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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.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.solarwinds.com/products/pric…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • 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
In this video, the TrustRadius team is going to take a look at Solarwinds Server and Application Monitor, a powerful tool that can help you monitor your systems and identify issues early. We'll explore the overview, user sentiment, pricing, top features, and use-case, and help...
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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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Big, but effective

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 14, 2022
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Will Enestvedt
Unix Team Manager
Johnson & Wales University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 configuration management abilities. We're also working to integrate SNMP monitoring of data center power gear and PDUs, in order to get away from the vendor's proprietary client and to have our monitoring more standardized.

SolarWinds is a useful resource for IT Management

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 15, 2022
CI
Connie Inman
Senior IT Technologist II & Desktop Support Supervisor
University of Tennessee (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
6 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 computers. This helps us keep track of who has what device(s), when it was purchased, and if the user needs more room on their hard drive when it comes time to replace their computer.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 21, 2022
MH
Mike Hochstein
Senior Director, Infrastructure Architecture & Standards
Cision (Public Relations & Communications, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is part of my company's monitoring toolset which enhances the overall value proposition of our SolarWinds Orion investment. Being a global company, we currently utilize four Orion instances across multiple data centers and public cloud providers. SAM is currently monitoring on-prem and public cloud Windows and Linux-based applications in addition to providing latency metrics for RDS endpoints in AWS. SAM provides historic metrics in addition to being part of an overall toolset to troubleshoot issues in real-time.

Safe, robust and reliable.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 01, 2022
RS
Rafael Santos
Monitoring Specialist
Fleetcor (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 scope of action involves the communication, servers, services, and business layers. Through this monitoring, alarms, reports, integration with ITIL-based tools, and other items such as e-mail, SMS, and messaging applications are generated.
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