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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Overview

What is SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor?

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.

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Big, but effective

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 14, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We monitor servers and network gear to track uptime, and to alert when certain resource metrics are reached on a system (e.g., low disk space). My team does not use configurat...
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Will Enestvedt
Manager - Information Technology
Unix Team Manager
Johnson & Wales University
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor4 years of experience

SolarWinds is a useful resource for IT Management

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 15, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use SolarWinds as our inventory management tool and it is an invaluable resource that allows us to keep track of all of the computers and the software installed on our comp...
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Connie Inman
Supervisor - Other
Senior IT Technologist II & Desktop Support Supervisor
University of Tennessee
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor6 years of experience

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 21, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is part of my company's monitoring toolset which enhances the overall value proposition of our SolarWinds Orion investment. B...
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Mike Hochstein
Director - Information Technology
Senior Director, Infrastructure Architecture & Standards
Cision
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor10 years of experience

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is good tool to monitor your applications and make calls via APIs.

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 6, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Little information about health and availability of applications. We need to better monitor our applications and handle applications in API format.
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Fabio Silva
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Network Engineer
Fexco
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor2 years of experience

Safe, robust and reliable.

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 1, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The tool is used to monitor the entire technology infrastructure allied with other vendors. Here it is useful to identify outages, failures, and performance degradation, the s...
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Rafael Santos
Administrator - Information Technology
Monitoring Specialist
Fleetcor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor1 year of experience
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What is SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor?

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

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.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Features

  • Supported: Single Web interface to monitor multi-vendor applications and server infrastructure.
  • Supported: Out-of-the-box monitoring templates for 200+ enterprise applications.
  • Supported: Easily extend monitoring to virtually any custom or home-grown applications.
  • Supported: Gain contextual visibility of relationships and dependencies between applications and physical and virtual servers.
  • Supported: Monitor server hardware health, perform capacity forecasting, and manage asset inventory. Remediate server issues remotely with built-in management actions.
  • Supported: Monitor VMware and Hyper-V environments to identify problems impacting application performance.
  • Supported: Centrally manage IT asset inventory and keep track of server hardware and software information.
  • Supported: Leverage the wealth of built-in alerts and reports, and easily customize them as needed.
  • Supported: SAM is an agentless monitoring software. Optional agent installation extends monitoring to the cloud.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Screenshots

Screenshot of Multi-vendor application performance monitoringScreenshot of Multi-vendor server monitoringScreenshot of Application dependency mapping with AppStackâ„¢ dashboardScreenshot of Microsoft Exchange performance monitoring with AppInsightâ„¢ templateScreenshot of Microsoft IIS performance monitoring with AppInsightâ„¢ templateScreenshot of Server hardware health monitoringScreenshot of Built-in virtualization monitoring for VMware and Hyper-V environmentsScreenshot of Easily extend monitoring to any custom or home-grown application

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Videos

An introduction to and a brief overview of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish

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Frequently Asked Questions

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.

Progress WhatsUp Gold, Nagios Core, and Tivoli Monitoring (legacy) are common alternatives for SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor.

Reviewers rate Server availability and performance monitoring highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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SolarWinds: Does the job, comes with a learning curve.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 11, 2020
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Law Enforcement Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great to monitor environments of all sizes (provided you have the licensing for all of the nodes you would like to add). I think it's a little less appropriate if you're not a huge IT shop. There are probably other, cheaper, better-suited products out there at that point.

Quick Review of SolarWinds SAM

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 27, 2019
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently have SAM version xxx. We currently use it to monitor our 50 Windows servers, 3 Linux servers, VMware ESXi hosts, IBM fiber switch, HP network equipment and IBM servers for uptime, services, and resources. We also use SAM to monitoring some application on the Windows servers. Those applications are SQL and IIS. We use this product for all of our infrastructures. We really like how you can make custom alerts. E.G. I can make an alert to warn me a server is running a full load for 20mins. Then, I would check it out to see why. The main reason we bought this product is to help users with alerts on the server and application level. E.G. if an IIS website goes down we get an alert.
Pros
  • You can create custom alerts for basically anything.
  • The dashboard has a clean look. Easy for a nontechnical person to understand.
  • The application is very stable. I had no issues with it so far.
  • The product gets new features once or twice a year, which is nice.
  • The support is very good.
Cons
  • A bit of a learning curve to figure out how to use it the way you want it. Creating custom alerts can be complicated.
  • The software requires to be on the latest SQL server (2019 or 2016). We currently use 2012 so I can not upgrade SAM to the latest version.
  • I get some false positive alerts sometimes. It could be my environment but it would be nice for SAM to gather some log data when that alert has happened so it would be easier to troubleshoot.
Likelihood to Recommend
SAM is good for uptime, services and application monitoring on Windows and Linux VMs. It can also monitor uptime and resources for networking, storage, ESXi hosts and so on. Its a good all in one package for an IT person looking for a complete monitoring solution for your infrastructure. The negative thing is it may take a while to set it up to the way you like it due to the learning curve.

Tools for proactive maintenance rather than reactive maintenance

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 22, 2019
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
11 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is used to monitor the health of servers and networks across the organization. Proactive maintenance rather than reactive maintenance is achieved through active monitoring of nodes and networks. Proactive maintenance requires advance knowledge of the servers and networks through active monitoring.
Pros
  • Real time monitoring
  • Health of servers
  • Health of network
Cons
  • Ease of use
  • Ease of other user management
  • Initial learning curve
Likelihood to Recommend
Active online monitoring by keeping up with the status of your servers and watching the network traffic generated by the applications running on them. Critical network applications such as DHCP, Active Directory, DNS functions, etc., can be monitored in real time. Extensive WAN activity monitoring capabilities of this system make it particularly useful to large businesses with complicated, distributed IT operations.

A true Solarwinds SAM review.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 10, 2016
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Solarwinds SAM is a great tool for network monitoring. It allows you to monitor and analyze server performance as well as application performance from sql server to iis. Solarwinds supports a very wide variety of applications, and tools. For example, I was looking to tie our backup system into solarwinds, and I found the plugins for it in solarwinds to allow me to be notified if there are any issues. Solarwinds has helped me immensely in troubleshooting and alerts when problems occur.

On a side note, there is a huge learning curve to it's use. It takes quite a while to configure, and use it to its full potential. Though once it is working properly, it will not fail.
Pros
  • Solarwinds is great at its wide variety of support for different vendor software and applications.
  • Solarwinds is great for its customizations.
  • Solarwinds is great for being able to monitor almost anything you need it to in a network.
Cons
  • There is a learning curve to using solarwinds.
  • Updates tend to break the logic for all alerts.
  • It can be difficult to configure, though the support from solarwinds is awesome.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very suited for monitoring servers and their applications. It is not suitable for monitoring vpn tunnels.

Review of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 25, 2022
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have around 200 servers in our network (physical and virtual) and we needed a way to monitor these for any issues. The answer to this problem was SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor which allows us to monitor applications for errors. It also provides us metrics, such as top processes which is very useful.
Pros
  • Monitor Azure Cloud Severs- We use SolarWinds SAM to monitor Active Directory and DNS on Several DCs published on Azure Cloud.
  • Monitor Hyper V and VMware - SolarWinds SAM monitors applications on both Hyper V and VMware, while also monitoring the physical host machines.
  • It also helps us monitor Warranty expiration for physical servers.
Cons
  • Server Warranty Information: We have had issues where the expiration date was wrong.
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is well suited for monitoring virtual machines. We have multiple VMs hosted between HyperV, VMware, and Azure. SolarWinds SAM brings the info from all these systems to one place so it simplifies the monitoring process. From this one page, we can view the top applications by CPU, response times, and memory among other things. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is used to track warranty expiration, but I would advise double-checking the dates when adding the devices to ensure that they are correct
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