SAM Review
March 18, 2016

SAM Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Our organization is using SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) to keep track of our SQL Server/processes to see who and what is using the most data.
  • Manages SQL Processes
  • Manages server health/performance
  • Helps to minimize downtime for applications
  • Alerts for application errors
  • I think it could stand to be easier to configure. Currently it seems you need to do quite a bit of research to set it up.
  • SAM has helped us troubleshoot our SQL server database processes faster.
I haven't tried any other products. We chose Solarwinds based off reputation and online reviews.
It is well suited in any server environment. I could see where it would be less useful in a smaller production environment.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

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