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December 23, 2020

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Nikhil Kumar Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We use Solarwinds Server and Application Monitor for our customers Server and Application Infrastructure monitoring such as Windows, Linux, Unix, AIX server infra which are on-premises as well as on cloud. We also do monitor their applications such as enterprise application Office365, Teams, Skype For Business, SAP, Databases (SQL, MYSQL, Oracle).
  • GUI
  • Monitoring Method Flexibility
  • Great Out of the Box monitoring templates
  • Ability to write own script
  • All infra in one view
  • Cloud Services monitoring out of the box
  • Transactions monitoring
  • application dependencies can be improved further
  • reduce dependency on agent
  • Covers monitoring of Servers, Databases, Application using single product and cost effective
  • Node based licensing made billing process easy
  • Integrated cloud monitoring is an addon
Solarwinds Server and Application monitor is my first choice of tools preferred for server and application infrastructure monitoring because of the following reasons -
1. Single product to offer on-prem, hosted, cloud monitoring
2. Single Product to offer Server, Database and Application monitoring.
3. Flexible in monitoring methods such as - SNMP, WMI, Agent, API etc
4. Flexible in Distributed architecture across multiple geos.
5. Easy integration with other platforms such as Service Now, Splunk etc
6. Less cost comparatively.

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor can be used for any sort of servers or application monitoring such as Windows, Linux, Unix, AIX etc it also do not have any dependency on on-premises, google cloud, AWS or azure. All SAM does is to use the appropriate monitoring method having all pre-requisites in place already.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
10
Database monitoring
10
Threshold alerts
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
9
Server availability and performance monitoring
10
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
10
IT Asset Discovery
7