SAM's heroes: How Server Application Monitor helped us monitor our environment
August 23, 2019
SAM's heroes: How Server Application Monitor helped us monitor our environment
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
We use SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to watch and alert on critical applications in our organization, as well as server hardware.
- Out of box templates for common applications cover a number of the applications we use. Can easily create custom templates for our more unusual applications.
- Integration with other parts of the Orion suite for better correlation of different items and dependencies.
- The out-of-box support for some of the Dell hardware could be stronger; especially around storage.
- Switching to SolarWinds has enabled us to much more swiftly discover and respond to system or application issues than our previous system. The lower administrative overhead involved has freed up considerable time for our network and systems admins for more business valuable tasks than tweaking monitoring.
We migrated from System Center Operations Manager to gain integration with better network device and configuration management & monitoring. It also enabled us to better deal with non-Microsoft applications that we use, as well as more useful alerts and notifications.