Best for Network monitoring that can also monitor servers, storage, databases and application!
September 25, 2020
Best for Network monitoring that can also monitor servers, storage, databases and application!
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SW is used for monitoring various Windows & Microsoft applications for corporate IT. It is used for software like Active Directory, exchanges and such and help with keeping these in good health.
- Best network monitoring possible.
- Can do firewall & F5 stuff very well.
- Network devices backups very useful.
- KVM is missing, this virtualization platform is on the rise.
- Freshly installed Linux machine usually shows a few false positives.
- Ceph storage monitoring missing.
- IPMI server hardware monitoring is a must!
- Tool has been very useful in monitoring of network issues, which benefited business.
- Software related issues regarding Microsoft software were very helpful.
Each monitoring solution has its strong and weak points. For example SolarWinds has a strong Network orientation and is amazing for network monitoring for switches, routers, firewalls, F5, etc. Nagios on the other hand is stronger in open source monitoring and is better in that aspect for example, Linux, Ceph KVM, etc.