SAM Review: good product but great when combined with others.
April 18, 2019
SAM Review: good product but great when combined with others.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
It is currently being used by the entire central organization to monitor all of our enterprise applications. Including, but not limited to, PeopleSoft, Exchange, Degree Works, and Blackboard. Also, with many others. It allows us to see events before they happen, outages before others report them.
- Implementation is easy. With a list of IPs/Hostname a mass add, gets you up and running.
- Ability to create custom dashboards help with users seeing their specific items.
- App insights help finding and monitoring on application specific items.
- Dashboard creation is a bit clunky, there are maybe 1 or 2 many clicks
- Hard to edit a template for just one application. For example, if I only want IIS monitoring for app A, I must go into the template to edit for those servers.
- So far its only been a year but we have been able to detect problems before they happen.
- We have to this date averted 7 major issues starting in August 2018