SolarWinds SAM to the rescue!
January 28, 2019

SolarWinds SAM to the rescue!

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

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We use SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) in IT. It's used to monitor all major servers to ensure minimal downtime for gaming and non-gaming applications, applications that are mission critical. We have SAM set for the entire department to monitor. It makes it pretty easy to put on a TV\Monitor in the office for everyone to see.
  • SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is very efficient at letting you know if there is a service that's not responding for some reason. It sends you an email notification along with a visual for monitoring.
  • SAM is very good at reporting when a service or server comes back up. So if you're doing a reboot or an update SAM will notify you when it's back up. SAM makes things easy to monitor.
  • SAM is very easy to setup and maintain.
  • The only thing I feel could be improved upon is the interface. Making some minor tweaks to be more appealing to the eye. But still, I love this product.
  • SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) has a very positive effect on saving you precious time at work for troubleshooting and keeping things in the know. The time it saves you to troubleshoot is worth its weight!
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is suited for monitoring mission-critical services and servers that must stay up and running. It helps that it's pretty painless to deploy and the help and support personnel are rock-stars.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
10
Database monitoring
Not Rated
Threshold alerts
10
Predictive capabilities
Not Rated
Application performance management console
9
Collaboration tools
Not Rated
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
10
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
10
Virtualization monitoring
9
Server availability and performance monitoring
10
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
10
IT Asset Discovery
Not Rated