"SAM, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
March 10, 2016

"SAM, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

David Asher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

If you have used this product, SAM, you would know that it is a value add for a business and a great time saver for all. Setting up alerting for a down node, failed hardware, environmental fluctuation and many more options makes for peace of mind.

Our deployment is being used by many departments across most of our business.

SAM addresses the need to know. Knowing that your infrastructure is up and running and can be addressed at a moments' notice is peace of mind. The product pays for itself buy catching problems before they become a problem.
  • Alerting off of anything is done very well. You can make a simple alert or you can make them as complicated as you want.
  • It monitors port, and can alert on, throughput, response time, and packet loss just to name a few.
  • It gives a rolling list of events for the network.
  • I have nothing here. SolarWinds usually addresses anything needed.
  • SAM does have a positive impact on our business objectives. 24x7 is the name of the game. SAM helps up be proactive.
We have looked at others but I do not recall who it was. If you use SAM, you can forget the rest!
SolarWinds Server & Application (SAM) is not suitable for a very small mom and pop shop.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
10
Database monitoring
8
Threshold alerts
9
Predictive capabilities
9
Application performance management console
8
Collaboration tools
6
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
10
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
10
Virtualization monitoring
8
Server availability and performance monitoring
10
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
8
IT Asset Discovery
10