver for us.

Server and Application Monitor has been deployed to all servers within our client's organization, and it has enabled our support team and the client's staff to identify potential issues before they become critical saving time and money. The application monitor elements allow us to keep tabs on the health of key business applications such as email, SQL, and identify and resolve issues quickly.

Our client has been able to monitor their entire estate, regardless of it being located in a mixture of on-premises physical machines, VMWare virtual machines, and cloud-based servers in Azure. It really is a one-stop-shop for monitoring and pulls all the metrics and alerts into one single pane of glass, making the life of the support teams a lot easier.

SolarWinds SAM is being used by one of my customers in their department. I was responsible for the installation/configuration/ day to day operations of SAM. My customer is utilizing SAM to replace their previous monitoring product. SAM is used for them to be able to monitor servers and applications, to ensure their environment is healthy.

Solarwinds is designed in a way where all additional SolarWinds products you purchase are integrated straight into the web console. This ensures a simple to use interface for the team, resulting in understanding the performance of our environment faster.

We have production-level servers that we are wanting metrics on for data processing. We want to know the loads they are under and the amount of connections that are being made to them. The sites we host for our customers need settings and configuration changes to help improve responsiveness and reduce load times. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor dives deep into these servers and the applications they run like IIS and Apache and points out areas where speed and data accessibility can be improved with code changes, optimized settings, and updated versions of internal applications. While it's a very robust system and there is a lot to learn, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor has the ability to optimize servers and a production environment to better improve customer-accessible sites and portals for data retrieval.

We run a lot of different systems using IIS, SQL Server, Apache, and Kubernetes servers to help provide information, mostly via hosted websites, for individual customers. These are template-based systems, often providing very similar views to multiple customers, changing options like logos, inventory, etc. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor has so far given multiple developers, managers, and application programmers the ability to see where changes can be made to improve speed and access to these customer web sites.

SolarWinds helps our team to manage the network and all of the servers we support for our entire line of centers across Marriott International. Prior to SolarWinds, our server management was done manually, and was not very organized. We were unable to collect much data. After implementing SolarWinds, we were able to manage the network and servers in a more efficient way. We were also able to provide much better data for both of these areas.

The ability to monitor the mass amount of servers from one place, rather than doing it manually greatly increased the efficiency within our organization. It also allowed more employees to be responsible for monitoring rather than having one associate having to stay on top of the monitoring of all of our servers at all times. Spreading the responsibility created a better balance across the team.

It is used to identify poor performing SQL servers and SQL processes.

Solved the SQL Server performance blame game.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is being used by the IT Infrastructure team to monitor servers and services that sit on an IBMi and Windows platforms. It allows us to monitor a number of critical services where we receive notifications when critical services go offline or if thresholds are met that will indicate a problem needs to be addressed. It is a critical tool we use in order to monitor, identify and prevent serious issues from occurring.

To have everything you need available from a single dashboard to give you a daily snapshot of the operation is a distinct advantage to any IT Department. The key is to establish the requirements of the company or departments [and] identify the key services that need to be up and running which will then lead to an easier implementation of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor which in itself is a complex but capable product.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is used to monitor and manage the information technology infrastructure of our organization. Therefore, it is actually installed as an agent on all server layers.

The biggest business problem it helps us is that it enables us to continuously run our system with the data coming from SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor.

As information technology employees, one of the biggest problems we face is that we have to manage the environment with the best parameters that are suitable for almost all the features of all the products we use and our own structure, except for best practices. We have to be able to use these programs very well and to be able to master the software or hardware updates that come to them. The responsibility that brings to IT professionals is really huge because it is necessary to know dozens of programs very well. The best part of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is that it allows us to monitor from only one screen and with ready templates, we can move quickly and focus on other tasks at hand without taking much time.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is currently used and administered in the IT department.
It is very useful to be able to detect any type of problem, from very small to [large] problems that can cause severity in any department of the entire company.

Being able to anticipate solving problems before the client reports or reflects their dissatisfaction with the service provided by the company. That is why it is important to have visibility and monitoring of the environments in order to have preventive and non-reactive alerts. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is ideal to achieve that

[SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor] is our go to Monitoring Solution, spanned across the entire company that might have any sort of monitoring needs.

It has improved up time and time to get back up when things go down, as [SolarWinds] is the first to alert on problems.

The SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is used to provide us up-to-date information on the performance of our applications hosted on virtual servers. It's most useful to give all users visibility to critical health monitoring where Linux may not necessarily be their strength. Having a single pane of glass to track health makes troubleshooting issues quick and easy!

Monitoring our entire environment from a single GUI is critical based on the number of applications we have running 24/7. The best part is that the SolarWinds SAM integrates with the existing ecosystem and connects in as a new module. Definitely a requirement for systems running several critical applications simultaneously.

We are leveraging SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to monitor all of our servers and networking equipment, as well as creating customized alerts that will notify the help desk team when things are less than ideal. We are using it across our entire department, but not necessarily the entire organization. The business problem it is solving is creating that single pane of glass that we can see green/yellow/red how our network/infrastructure is currently doing.

It's been great because we've been able to consolidate our monitoring tools into one, which is always nice. It does have a lot of features and built-in canned monitoring templates, but those can also always be customized to tailor it more towards your environment.

We use SolarWinds Server and application monitor to monitor our production servers, networking equipment, and critical applications across the entire organization. We are able to see details about specific applications, insight into response times, uptime, and server performance in near real time. We are able to see issues before our end users, and proactively communicate what we are doing to address the issues.

We only use SolarWinds to monitor server and applications on-premise. We have 95% of our servers virtualized, and our SolarWinds environment is physical. We do this to keep the monitoring outside the virtual environment and we can also dedicate more server resources to support the SolarWinds application. It allows us to get more granular results and query the server and application environment more regularly.

I was working with the IT department using SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to monitor our company's server environment and alerts. By using the tool, we are enabled to maintain at the level to be informed of the status of our servers at all times. It also enables us to monitor SQL and other apps.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is definitely a useful tool to monitor any change and any sign of outages. It has the ability to alert and raise a flag when there is any potential risk to our system. The tool is decent but I am concerning that the new generation of AI would replace it.