SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review
November 04, 2019

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We've used SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor since 2014. It was the first project I proposed. I explained to the chief financial officer that visibility was the key to understanding your IT infrastructure. Once you have visibility of your IT infrastructure, you can prevent problems from happening, reduce your resolution time, pinpoint the root cause of problems and plan for capacity management. We configured timely alerts to update us on certain incidents and issues; if the problem persisted, somebody needed to take action on it. When critical incidents happened, we needed to do a postmortem and report the findings accordingly. The remediation action needed to be carried out based on the findings from SolarWinds. Lastly, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor can perform capacity management, which aids in planning for expansion.
  • Monitor application services up and down
  • Monitor storage capacity
  • Monitor network connectivity
  • Provide Active Directory Audit monitoring
  • ROI of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is instant, once you deploy it, you will get the full value of it.
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is well suited for somebody who is newly hired to take over the infrastructure, as he will have full visibility once it has been installed.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

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