SolarWinds makes your life easier and your network more efficient.
Updated July 17, 2020
SolarWinds makes your life easier and your network more efficient.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
We the application monitor to both keep track of and monitor the nodes on our network. It not only allows us to pinpoint areas of failure, but is a thorough system to documents IP addresses, MAC addresses, and SMTP devices such as networked cameras. The alert system in SolarWinds is probably the most useful tool - we have setup intricate monitors and alerts to correctly alert the right department at the right time. The versatility of the program allows us to monitor everything from servers, to switches, to specific processes running on VM's hundreds of miles away.
- Versatility: The program allows for monitoring of almost any system, simple or complex and allows for intricately programmed alerts based on each monitor.
- Ease of use: Type in the URL, and you are greeted with a fully customizable dashboard with any and all of the pertinent features to your workflow.
- Modular: The program itself is very powerful, but the ability to add or remove features based on need is exceptional compared to competitors.
- Help links & additional tool-tips. Having thorough and easy to understand instructions is the most important part of software this comprehensive and it would be great to include direct links to wiki pages.
- Monitor/Alert templates. The program could use more and simpler alerts and monitors.
- Decreased downtime across all network applications. Time is money and SolwarWinds saves you both.
- Increased productivity. Our IT team is able to perform the needed work at a much faster pace than without the program.
- SolarWinds versatility has saved countless hours of searching for the right tools to achieve a task because they all right there in front of you.
- Barracuda CloudGen Firewall (formerly NG Firewalls)
While SolarWinds does not offer an appliance-based setup the usability offered from running through a VM is miles ahead of the competitors. Being able to easily migrate from something like windows HyperVisor to VMWare without any setbacks or serious network configuration leads me to believe that SolarWinds is the be all, end all answer for us when it comes to monitoring software.