Good Detailed Infrastructure Monitor Tool
October 05, 2018
Good Detailed Infrastructure Monitor Tool
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
We currently use SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to monitor our hosted application servers in our third party cloud environment. It is currently only being used by our Technical Services department. It address our need to have constant data on our application servers to ensure they are running smoothly.
- SAM has very detailed monitoring tools designed to work out of the box for SQL server to quickly set up alerts for SQL servers.
- SAM has great alerts that are customizable so you can keep up to date on the information that you need.
- The reports in SAM are great way to share the status and history of your environment with stakeholders.
- Initially SAM can automatically find 'nodes' to monitor, and some of the default alerts can be overwhelming until you are able to dig through the options to fine tune the alerts to usable thresholds.
- The interface, while displaying lots of information, has a pretty steep learning curve to figuring out.
- The licencing is based off of a 'node' and it is a little confusing at what constitutes a node.
- I do not have access to the numbers for this product.
I have not evaluated other similar products.