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Safe, robust and reliable.
February 01, 2022

Safe, robust and reliable.

Rafael Santos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

The tool is used to monitor the entire technology infrastructure allied with other vendors. Here it is useful to identify outages, failures, and performance degradation, the scope of action involves the communication, servers, services, and business layers. Through this monitoring, alarms, reports, integration with ITIL-based tools, and other items such as e-mail, SMS, and messaging applications are generated.
  • Monitors windows and linux servers.
  • NETFLOW based data traffic.
  • Scripting and automating actions.
  • Integration with other tools.
  • Robust and well-distributed architecture.
  • Constant updates and specialized support center.
  • Training and educational content.
  • Capacity reports.
  • Modern interface.
  • Possibility to use other OS and DB as platform software, in addition to Windows and SQL Server.
  • 60K monitored components
  • Annual SLA above 99%
  • 500GB of historical data in the last year.
  • Approximately 100 incidents daily.
SolarWinds is cost-effective, we have a great solution provider that helps us with tool integrations and maintenance, the integration capability and extensive documentation also help a lot in the ability to use it in various monitoring models and scripts.

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

It can be used in medium and large companies, the capacity resources must be measured well to be able to guarantee that the monitoring health is satisfactory and well distributed, there are architectural scenarios with high availability and the monitoring schedule does not require many resources. There are several ready-made templates and a large amount of teaching material.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Feature Ratings

Application Performance Management
7.7
Application monitoring
8
Database monitoring
6
Threshold alerts
10
Predictive capabilities
5
Application performance management console
4
Collaboration tools
8
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
5
IT Asset Discovery
6

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Premier Support

Feature Questions

  • Knowledge base
  • Automation
  • Alarms
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
The price allied to the decision of global use of a single tool for monitoring of infrastructure reliable and with global technical support.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Reliability

The settings are simple and contain checkpoints to ensure system health and stability.
The tool works and monitors items 24x7, it only requires maintenance a little more frequently due to security fixes in the Windows operating system.
The graphical interface and the performance of the database leave a little to be desired, they could be better explored.Some functionality and screens do not work well depending on the browser used. The integrations never had any problems or caused crashes in other systems.