SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review
August 27, 2019

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review

Nate Nettrouer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We use it in the IT department for maintenance and monitoring our environment. For maintenance, we use the information given to know which servers to go in and do some quick maintenance on to help ensure they are performing at peak efficiency. As for the monitoring, the alerts we have setup help us ensure things are running smoothly.
  • The plugin and cohesiveness between Server & Application Monitor (SAM) and Database Performance Monitoring (DPA) greatly increase our DBA's time management.
  • It allows us to easily drill down into an issue and helps us see the root cause of the issue. Whether it is hardware related or on the application/software related.
  • It helps gives us very nice statistical information so we can see trends in multiple areas.
  • Not really sure. We are very pleased with its functionality, and it is fairly easy and straight forward on its use.
  • One of the biggest areas of ROI is for our DBA, with the combination of SAM and DPA we have been able to streamline the maintenance and troubleshooting of applications. On several instances, it has taken us probably less than 5 minutes to tell supervisors where the issue lies when something is not working.
  • The second area that it helps is helping us see trends on our servers to know if we need to address specific areas of growth to ensure continued productivity and smooth operations.
  • Initially this was not part of our "initial" purchase with SolarWinds, however, now it is definitely one of the core SolarWinds modules that are used on a daily basis to assist in monitoring our network.
I have not tested or used other software that would compare to Server and Application Monitor.
It does a very nice job giving you several ways to display your information. If you are more on the database side, you can see how it interacts/shows your SQL database statistics. If you are more on the web side, the interface for IIS is well done. Finally, if you are on the hardware side (like me), it gives us very good information regarding our server environment.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

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