Item: SolarWinds AppOptics
Rating: 10
Author: Dave Costantino

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SolarWinds AppOptics to monitor infrastructure running in our production SaaS environment running on AWS. It is used by the entire engineering team. If a system fails or is exhibiting performance problems, we are alerted nearly instantly and can respond before our customers even notice there is an issue.

Pros and Cons

Simple installation and configuration
Easy to use UI
Good value
Many integrations with third-party software

Better cluster support: identify and group all related hosts automatically based on name

Return on Investment

Saves time by simplifying troubleshooting
Avoids downtime through monitoring and alerting

Alternatives Considered

New Relic and Datadog

We felt the competitors were both more expensive and more difficult to configure and deploy. We selected SolarWinds AppOptics because it provided better value both in terms of cost and user experience.

Other Software Used

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds AppOptics is well suited for monitoring an environment with a diverse set of infrastructure, due to its wide variety of integrations supporting third party software and services. It is especially suitable for cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) where infrastructure is more dynamic in nature.

Good value for cloud infrastructure monitoring!

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds AppOptics