Good for front end monitoring tool - but still need improvement for back end root monitoring
September 07, 2018

Good for front end monitoring tool - but still need improvement for back end root monitoring

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

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We use SAM for our monitoring tool. We have applications across the company that we feel this product is a good tool for.
  • SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor does well by monitoring the key resources and applications.
  • However, I would suggest that SolarWinds to add a feature that allows you to enable/disable particular resources and not currently as a whole package.
  • SAM is good when we use it to monitor performances and negatively for not able to ping point down to a root cause
SAM is stable and not cheap
Again, inside the resources feature, you can't individually select the resource you want to monitor and don't want to monitor. There are duplicated resources within other packages, but you can't break apart.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
8
Database monitoring
10
Threshold alerts
8
Predictive capabilities
8
Application performance management console
8
Collaboration tools
8
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
7
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
7
Virtualization monitoring
7
Server availability and performance monitoring
8
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
8
IT Asset Discovery
7