Server Application Monitor... Worth the money!
February 10, 2016

Server Application Monitor... Worth the money!

Kevin Le | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We use it currently to monitor Exchange, SharePoint as well as other third party applications to ensure they are up and running. We have legacy applications that do not recover by themselves when they crash. SAM helps us monitor them and restart them when needed. This cuts down on calls to the help desk that services are not working correctly.

Pros

  • Monitors Microsoft products extremely well
  • Updates to SAM and the Orion platform are very easy

Cons

  • Licensing is horrific, I don't really understand why Microsoft SQL monitor can consume X number of licenses. If should be a fixed cost.
  • Positive Impact. We are able to keep legacy applications up times higher.
Support is really good. Every time I call support, I always get someone that is extremely professional and efficient.
I believe every organization needs to monitor their applications on the network. I cannot find a reason not to have something like SAM or similar.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application Performance Management
6.2
Application monitoring
8
Database monitoring
8
Threshold alerts
8
Predictive capabilities
1
Application performance management console
1
Collaboration tools
Not Rated
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
7
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
7
Virtualization monitoring
8
Server availability and performance monitoring
8
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
Not Rated
IT Asset Discovery
Not Rated

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