Great for a lean IT Team!
May 15, 2019

Great for a lean IT Team!

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

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We are using it across the organization to manage both our physical and virtual environments. It helps us identify which servers need additional resources or are performing below are established benchmarks.
  • Within the VM environment, we are able to highlight when resources are becoming obsolete and we can reallocate the physical resources to the virtual environment.
  • It provides metrics to see which applications are being accessed and by whom to provide a better ROI picture as well as internal billing.
  • SolarWinds as a whole can still be a resource hog so getting it to operate the way we wanted took some trial and error.
I didn't see the applications that we have tested (Manage Engine Op Engine) and its mostly comes down to cost and projected ROI.
If you are running a lean IT department this application can help monitor your organizations entire server environment from a single platform.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
8
Database monitoring
7
Threshold alerts
9
Predictive capabilities
9
Application performance management console
8
Collaboration tools
6
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
5
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
6
Virtualization monitoring
8
Server availability and performance monitoring
7
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
7
IT Asset Discovery
4