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Best Server and Application Monitoring Tool
February 02, 2019

Best Server and Application Monitoring Tool

Sudhakar B | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is used to monitor the Compute (Servers) in our Datacenter. It monitors our critical servers where just ping check is inadequate. These applications help us monitor the server plus critical applications such as DNS, DHCP, AD. The advantage is that this application can monitor Linux, which can be complicated at times. This also enables us to view the status in a single pane. We use SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to monitor our multiple SQL databases.
  • Linux Monitoring -- Really helps with Linux server monitoring. There are inbuilt application monitoring templates for Apache Tomcat which we leverage.
  • Windows Monitoring -- Helps to monitor AD, DNS, DHCP, High CPU, memory utilization.
  • Single dashboard monitoring of all our servers.
  • The Server & Application Monitor has a dependency with another SolarWinds module, which is the Network Performance Monitor.
  • The dashboard can get too crowded if the number of servers is more. We monitor more than 500 servers in a single dashboard. Sometimes the hostnames overlap, causing confusion.
  • An agent is required to be added to all servers.
  • ROI is what makes the purchase of SolarWinds Server and Application Manager decision easier.
  • In critical environments where even a minute of outages results in huge impact to our clients, effective monitoring is what help to stay ahead of the issues. This has significantly improved our overall Uptime.
  • The renewal does not cost as much as new purchase which helps with the ROI after 2nd year.
Zabbix gives limited value. Even though the SAM is paid, we (Management) would agree to pay for it because of the value it brings in. The comparison was very positive towards SAM. It could be with Dashboards, In-built templates, Forecast, Monitoring, Alerts.

All these made us feel more confident with SAM.
This is the best server and application monitoring system. This is very robust as well. We use additional SolarWinds modules, such as Network Performance Monitor and Netflow Traffic Analyzer, which actually add more value to our monitoring system. We depend on this monitoring system to monitor our critical production servers on a day-to-day basis. This has helped us to keep the "Lights ON."

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application Performance Management
8.9
Application monitoring
9
Database monitoring
8
Threshold alerts
10
Predictive capabilities
8
Application performance management console
8
Collaboration tools
8
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
10
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
9
Virtualization monitoring
10
Server availability and performance monitoring
9
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
9
IT Asset Discovery
9