SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is a Solar WIN when it comes to monitoring!
November 09, 2019

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is a Solar WIN when it comes to monitoring!

Jay Myers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We use Solarwinds to monitor our infrastructure and server environment. It allows us to track traffic and remove blocks in the system before the end-user realizes there were problems. Since our school district is one to one Chromebook and iPad district. Keeping the network up and running is crucial. Being able to monitor devices as applications and pull real-time data allows us to determine our future upgrade path.

Pros

  • Real-time data reporting - During mandatory state testing periods, it allows us to keep servers load balanced and running under 50% load.
  • Application monitoring - I have several UPS's deployed throughout our district. The application monitoring allows me to see runtimes, schedule battery replacements, monitoring of loads.
  • Our database servers are crucial to our daily operations. By monitoring the databases, our DBA's can keep up with database programming to keep things from slowing down and build efficient reports that won't slow the system down.

Cons

  • Better documentation. Documentation is in a true technical format. Some easier documentation would help the new people entering into monitoring engineering get their software instance up and running quicker.
  • Solarwinds has provided sufficient ROI over the years by allowing us to monitor usage, like from our firewall and make decisions that affect network security and saving us the potential loss of funding.
  • SAM in conjunction with network monitoring has allowed us to see a minute to minute monitoring of our internet usage and gave us the information we needed to allow for our business service team to approve an increase in our internet bandwidth.
We also have the Extreme Management Center running for just our network equipment as well. We use it as a "second opinion" when it comes to network infrastructure problems. It does not monitor servers and applications, just the network infrastructure. Solarwinds SAM allows us to monitor the bigger picture and not just one small part.
Solarwinds is best suited for medium to global companies. For example, our school district is composed of 17 sites, a district office, and a support center, all of which have network equipment and servers. By centralizing the monitoring, it allows us to manage the whole district's data flow and re-route around bottlenecks before they happen. One specific instance that server and & application monitoring is key is in our datacenter. We have over 200+ servers ( Physical and virtual). Using SAM allows us to monitor usage, plan for upgrades, predict failures and keep the data moving, all without the end-users knowing if there are problems or not.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application Performance Management
9.1
Application monitoring
10
Database monitoring
10
Threshold alerts
10
Predictive capabilities
10
Application performance management console
10
Collaboration tools
5
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
4
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
10
Virtualization monitoring
10
Server availability and performance monitoring
10
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
10
IT Asset Discovery
10

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