AppOptics: A must-have for a startup
Updated December 15, 2022
AppOptics: A must-have for a startup

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds AppOptics
As an early-stage startup, we were looking for a solution that offered the following: Automated alerts Performance monitoring Request tracing Monitor 3rd party services AppOptics provides all of this functionality at a much lower price than its competitors such as NewRelic or Instana. We have been using them for over a year to monitor our application and AWS infrastructure. We have been very satisfied with their product. It has helped us identify various performance issues, resource bottlenecks, and issues with downstream services. In case of issues in our infrastructure or downstream services, it has helped us resolve the issue with low turnaround times. We have given access to this tool to our entire engineering team. Additionally, we have set up automated alerting and configured it to notify us through OpsGenie. UPDATE Dec-2022: It has been 2.5 years since the first review. We are still using AppOptics and we continue to reap the benefits that we have listed above.
- Request tracing with code profiling.
- Automated alerting on latency and response codes for each API.
- Low resource overhead while collecting data from our application servers.
- Highly performant dashboard that enables us to make progress rapidly.
- Very resilient. We have not seen a downtime in their service in the entire year that we have used them.
- Identify database and cache requests that are taking longer than expected
- Monitoring and alerting for downstream services can be improved significantly.
- They can make it easier and faster to setup alerts for the infrastructure and application.
- Faster Troubleshooting of issues in the infrastructure or our application, which helped us reduce downtime
- Helped us identify and resolve resource bottlenecks, which in turn, helped reduce our overall footprint and operational costs.
- It enables us to continuously monitor our application and alert us. This has allowed us to focus on product development without worrying about any underlying, hidden issues.
As an early-stage startup, we evaluated the different options on the following parameters: Functionality Monitoring overhead Cost Easy-to-use dashboard AppOptics had most of the features that we needed and offered their services at a reasonable price that made sense for us. While CloudWatch provided a lot of the required functionality, we needed to spend a lot of time configuring it as per our needs.
Do you think SolarWinds AppOptics delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with SolarWinds AppOptics's feature set?
Yes
Did SolarWinds AppOptics live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of SolarWinds AppOptics go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy SolarWinds AppOptics again?
Yes
SolarWinds AppOptics Feature Ratings
Using SolarWinds AppOptics
11 - All the users of our AppOptics portal are in the Engineering team. This is a mix of technical leaders, Devops engineers and software developers.
1 - After enabling AppOptics in our setup, we have not dedicated any significant amount of time to support our internal use of the tool. It has been extremely low maintenance for us.
- Continuous Monitoring
- Automated Alerting
- Application performance monitoring
- Reduce MTTD and MTTR for issues
- Leverage it for monitoring in multi-service and multi-cloud environments