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SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor pros and cons

Vendor: SolarWinds
4.0 out of 5

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PROS

Management is simplified with features that include capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics.
SSL Certificate Monitoring, Expiry Alerting, and AppInsight offer in-depth application monitoring.
Group management capabilities provide visibility into sites and categories, enhancing dashboard utility.
Open database integration supports compatibility with various service desks, enabling seamless operations.
AppStack and application dependency features provide comprehensive identification and alert capabilities.

CONS

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor needs enhanced performance and stability, especially regarding the web console which can crash or hang.
Reporting features in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor are complex and need improvement, including the ability to export reports to Excel.
The subscription management for different modules in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor lacks synchronization, impacting licensing periods.
SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor has limitations in application performance monitoring, especially with non-Microsoft technologies like Apache.
Technical support response times for SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor have declined, affecting timely issue resolution.
 

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor Pros review quotes

it_user160827 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Infrastructure at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 16, 2016
Management Console - Managing service to each server enrolled in the Solarwinds is much easier. Using a web base console, you can control your service much convenient way. There is no need to login remotely. It save a lot of time and effort.
it_user216399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 29, 2016
SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting
it_user577974 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 10, 2017
AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint.
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it_user652953 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a construction company with 51-200 employees
Apr 25, 2017
The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value.
it_user653568 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Services Department Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 26, 2017
AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters.
it_user631218 - PeerSpot reviewer
Subject Matter Expert at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 27, 2017
Manage Groups: The capability to group appropriate devices gives better visibility of sites, categories, or critical regions. The same can be used to represent a dashboard for higher management.
NetworkOb0a3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Operation Center Team Leader at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 7, 2017
Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time.
it_user660057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
May 7, 2017
I adore the NTA module that provides deep details on ingress/egress traffic for any interface. With a few clicks, you can correlate who is accessing what and when, beside the bandwidth consuming applications/users.
it_user664653 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Monitoring Technologies Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
May 14, 2017
It is simple to implement and can provide fairly decent Windows-based monitoring, beyond simple SNMP. It is great for monitoring newbies and smaller shops.
it_user685350 - PeerSpot reviewer
Availability & Production Mgr, IT at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 15, 2017
Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer.
 

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor Cons review quotes

it_user160827 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Infrastructure at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 16, 2016
Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance.
it_user216399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 29, 2016
Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL.
it_user577974 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 10, 2017
Mapping interactions between systems.
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it_user652953 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a construction company with 51-200 employees
Apr 25, 2017
I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial.
it_user653568 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Services Department Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 26, 2017
SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes.
it_user631218 - PeerSpot reviewer
Subject Matter Expert at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 27, 2017
PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions.
NetworkOb0a3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Operation Center Team Leader at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 7, 2017
Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based.
it_user660057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
May 7, 2017
I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic.
it_user664653 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Monitoring Technologies Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
May 14, 2017
It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window.
it_user685350 - PeerSpot reviewer
Availability & Production Mgr, IT at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 15, 2017
Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc.