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