Best tool to monitor performance, health, and availability for you infrastructure!
May 10, 2019

Best tool to monitor performance, health, and availability for you infrastructure!

Christian Lara | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We use SolarWinds to monitor our whole company infrastructure. We currently have over 200 nodes being monitored, around 300 components monitored with SAM, and around 500 components monitored with NPM. It regularly helps me identify performance issues as well as faults in both hardware and application levels.
  • Easy to use.
  • Super flexible and customizable as far as alerting and reporting.
  • A small footprint.
  • I cannot customize license levels.
  • It's expensive.
  • It takes support a long time to get back to you.
  • Managing hardware and software issues more effectively.
  • Reducing downtime and surprises when something goes bad.
  • It helps me triage issues and manage time and resources more effectively.
  • It helps me prevent issues before they are an issue.
  • It helps me see where resources are being underutilized and where they are being exhausted for better load balancing as far as a Virtual Environment.
  • DPA is awesome!
It's really good at monitoring availability, and the database performance monitor is excellent in identifying issues with queries, bad queries, long queries etc. You can monitor resources, like who's doing what and how long it's taking, etc. I can't find anything that applies to my setup that I can say is not appropriate. I have customized it quite uniquely to our environment.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
9
Database monitoring
10
Threshold alerts
9
Predictive capabilities
9
Application performance management console
9
Collaboration tools
7
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
5
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
7
Virtualization monitoring
10
Server availability and performance monitoring
10
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
10
IT Asset Discovery
10