Small business, but big on tools!
December 30, 2019

Small business, but big on tools!

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

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Our environment is casually small compared to an enterprise-sized system. SaM is used to monitor smaller SQL DB's and has proved valuable for us to ensure optimized functionality of resources. Our applications are heavily dependent on SQL(and other) databases due to the nature of our business, primarily security and CCTV applications. Without clear insight into our critical applications, we could certainly be under stress and/or a situation that could impact our security infrastructure.
  • Ease of use and configuration.
  • Level of detail provided.
  • GUI could be a bit more altered to indicate real potential issues.
  • The cost vs. value is great, and we only pay for what we need.
Anything SQL is a great application to target. I'm not sure however how well it would work in large SQL farms.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Database monitoring
9
Threshold alerts
9
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
8
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
9
Virtualization monitoring
9
Server availability and performance monitoring
9
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
8
IT Asset Discovery
9