The only winner in real-time infrastructure monitoring for high-availability infrastructure.
August 31, 2018

The only winner in real-time infrastructure monitoring for high-availability infrastructure.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

The site my company and I manage uses SolarWinds Server and App Monitor to monitor all endpoints of our network. Primarily we use it for our virtual infrastructure but do use it for our physical infrastructure as well. Additional physical infrastructure monitoring is used for networking and APC systems. It's pretty much a one-stop-shop for monitoring as it gives us a great visual overview of our network. We handle a lot of highly sensitive and high availability products so utilizing this in our shop is extremely beneficial. Most of our IT department has, at minimum read-only but administrative access is used by other sections primarily server, VDI, cybersecurity, and networking.
  • Simply easy-to-glance-at graphical monitor.
  • Seamless integration with physical and virtual infrastructure.
  • Overall responsive management capabilities.
  • Installation had a few issues with stability. We were able to implement the build, but we weren't sure if it came from our equipment or not.
  • While the main graphical monitor was easy to use, the overall menu system wasn't as intuitive.
  • Significant reduction in lost man hours due to outages thanks to the ability to actively monitor the network.
  • Quicker forensic analysis of our network.
  • Overall reduced time to troubleshoot major problems with our infrastructure
There wasn't any major competition with SolarWinds, it checked off all the boxes for our infrastructure. We feel that the product you offered was far superior than any custom or off the shelf product that could possibly be compared to this.
I'd say in most scenarios, at least based on the size of the infrastructure, it's very well suited and scales easily. Especially during our expansion of our VDI infrastructure. Non-domain based infrastructure would be by best example.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
9
Database monitoring
9
Threshold alerts
7
Predictive capabilities
7
Application performance management console
9
Collaboration tools
8
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
Not Rated
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
Not Rated
Virtualization monitoring
9
Server availability and performance monitoring
9
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
8
IT Asset Discovery
7