Item: SolarWinds AppOptics
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use AppOptics to monitor performance, error rate, latency, database activity, and remote calls of our applications. We use this to monitor applications running on NodeJS (Express/HAPI), Java servlet, and services running on tomcat. It provides insight into the number of requests per second, errors coming in, and some information about JMX and database parameters. This helps us debug issues, slowness, and unexpected events with ease and speed.

Pros and Cons

Application Monitoring.
API monitoring.
Bifurcation of time consumed for result.
Remote calls monitoring.
Database query monitoring.

Dashboard.
Ease of use.
Missing parameters at times.

Return on Investment

Faster troubleshooting.
Time saving for engineers.
Automated recovery.

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

AppOptics was about 60% cheaper with most of the functionalities that we needed. Datadog had some advanced features which were not important to us, and hence we decided to go with AppOptics.

Key Insights

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

Likelihood to Recommend

AppOptics is good for small to medium-sized organizations with less than 150 servers or less than 40 services to monitor. It performs well for this use case where people need to get an overview of application performance, and 95%ile data is okay. Somewhere every data point and every record is critical; it should be avoided.

AppOptics - Monitoring tool for emerging organisations.

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds AppOptics