SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review
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Popular Features
View all 12 featuresServer availability and performance monitoring (272)
9.5
95%
Threshold alerts (273)
9.2
92%
Application monitoring (268)
9.1
91%
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications (258)
8.4
84%
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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.
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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 Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | English |
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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.
What are SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor's top competitors?
Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold), Nagios Core, and IBM Tivoli Monitoring are common alternatives for SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor.
What is SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor's best feature?
Reviewers rate Server availability and performance monitoring highest, with a score of 9.5.
Who uses SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor?
The most common users of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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April 21, 2022
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review
- Datadog, IDERA Precise for Applications, Prometheus, AppDynamics and Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold)
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is able to provide 90% of the functionality my business requires. SolarWinds is able to scale out functionality by purchasing additional modules to meet the individual needs of its customers. While this functionality provides flexibility to build out a robust platform, it can quickly turn into purchasing more and more add-ons which can begin to provide a decreasing amount of value. Companies with requirements for more detailed APM metrics may find SolarWinds comes up short for their use case scenarios.
February 06, 2022
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is good tool to monitor your applications and make calls via APIs.
We choose SAM instead of Site 24x7 because of the facility to handle API calls. Site 24x7 doesn't have a friendly dashboard as SAM has.
February 01, 2022
Safe, robust and reliable.
- SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Zabbix, Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and ThousandEyes
SolarWinds is cost-effective, we have a great solution provider that helps us with tool integrations and maintenance, the integration capability and extensive documentation also help a lot in the ability to use it in various monitoring models and scripts.
January 27, 2022
Server and Application Monitoring made easy
We also evaluated Nagios Core as a free alternative but being free it could not be trusted to be secure, and it was very difficult to add and manage devices.
January 26, 2022
Solarwinds SAM - Excellent infrastructure monitoring solution
Solarwinds Server & Application Monitor is a great comprehensive monitoring solution. It covers all aspects of monitoring your infrastructure via a modular approach. While other applications can be slightly better at asset management or monitoring one specific application or application suite, Solarwinds Server & Application Monitor does a great job across the board while being extremely flexible and customizable
January 25, 2022
Review of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
PRGT Network Monitor seems to be very good, initially, but, in our experience, when we reached close to 100 devices, the system kept crashing and behaving erratic. Prometheus was missing many features and required some CLI scripting and the GUI was years behind SolarWinds. The learning curve was higher whereas SolarWinds Nagios Core was more lightweight, but required scripting for everything that we wanted to add and monitor. It was not feasible for many servers and the learning curve was very high compared to SolarWinds.
January 19, 2022
Robust Server and Application Monitoring Solution
SolarWinds Pingdom and AppOptics [are] full-fledged Application Performance Management Tools. [SolarWinds] SAM provides Server and Application Monitoring using [SolarWinds] SAM templates, [but] it does miss out on APM capabilities which other APM solutions offer.
January 19, 2022
My Tool for My IT Environment
In comparison to Spiceworks [Connectivity Dashboard,] SolarWinds [has] way [more] features and [an] easy-to-use system. ManageEngine [Application Control Plus] also provides a good look [at the] dashboard but needs a lot more enhancements when it comes to real-time monitoring. PRTG [Network Monitor] could be a good competitor for Solarwinds [Server and Application Monitor] and can be rated almost the same. [The] support level of SolarWinds [maintains the] upper hand when the products [are] compared.
January 19, 2022
Great product for use in Education
This is the best look into our system as compared to others. It also allows much more in-depth looks into our system.
January 19, 2022
Best monitoring product for IT
Very user friendly console, very powerful products, ease configuration
January 19, 2022
Great App Services Monitoring Tool
Went straight to SAM as already NPM users
January 19, 2022
Server and Application Monitor Product Review
January 19, 2022
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) lets me know the status of my environment at a glance.
In the past, we had tested other monitoring products yet none compared to the features that one fines in Server & Application Monitor (SAM).
January 19, 2022
SAM I AM
I have used WhatsUp, Nagios, and Zabbix. Very similar in ease of use to WhatsUp, but missing some features of the Zabbix and Nagios XI on the nix side of the house.
January 19, 2022
Solarwinds Review
We haven't really looked at any competitors. We've been happy Solarwinds customers for 5+ years and continue to leverage this tool today.
January 18, 2022
great product - I recommend
because of the easy and fast implementation, and easy administration
January 18, 2022
SolarWinds Server and App support - Solid solution for the money
I have only used SolarWinds
January 18, 2022
SW Review :)
- System Center Operations Manager, AlertBot Website Monitoring and Check Point IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)
Despite the fact that they have compatible minor characteristics, the organization has chosen SolarWinds for being the most complete tool and compatibility with customized tools in the portfolio.
April 16, 2021
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review
I can safely say SolarWinds comes up on top versus the individual products we used in the past. SolarWinds was selected because of its ease of use, its visual layout which allows you to easily and quickly browse through the information its currently providing for a monitored object, as well as how it integrates seamlessly between different systems and hardware, all from a single portal.
As a result, we have saved time and money, as it has given us a clear picture of our environment from a single portal which meant we no longer had any black spots or areas of our environment which had poor visibility.
Event Sentry was the previous product we relied on for monitoring and alerts. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor simply has more features, is more comprehensive, has a better use interface, [and] has better support and knowledge base behind it while not being cost prohibitive for an enterprise product.
April 13, 2021
A great solution for your company
- SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) and SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (npm)
Being from the same company it is possible all these modules are compatible with each other
April 10, 2021
Monitor Expert
January 25, 2021
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review
It was already purchased for me to use.
December 28, 2020
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review
Value for money is high in terms of SolarWinds.
It gives very good insights into Infra monitoring.
It gives very good insights into Infra monitoring.