ManageEngine OpManager vs SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor comparison

"The tool is useful for SNMP monitoring."

"ManageEngine OpManager is user-friendly and easy to use. Additionally, useful for basic monitoring."

"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."

"It helps us a lot for monitoring our servers in one console, instead of going to individual servers."

"It is easy to use and deploy."

"The traffic monitoring and the traffic analysis are great."

"The integration with the firewall monitoring, the security monitoring, is great."

"We don't have to keep an eye on it; it has a good automation option, which keeps us informed. It gives very less false positives. Overall, a really great product."

"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."

"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"

"The solution can be deployed quickly."

"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its powerful monitoring capabilities."

"One of the most valuable features are the reports. They're pretty good. Also, the ease of installation and customization for the client is another feature that we value. SolarWinds has a lot of features but these are the ones I like the most. We also like that the KPIs have the ability to be preset."

"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."

"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."

"The graphical interfaces, GUI customizations, and alert configurations are impressive."

"This product is little bit slow sometimes. It may be that we need to change the configuration to improve performance."

"ManageEngine OpManager could improve the default dashboards that are available. We are not able to customize them easily and they do not give us the information we need unless we customize them. You need to have the technical knowledge to be able to do it, the customization should be easier."

"ManageEngine OpManager could improve by having a better cloud presence."

"It is sometimes difficult to manage the user interface. It can get very complicated."

"What I'd like ManageEngine OpManager to improve on is artificial intelligence. In particular, the machine learning feature should be integrated with the sensor flow. Doing this will give leverage, especially when you look at other products such as the Cisco DNA Center. When a switch goes down, I should be able to build on the correlation of other physical devices it's connected to so that I can integrate that with my CA CMDB. The ManageEngine OpManager team needs to draw a long-term roadmap where that feature becomes an integral part of the solution because right now, machine learning in ManageEngine OpManager is a long process. The solution doesn't have MLS search and I want to see ML being developed and applied for CA CMDB to greatly reduce the burden of tying everything. For example, if I have a data center switch that goes down now, I should know what server it's connected to, and when that switch goes down at twenty-four ports, I would get twenty-four alerts for different devices plugged in. I should be able to make a correlation that the major problem lies in the switch and not with the twenty-four elements connected to that switch. That is where machine learning should come into play and the ManageEngine OpManager AI should indicate "This is where the root of your problem is." It could be difficult, but this is a feature that should be improved or added to the solution."

"Support is moderate and needs improvement, especially during weekends when technicians perform upgrades."

"The pricing of the solution is high. They should work to adjust the pricing model to see if they can help reduce costs."

"Needs an OVA, or more support for virtual deployments. Building a virtual instance of OpManager and OpManager Probe was a bit difficult because there was no OVA available."

"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."

"One area that could benefit from improvement is its performance"

"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."

"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."

"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."

"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve by having a cloud version. They have an observability platform but it still needs to be maintained by us."

"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."

"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."

"In terms of pricing, I would rate it a two out of five. It was expensive."

"We had perpetual licenses. The cost was around 36,000 for OPManager, and then you'd have the yearly maintenance fee of 2,000 or 3,000."

"We have a standard license for ManageEngine OpManager. We purchased the license for one year and now we are upgrading it soon."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"ManageEngine OpManager is cheaper than SolarWinds."

"The pricing is moderate."

"The licensing is on a yearly basis and the pricing is on the cheaper side."

"The solution's pricing is very low compared to other products."

"We pay around $ 2,000 to $ 5,000 yearly for the solution."

"Pricing and licensing is fair for what you get. It does have a great bang-for-the-buck appeal."

"I think SolarWinds' pricing is very decent compared to other competitors in the market."

"Its licensing is on a yearly basis. It is just the standard price, but it can vary depending on the current rate of the dollar."

"SAM is not per server so the pricing model can be deceiving. If you have an enterprise environment, you will quickly exceed your licensing quickly. You should know this before going in."

"We are on an annual license to use the solution. The price of the solution is expensive. The price is based on a bunch of factors, such as the number of engines and elements."

"Price can always be lower. It is neither on the expensive side nor on the cheap side. We have worked with them for a lot of years, so we get a discount due to the size of the installation."

"Understanding the counts of objects to monitor will determine the licensing need. In terms of pricing, it’s not cheap but it’s not expensive as larger vendors whose products don’t have all the features or integrations."