My Experience with SolarWinds SAM
September 05, 2018
My Experience with SolarWinds SAM
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
The SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is being used across the entire organization and it helps us monitor the hardware and application health and performance of our systems. We use this product to monitor our IT assets spread across multiple geographies.
- The product provides granular performance information on all components of a server, this helps us quickly troubleshoot any issues.
- The product has a light footprint and it provides a rich monitoring functionality without adversely impacting the utilization of the monitored asset.
- The product allows us to create application-wise dashboards and map dependencies. It also allows grouping of assets and provide role-based dashboards to various teams as required.
- Security scans keep throwing up multiple vulnerabilities on this application and the newer versions of the product do not always solve this issues. There is a definite scope for improvement here.
- The impact of the tool has been positive, in terms of proactive management of the infrastructure and also in terms of providing visibility on the availability and performance to our business stakeholders.
We preferred SAM over SCOM mainly for the ease of set-up and day to day administration of the tool, granularity of reporting and accuracy of monitoring (very low false positives)