SolarWinds SAM Review
Updated July 17, 2020

SolarWinds SAM Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We use SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer to help deal with Oracle performance issues. This is a primary source of information on what could be causing poor database performance. WE also use it to help identify poorly performing SQL queries by database wait time.
  • Showing top waits created via SQL queries in Oracle.
  • Provide supporting information about those queries, such as cause for wait, username, and workstation.
  • Showing anomalies in the database on a day to day basis
  • Cost is high and requires ongoing subscription.
  • Too many yearly sales calls trying to get me to buy more.
  • Greatly increased speed of database performance troubleshooting.
  • Makes the overall database load very easy to visualize.
If you need an application to help with database performance then this is a fantastic tool. It can do all kinds of databases and the connection set-up is very easy. I personally use this on both SQL and Oracle, but Oracle is our main focus.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
8
Database monitoring
9
Threshold alerts
Not Rated
Application performance management console
9
Virtualization monitoring
8
Server availability and performance monitoring
9