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Works okay for Python but needs work
May 10, 2020

Works okay for Python but needs work

Greg Smethells | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Software Version

Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds AppOptics

It is used by both DevOps and by Tech Support. We use it to track down source code-level issues and to monitor response time and service level stats.
  • Distributed tracing.
  • Basic hardware monitoring.
  • Application transaction stats/details.
  • Support for celery in Python.
  • Overall better Python support.
  • Backwards compatibility.
  • Faster troubleshooting when it works.
  • Additional labor to keep up with documentation and backward compatibility breakages (in Python).
  • Grafana has been implemented to deal with the shortcomings of AppOptic's statistical abilities.
Any web app that needs distributed tracing and transaction monitoring is well suited for this product. Python support for Gunicorn is good. Python support for celery tasks has been broken for some time. Releases of the Python language binding are infrequent. There is no GitLab or GitHub project to submit tickets to which would help with issue tracking for users.

SolarWinds AppOptics Feature Ratings

Application Performance Management
7.8
Application monitoring
7
Database monitoring
9
Threshold alerts
9
Predictive capabilities
7
Application performance management console
8
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
8
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
7
Virtualization monitoring
8
Server availability and performance monitoring
8
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
7
IT Asset Discovery
Not Rated