Great App Services Monitoring Tool
January 19, 2022

Great App Services Monitoring Tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

[SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM)] is a good friend for administrators of the Orion. The extensive WAN activity monitoring needs of my customer are met for and exceeded by SAM. It is especially useful when you have a large infra with complicated, very distributed infra operations. It is used to monitor critical network applications like DHCP, AD, DNS, etc [...]
  • WAN activity monitoring
  • Critical network applications monitoring
  • Seamless integration with the Orion platform
  • Software App monitoring would be good.
  • Scaled down versions would be good.
  • Budget friendly for SME use version would be good.
  • Ability to monitor both legacy and cloud
  • Able to see the app performance
  • Helps shorten app performance troubleshooting time
Went straight to SAM as already NPM users

Do you think SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor's feature set?

Yes

Did SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor again?

Yes

The auto discover feature is a good starting point to discover all the servers and applications in the network. This is then followed by an overview of the dependencies which will show the gaps and spots of poor performance.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application monitoring
8
Database monitoring
5
Threshold alerts
8
Predictive capabilities
6
Application performance management console
7
Collaboration tools
8
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
6
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
6
Virtualization monitoring
8
Server availability and performance monitoring
9
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
9
IT Asset Discovery
5