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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

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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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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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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

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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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Solarwinds the Budget Friendly Solution for Everyones Enterprise

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 17, 2020
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
[SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor] is our go to Monitoring Solution, spanned across the entire company that might have any sort of monitoring needs.
Pros
  • Volume Monitoring is absolutely Essential
  • WPM synthetics are cheap and efficient
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
[SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor] does almost everything well. How many people log into their 90 web servers to check if the Volumes are almost full every day? Pretty much zero so this is something [SolarWinds] is essential for. Also [SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor] has so many features its hard not to use it for almost everything.

I am a new user with great power in his hands.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 17, 2020
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Mining & Metals Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is currently used to monitor the server and applications that are essential to the well being of our organization. Whenever we have a problem or an abnormality, we're alerted and we can take action more efficiently by knowing exactly where the problem is coming from.

It also gives us a quick overview of what's happening in the back-end of our organization.

We're also using it to monitor some special devices that we wouldn't be able to monitor efficiently. But SAM is really a great tool to help us monitor and take action accordingly to each situation.

Setting up SAM to monitor unorthodox application isn't the easiest thing to do but in the end of the day, if you can get it to work properly to monitor what you want, you'll be set to go and it will work like a charm.

Pros
  • The overview gives me essential information.
  • The Information has a lot of details.
  • We can easily watch the exchange status.
Cons
  • If it wasn't for the documentation and the support, some configurations wouldn't be functional or efficient.
  • You have to make a group to make the SAM module more efficient.
  • Without a group, it's easy to lose yourself in SAM configurations.
  • Unorthodox and homemade application are not easy to setup
Likelihood to Recommend
We have an internal data transfer application that is used and it can calls multiple side-application.
With all the application monitored, we know where there's a bottleneck when the end-user doesn't receive his data.

By having everything monitored in SAM, we know exactly where it goes wrong and where to address the issue.

SolarWinds SAM (Server & Application Monitor) - Catch issues before your Users do!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 13, 2019
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Mining & Metals Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is being used across our entire company, globally across 250 locations in 30+ countries. We use SAM to monitor server uptime, performance, and to gather alerts for potential capacity issues (disk space, memory, CPU utilization). Utilizing active monitoring has allowed us to prevent potentially catastrophic system failures before the system users were impacted.

We leverage the reporting capability to report on our SLA Uptime, based on un-planned outages, and have these reports scheduled on a weekly and monthly basis for executive reporting of our stability across our server and network platforms.
Pros
  • Uptime status monitoring: SAM monitors system uptime through polling (Ping) or through system traps being sent to the poller agents.
  • Various application level monitors: We are able to monitor performance of many or our critical applications, from web servers, SQL, AD, and Exchange, and the data gathered helps to ensure user experiences are maintained at a positive level.
Cons
  • Linux/Unix support is very limited. We have to set up custom agents and custom scripts to retrieve any usable data from our older systems, and each one needs to be customized to report back what we need. The effort that has gone into the Windows systems is amazing -- the Linux effort is very limited and has almost no automation ability.
  • Installation and configuration is very daunting. The upgrade processes have caused many outages and unexpected tickets to be opened for support. The upgrade/maintenance process needs to be cleaned up and updated.
Likelihood to Recommend
Monitoring Windows servers and applications (Microsoft software) has very good support and many custom/community developed monitors. Non-windows operating systems have many fewer built-in options for support, and require a much more manual process to gather usable data, in order to avoid multiple monitoring strategies.

One of the great strengths of the SolarWinds Platform is the community involvement. You can find many custom-developed functions that you can import -- but since they are community developed, there isn't the level of trust that the official approved extensions have.

Mission Critical, we can't live without Server and Application Manager.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 17, 2020
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
15 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SAM is used primarily for operations support, and is extended to datacenter and technical support teams. While we use some canned monitors, the bulk of our SAM components are custom written script monitors using Perl, PowerShell, VB, or TSQL. We monitor everything...
Pros
  • Flexibility with specific monitoring requirements by creating our own scripts to control output messaging, and monitor for statistics that are unique to our in-house written applications.
  • Out of the box support for common vendors' hardware MIBS or API to report on chassis hardware issues, etc.
  • Customization of the web portal provide specialized dashboards for our various NOC teams using Orion, as well as executive dashboards, alert boards, historical reporting, etc.
Cons
  • User roll granularity. While this has improved over the years, the user rights are not granular enough.
  • Profile based views. End users frequently want to modify their own views, but views are generally global. Under account rights, I would like to be able to allow an account to have a profile based set of views. It's also important to easily review a users specific profile views to check for resource abuse.
  • Better information on user activity, views usage, etc. Knowing what views are used the most or least would be helpful information when considering what works and what doesn't, what needs to be cleaned up, etc...
Likelihood to Recommend
SAM is both extremely easy to use out of the box, as it is customizable for advanced users and complex environments. The user community is an outstanding resource for users trying to take their monitoring to the next level using advanced scripts and customization. I still struggle with full app stack monitoring, and we lack visibility with some of our custom apps (Java), where I'm hoping to see some growth out of the AppOptics purchase.

SolarWinds Across the Enterprise

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
October 05, 2018
NT
Nathan Tennant
Senior Systems Engineer, Operational Designer
Southwire Company (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Currently it is deployed to monitor our IT infrastructure. We use it to monitor the network, servers, virtual infrastructure, services, UPS, workstations and printers. This monitoring is across the entire organization though other departments are not currently using or monitoring these resources. We are attempting to define customer pain points and proactively monitor for the causes of those pain-points. In addition we use SolarWinds to help us efficiently resolve issues in a re-active situation such as site outages or unplanned service outages.
Pros
  • Netflow information and configuration management of network devices works really well for us. As these two comprise two of the core products of SolarWinds Orion suite it's good that it does this
  • SAM (Application manager) Provides excellent insight into services and service states and is very customizable.
  • Support community is excellent (THWACK) as is the available free training from the SolarWinds Customer Portal. Which is good, you're going to need it due to the depth and complexity of the software suites.
Cons
  • SolarWinds Orion is not just one product. It's a bunch of cobbled together products gained from acquisitions. Because of that finding a standard way to manage devices is difficult, and understanding one product is no guarantee of understanding another.
  • The pane of glass that is Orion is very customizable. It is based on widgets but none of the widgets operate in a predictable way. There may be one that does what you want but you are going to have to find it and you will probably have to try 4 before you find one you like for what you are looking to do. A huge time-sync
  • The network-atlas software that lets you put your Orion objects in a visual layout is terrible. Right down to what you can set as defaults for fonts or labels and all the way to stability it is terrible.
Likelihood to Recommend
We have found it very useful for monitoring static devices, less useful for monitoring devices that are mobile or change often. So it's been really good for infrastructure devices, less so for end-users and end-user devices.
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