Great tool for application monitoring
May 15, 2020
Great tool for application monitoring
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds AppOptics
SolarWinds AppOptics is being used to help engineers debug issues within the entire application stack, from the API call all the way down to the actual database. It's a very powerful tool to isolate latency and reliability issues that you can't typically find in logs or metrics, unless you make those very granular.
- Full application stack trace
- Measuring latency
- Providing historical map of calls
- It's confusing sometimes to dig into a trace, like certain levels don't have much info. AppOptics just says this level occupies 95% of the call time.
- It would be nice to have AppOptics identify if the root cause of an issue was caused by a dependency, e.g. another service it calls. It would be great to chain them together.
- Not very intuitive, if you don't know what you're doing or know what to look for.
- It helps debug an application issue much faster than using logs.
- Provides a decent overview of the stack you're using for an integrated service
- Requires investment to integrate it with your software.
SolarWinds AppOptics serves a specific use case for us--diving down on the application layer to identify root causes of latency. It does not offer the same use case as SignalFx, which offers metrics for the overall service and integration for custom metrics. AppOptics also does not keep logs of your service or enable searches on them like Kibana. It serves a different use case than the products listed above.