My Experience with SolarWinds SAM
September 05, 2018

My Experience with SolarWinds SAM

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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)
  • The product is easy to set up, requires minimal training, and combines well with other SolarWinds products we use.
  • The community support is an additional factor that helps us use the product better.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
8
Database monitoring
Not Rated
Threshold alerts
9
Predictive capabilities
Not Rated
Application performance management console
Not Rated
Collaboration tools
Not Rated
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
9
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
Not Rated