One monitoring tool for all your application monitoring needs
April 24, 2020

One monitoring tool for all your application monitoring needs

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

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor together with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is being used to monitor all network devices, physical and virtual servers. I would say the system is being used by the whole organization, as we are covering all applications in the company. All URLs/services/process/disk space are monitored with response times. After implementing the SolarWinds SAM, we are getting insights into the application response times. Also, the live performance data for servers is amazing. It also addresses the ease of building different reports for the organization. Alerts and reports can be customized to your needs. You will really feel the real difference if you are moving from SCOM reports to SolarWinds. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor also allows you to build MAPS/Diagrams with live view, so it's easy for your NOC team to monitor and report. Custom tagging allows you to group servers in the same project which will come in handy when you create views. Custom views and the custom menu are really helpful to customize the view for each individual/department.
  • Response times for web URLs
  • SOAP/Rest monitoring
  • Service/Process Monitoring
  • Custom Reporting
  • Custom Alerts
  • Building MAPS/Diagram
  • Custom View/Menu
  • With 1 license, you can monitor all applications on the server.
  • MAPS has to be improved
  • 100% benefit from the purchase
  • You will be overwhelmed with data
  • Monitor applications - SCOM - difficult & complicated, Solarwinds - Easy
  • Reporting - SCOM - Difficult & needs to have knowledge of SQL querying, Solarwinds - Easy
  • Alerting - SCOM - shows alerts only when the nodes are down, Solarwinds - can create custom views to see all nodes monitored
  • MAPS/Diagram - SCOM - no choice, Solarwinds - Amazing live view ( depends on your creativity )
Best suited if you are interested in monitoring applications (SQL/SharePoint/IIS, etc.) running on your server. To just monitor the CPU/memory/hard disk, if you already have SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, that would be enough. Even though monitoring systems like SCOM can do the same thing, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is much easier to configure as there are inbuilt templates for each.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
10
Database monitoring
10
Threshold alerts
10
Predictive capabilities
10
Application performance management console
10
Collaboration tools
10
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
10
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