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SolarWinds AppOptics pros and cons

Vendor: SolarWinds

3.9 out of 5

9 reviews
80% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

SolarWinds AppOptics excels in reporting, technical support, topology discovery, and network performance analysis. It offers NTA and DPA, highly values application performance management, and needs improved implementation for the cloud. A centralized view, AI troubleshooting for APIs, enhanced tool integration, and straightforward Unix service integration are also needed.

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PROS

Reporting by SolarWinds AppOptics is very good.

Technical support is always live and supportive.

Valuable features include topology discovery and network performance analysis.

Application performance management is highly valued.

Includes NTA and DPA features.

CONS

Implementation needs improvement and modernization with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models.

AppOptics needs a much more centralized view.

More advanced troubleshooting capabilities, especially AI, are needed for SolarWinds.

More integration with other market tools is desirable.

Integration with Unix services should be more straightforward.

SolarWinds AppOptics Pros review quotes

Network Engineer at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 6, 2012

AppNeta provides a range of products, all based around intelligent network testing algorithms.

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Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 4, 2016

With minimal effort on our part, TraceView provides extraordinary visibility into the requests that flow through our SOA applications.

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Web Administrator at a sports company with 51-200 employees

May 25, 2016

Customer service is exceptional, as they are very much in tune with our service needs and are always in contact for both enhancement requests and overall satisfaction.

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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Hariharan-Mahadevan

Program Director at Tata Consultancy Services

Jan 26, 2020

The reporting of the solution is very good.

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Dinesh Nekkanti

Digital Innovation at Bobcat Company

Sep 15, 2020

Technical support is always live and they're supportive.

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Olive Kusumbara

Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 2, 2021

Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis.

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PR

Senior Manager at Metrobank

Oct 19, 2022

I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management.

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Assistant Manager ICT - Projects at I&M Bank Ltd

Nov 4, 2022

The sum solution, NTA, and DPA.

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MN

DevOps consultant at Africa4Data

May 17, 2023

The product has a great dashboard.

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SolarWinds AppOptics Cons review quotes

Network Engineer at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 6, 2012

Does not perform traditional SNMP/CLI/NetFlow/WMI etc monitoring.

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Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 4, 2016

I'd like to see the ability to use other internal instrumented applications as filters in the overview/aggregation screen.

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Web Administrator at a sports company with 51-200 employees

May 25, 2016

We had a stability issue with a portion of the installation (Sequencer) when it was first introduced and have chosen not to install that specific function.

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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Hariharan-Mahadevan

Program Director at Tata Consultancy Services

Jan 26, 2020

The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models.

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Dinesh Nekkanti

Digital Innovation at Bobcat Company

Sep 15, 2020

AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view.

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Olive Kusumbara

Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 2, 2021

In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products.

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PR

Senior Manager at Metrobank

Oct 19, 2022

I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market.

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Assistant Manager ICT - Projects at I&M Bank Ltd

Nov 4, 2022

The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward.

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MN

DevOps consultant at Africa4Data

May 17, 2023

The solution should be more user-friendly.

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