SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review - Worth it.
August 03, 2018

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review - Worth it.

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

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is being used to actively monitor and appropriately alert on servers and applications in our organization. The robust feature set allowed for granular level detail of the servers and applications. This allowed us to create reports on server status as well as better plan for future requirements in capacity. There is also a good level of alerting available on CPU, Memory and disk space as well as application variables.
  • Granular level of detail about servers
  • Robust reporting
  • Alerting on CPU, Memory, Disk.
  • Getting set up took a bit of work.
  • Installing the agent on all of our servers for best availability of information
  • The application was expensive and support renewal equally so.
  • We were a SaaS so couldn't afford any downtime. The application was worth the money saved in SLAs
We did not use or evaluate other SAM tools. I have since used OpManager which is no where near as robust and easy to use as SolarWinds.
Infrastructure and application monitoring to best understand your current environment and plan for the future. The feature set is robust and allowed for a granular level of detail about your servers. The reporting was easily accessible. The alert generation allowed us to monitor CPU, Memory and Disk.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
8
Database monitoring
8
Threshold alerts
8
Predictive capabilities
8
Application performance management console
7
Collaboration tools
4
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
7
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
6
Virtualization monitoring
8
Server availability and performance monitoring
8
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
8
IT Asset Discovery
8