Item: SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Rating: 9
Author: Gary Lee

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At this point in our plan to move 100% of workloads to the public cloud we have many hybrid applications that exist partially in the new environment and the legacy virtualized one. SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability allows us to manage these applications effectively while they continue to exist in this state before we eventually move them entirely to the public cloud.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Application performance monitoring
Alerting on trouble spots
Identification of root causes

Cons

Can be complex to setup
Is strongest with network resources
Assumes a fairly large amount of base knowledge

Return on Investment

Helps us maintain application availability
Helps us shorten unplanned downtime
Provides these benefits at a fair price

Usability

- decent ease of use
- good training materials
- good documentation
- acceptable level of expected knowledge

Alternatives Considered

Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

- SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability is less expensive
- SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability does more right out of the box
- Splunk is more highly configurable

Key Insights

Do you think SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability's feature set?

Yes

Did SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability again?

Yes

Other Software Used

AppDynamics, Azure Monitor

Likelihood to Recommend

I would not use this product for an environment that was 100% public cloud or 100% virtualized as it works best for hybrid workloads like those we are currently running. In the future, when we reach our goal of 100% public clouds for our workloads, we may rethink our usage of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability.

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Another great SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability solution