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December 23, 2020
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).
- GUI
- Monitoring Method Flexibility
- Great Out of the Box monitoring templates
- Ability to write own script
- All infra in one view
- Cloud Services monitoring out of the box
- Transactions monitoring
- application dependencies can be improved further
- reduce dependency on agent
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
December 11, 2020
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.
- Application Monitoring
- Easy of Use
- Versatile
- Could use more in-depth functions with APIs
- There are more options for Windows than Linux/Unix
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.
December 09, 2020
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.
- Server metrics monitoring
- Application metrics monitoring
- No transaction monitoring
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.
November 21, 2020
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.
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps monitor the status or some of our most important applications. It has the capability of letting us know when an application goes down which helps us fix the issue faster.
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps monitor the resources on servers. By knowing the key components of the server such as CPU, RAM, and storage, we can forecast whether we need to increase or decrease resources on any server.
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps us by sending real time alerts when issues occur related to servers that we are monitoring.
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor has been extremely helpful for our organization. I can't think of anything to improve on.
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.
December 28, 2020
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor module is used across our entire infrastructure. It gives visibility into a lot of data and issues across the organization.
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor was able to give info on certs that are going to expire, which helped us renew before they caused an outage.
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor module gave us insights into resource utilization for multiple servers due to which the debugging and fixing of issues was very easy.
- Alerting is broken for us. When we asked about it, we were told it is a bug and to upgrade our SolarWinds. It is a very huge upgrade. We didn't even get a workaround.
- Support is sometimes very slow.
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.
December 13, 2020
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.
- Ease of use, simple and easy to set-up and issue.
- Priced right for our organization.
- Having so many modules, can take some doing to understand what you need or want.
- Additional mobile app/device monitoring.
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.
December 11, 2020
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).
- AppInsight for Exchange gives us stats on DB sizes, mailbox sizes, errors, ETC.
- Email alerts let people in our organization who don't normally log into Solarwinds, get notified of any possible problems
- Historical reporting lets us see trends over time for CPU, memory, repsonse times, disk space, ETC.
- I, personally, had a hard time figuring out how to add AppInsight for Exchange and had a tough time finding any documentation on it. When I figured it out, it was easy, but took me quite a while (and numerous attempts) to get there.
- The new web reporting is difficult to use. In the end, I love how the reports look, but i have to spend a lot of time to get there.
- We get a lot of alerts that we aren't sure what they really mean. A better explanation of why an alert occurred or what it means could be useful in finding the root cause.
December 11, 2020
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!
- Monitor website downtimes.
- Monitor apps downtimes.
- Please provide integration via Cloudflare.
- Extend trial periods for startups.
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.
December 09, 2020
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.
- Very easy to set-up.
- Very easy to administer.
- Not a steep learning curve to get to know the product.
- Creating custom alerts for multiple objects can be cumbersome.
- Adding a user account with a password to use for scanning purposes requires a lot of steps.
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.
December 09, 2020
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.
- Quickly identify potential issues with applications and their root causes.
- Server resource usage can be kept on top of, with additional resources, added before its needed.
- Its simple and intuitive to use.
- Easy to drill down to get the detail behind the headline information.
- Could have more application insights.
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.
- Ability to monitor and graph specific components of servers and applications.
- A various amount of already built templates ready for deployment.
- Fast and easy set up with subnet scans.
- There is no option out of the box for SAM to show you the process that is consuming the most CPU. To be able to do this you need to ensure that the process/service is actually selected for monitoring (this is a problem as we just want to know frequently the top 5 processes consuming the highest CPU without monitoring them all).
- We find the interface a bit slow sometimes (yet, with this being said, we are currently rebuilding to ensure everything is set up right, as we are not sure if it is an environment or application issue).
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.
November 19, 2020
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.
- Identifying inefficiencies in data serving environments
- Giving access to multiple services and the behind-the-scenes operations
- Showing a view into backend operations on a production system
- The environment took some effort to set up
- Getting familiar with all of the inner workings and settings is time consuming
- Better response time from support techs when you are needing assistance with the installation
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.
October 23, 2020
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.
- Provides specific data on how network is performing.
- Allows for easier management of large amounts of servers.
- Creates a more organized way of reporting out on data.
- Training could have been better so more employees know how to correctly use the system.
- Better price point would allow a company to use more product features.
- Ability to add more custom fields.
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.
January 25, 2021
It is used to identify poor performing SQL servers and SQL processes.
- High wait time.
- Long running queries.
- Poorly designed SQL tables and code
- It is not simple to navigate.
- The user interface takes a while to get familiar with.
Solved the SQL Server performance blame game.
- Online training
December 16, 2020
[SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor] is our go to Monitoring Solution, spanned across the entire company that might have any sort of monitoring needs.
- Volume Monitoring is absolutely Essential
- WPM synthetics are cheap and efficient
- Design is Clunky
- Features are burried
- Regular Users do not like it
- Need to spend a lot of time in it to really understand anything going on.
It has improved up time and time to get back up when things go down, as [SolarWinds] is the first to alert on problems.
December 11, 2020
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.
- Alerting- You have the ability to alert on many different things and get pretty granular.
- Dashboard-You can create customized dashboards for different people/groups that can see what they need to see.
- Monitoring- You can also get pretty granular as far as what you want to see, and if they don't have something built-in, things can always be added.
- Some things are kind of hard to find unless you know exactly what you're looking for and where to find it.
- It's a lot to manage for just one or two people.
- Some of the graphs/charts can't be customized in all the ways we want to.
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.
December 11, 2020
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.
- Gives me the information I need in a dashboard web interface that is easy to read and share with non-IT people.
- It's easy to setup and add new devices to SolarWinds.
- The application is easy to administer and easily installed on virtual servers.
- Needs to be a little easier to set up and manage alerts.
- Mobile viewing could be improved upon
- make it easier to drill down into TCPIP packets from top level views
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.
- Quick insights.
- Continuous monitoring.
- Alerts.
- No auto-tuning.
- A bit clunky.
- Low flow visibility.
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.
November 11, 2020
We use SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor to closely monitor all of our important infrastructure and interfaces across our organization. It allows us real time alerts if any mission-critical applications or hardware develop problems. This often allows us to rectify those issues before they potentially impact users.
- Physical port monitoring
- Monitoring of resources during peak usage
- Monitoring servers for outages
- Finding root cause sometimes requires drilling into a few things with added clicks.
The dashboard is one of the first things we check every day and allows us, at a glance, to quickly make sure everything is up and running as it should. From our security cameras, to our servers (both physical and virtual) to our website and SQL databases. This allows us to often resolve issues before any customer facing impact is seen.
We use SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor across our entire organization in order to monitor in real-time the status of various aspects of our application and server environment. We use it to keep track of our production servers, services, and applications in order to provide world-class information technology service to our customers (other company employees).
- Critical Services Monitoring
- General Server Health
- Current Server Status
- Print Queue Monitoring
This single platform has been invaluable to our organization for monitoring our environment. We are currently monitoring our in-house servers, services, and applications. We have found it difficult to monitor our cloud applications due to a lack of access to the appropriate services and information on the part of our third-party vendors.
December 08, 2020
It is being used by the whole company. It helps us monitor any issues that arise. It helps us in trouble shooting and saves us a lot of time. I would strongly recommend SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor for any IT needs. Their support is also great they will spend time in resolving your issue.
- Drills down to source
- Notification of issues
- Easy management
- Easier navigation
The IT department uses SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to monitor our entire server environment, both physical and virtual. We are mainly a Windows shop and do additional monitoring of Active Directory, SQL, Citrix and custom apps or specific services we are looking to monitor. It keeps track of server up/downs, memory/CPU and application outages.
- Server health, using insight through WMI for what Microsoft is seeing from within the box.
- Monitoring services/apps through AppInsight and being able to add specific services not included or for other applications.
- Sometimes and easy button would be nice to simplify the views and data collected.
- Sales calls are persistent for anyone who has any involvement, which is just plain annoying.
Once you have it dialed in and have everything you want it is great to monitor the different pieces of our environment. It's easy to log in and see what systems are critical and what has alerts. We use it heavily to send out an e-mail when there is an issue. The thresholds are easily configured to add overhead if needed for storage or CPU/memory.
July 17, 2020
We the application monitor to both keep track of and monitor the nodes on our network. It not only allows us to pinpoint areas of failure, but is a thorough system to documents IP addresses, MAC addresses, and SMTP devices such as networked cameras. The alert system in SolarWinds is probably the most useful tool - we have setup intricate monitors and alerts to correctly alert the right department at the right time. The versatility of the program allows us to monitor everything from servers, to switches, to specific processes running on VM's hundreds of miles away.
- Versatility: The program allows for monitoring of almost any system, simple or complex and allows for intricately programmed alerts based on each monitor.
- Ease of use: Type in the URL, and you are greeted with a fully customizable dashboard with any and all of the pertinent features to your workflow.
- Modular: The program itself is very powerful, but the ability to add or remove features based on need is exceptional compared to competitors.
- Help links & additional tool-tips. Having thorough and easy to understand instructions is the most important part of software this comprehensive and it would be great to include direct links to wiki pages.
- Monitor/Alert templates. The program could use more and simpler alerts and monitors.
Without SolarWinds, our downtime would double if not triple. SolarWinds not only alerts us of issues immediately, but it does so very effectively by only alerting you of major issues and only alerting the right people. Its ability to not only watch locally hosted devices but also off-site and cloud devices make it a must-have for any large network.
July 14, 2020
Our environment is very distributed throughout the United States. SAM gives me good insight to what's happening in our various data centers and local sites, in addition to the valuable information that I am getting from NPM about the nodes themselves, resource usage and other metrics. Thanks to the SAM alerts and App Insight I am able to better tune the applications that we are monitoring (AD/SQL mostly). It has exposed some misconfigurations on our SQL servers and lack of resources on some servers. In addition to identifying servers that needed more resources to be allocated we identified some nodes that were over provisioned allowing us to reclaim processors, memory and storage.
If I were to offer a criticism it would be that between NPM, SAM and other SolarWinds monitors that are part of the suite there can be an overwhelming amount of data. It isn't trivial to tweak what you are monitoring and getting alerts for. Depending on the size of the environment don't be surprised if it takes a lot of resources (human time) to get it setup and working to suit you. It will work doing a next, next install but you can end up getting overwhelmed by data you might not care about.
- SAM and App Insight are handy to look at the whole environment. When looking at a node I can see how that fits into the whole enterprise. If a issue is reported I can see that there might be some environmental issue at the root of the problem and not necessarily the server that is being reported. For instance the SQL server is fine but a switch upstream from that server is having issue or there is a internet circuit down. This saves a lot of troubleshooting time.
- When you see monitors that are out of tolerance there are immediate resources to help make sense of the reported issue. Not just that something is out of sorts but why.
- The metrics that are collected simplifies the process of identifying trends and the predictability monitors do a good job of letting you know that not only are resources are becoming tight on a node but a estimate when they will become critical. This give you that chance to plan for the growth instead if a reaction to some critical event.
- I have used both WhatsUp Gold and SolarWinds. One item that I think WhatsUp does particularly well is customizing the user interface for each user. Customizing the interface in SolarWinds is cumbersome. A change to a page layout by one user affects all users that use that page. The security is very granular and it can take some work to get what you need. There is nothing ad hoc about it. But this is more of a complaint about the whole Orion interface that displays the SAM data in addition to data from all the other modules.
- I would also like to see some improvements in node configuration, I would like for it to be easier to manage nodes as groups. You can groups nodes together for monitoring purposes but there isn't an obvious way to manage them as a group for instance add/remove monitors and pollers. I would like to see a feature to add a server to a group and it automatically gets a predefined set of pollers and monitors assigned.
- The new modern Dashboard should have shipped with more canned items, a fair representation from the standard legacy offerings. At a minimum the newest SAM release should have included at AppInsight standard items. The Dynamic Designer is difficult to use because no example of whats returned for a is provided. Without an intimate knowledge of the schema its cumbersome.
In most regards I'm a fan of the product and mostly because it gets me that single pane of glass. But it doesn't come easy. It takes some work and cooperation from all the teams especially in a larger environment to get everything sorted. If you take the time to create custom views you can make some functional application specific dashboards. Being able to tie in the heath of our Cloud products side by side with our on-prem servers. Application owner get useful dashboards regardless of where the assets sit in the world.
July 14, 2020
We use SolarWinds SAM for monitor physical servers for part of our virtual environments and core network elements. We started to use SAM, because we needed to give visibility to the NOC about alerts and made them proactive to avoid a system failure. We create different alerts in order the notify when some abnormal behavior is happening so they can do the work of Tier1 without problem. After a couple of weeks using SAM we realized that we can exploit other functionalities like forecasting, reporting and application monitor. We actually use SolarWinds to create reports and reporting weekly the health of our infrastructure.
- Forecasting server behaviors
- Historical performance reports
- Correlation of historical data
- Easy implementation
- Go community support and online information available for users
- Reporting generation when you need to create from zero a report
- Forecasting server behvior is not to easy to set up
- Setting up alerts and baselines
After the implementation and all almost all the servers to SolarWinds, now we can see the big picture of how our infrastructure health is. The complication in the beginning was that we started just used the SNMTP and not the agents. After a couple of days the information that we got from SNMTP was not complete so we decided to install the agents in the critical and the new servers. So now we have more realistic and detailed information, that helps the company a lot to understand how the platforms are working, and understand when a failure happens.
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What is SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor?
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities for IT pros enabling them to diagnose and troubleshoot issues faster. The vendor’s value proposition is that this solution prevents slow applications and downtime from impacting end-users and business services. Users can use this tool to pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack.
The vendor says SolarWinds SAM is affordable, easy to deploy, use and customize. Users can automatically discover their systems environment and start monitoring in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.
SAM is built on SolarWinds Orion® platform enabling native integration with Network Performance Monitor and other IT management software from SolarWinds.
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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Integrations
Microsoft System Center, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN), SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM), SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM), SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Competitors
Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold), Nagios Core, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Microsoft System Center, DX Application Performance Management (formerly CA APM), SiteScope (formerly HP SiteScope), ManageEngine Applications Manager
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
- Does not have featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?No
- Entry-level set up fee?No
SAM pricing starts at $2,995.
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Support Options
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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems: | Windows |
| Mobile Application: | No |
| Supported Languages: | English |