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    Information Technology and Services

Solar Winds Support

  • December 27, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
This application gives us insight into what is functional and what is not.
What do you dislike about the product?
We receive crash reports pretty often, and incident reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Johnson Controls and SolarWinds for similar roles, in overseeing.


    Internet

Great for monitoring applications

  • December 19, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
flexibility to monitor many applications
What do you dislike about the product?
Interface needs updating seems a bit dated now
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making sure our servers are running 5 nines


    Oil & Energy

Great but Cumbersome

  • December 12, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The interface is very detailed and allows for very detailed reporting.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface can be pretty cumbersome and hard to navigate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We monitor our server parameters, so that we have alerts when a system gets out of bounds.


    Non-Profit Organization Management

Great

  • November 29, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Works great and manages everything with ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you do not manage your alerts properly, it can blow up your texts/emails.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves all of our serving monitoring needs perfectly. I've realized it does a lot more than we use it for.


    Restaurants

Solid, but not spectacular product

  • November 17, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The interface was easy to use and intuitive
What do you dislike about the product?
Some configuration of monitors was tough
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring and application performance of business critical applications
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good low cost alternative for application monitoring


    Architecture & Planning

great product

  • November 09, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
great product. This is a great product and
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing I dislike about this product. Thanks
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring


    Consumer Electronics

Solarwinds

  • November 06, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
incredibly robust, lots of configurations
What do you dislike about the product?
if you are a network engineer or involved in infrastructure it might be a little too complicated to set up to get what you want
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
hardware limitations, traffic


    Adam J.

Functional and flexible monitoring solutions

  • October 29, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It will monitor anything and everything you need. SMTP, Windows, Linux, Virtual, Web, it is Very flexible. The product delivers as it is billed. Anything that you want to monitor it will monitor.

Managing credentials for windows, linux, SMTP is very easy and intuitive.

The NOC views and dashboards are very good and flexible.

The pricing is good especially when compared against the new cloud monitoring services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Too much time to setup and maintain. Alert spam is really easy to run into. Dependancies do not seem to work as well as expected. It talks a little too long to configure everything. The UI doesn't feel modern. Nothing to differentiate it from the competitors.

The renewal pricing could be better.

The sales practices and renewal tactics are very annoying. I would recommend if using the product to engage a reseller and have all interaction through them to create a buffer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving event management and incident response. It allows IT to proactively respond to events before our customer report there is an issue. The Solarwinds Server and Application monitor solution delivers on these business objectives.

It is hard to monitor ROI on something like this. We all need a solution and they all seem to be similarly priced.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider the time to create monitoring and maintain the system. Items like dependancies are difficult to setup correctly. The alert span is really easy. Solarwinds sales tactics and practices are very annoying.

All the on-premise solutions are similar in pricing with the same features. It is hard to say one is poor vs another. Solarwinds will delivery, but so will their competitors, find the solution that fits your staffing and company.


    Information Technology and Services

Loggly was very useful when dealing with production issues.

  • October 03, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Loggly alerting mechanism with different set of alert types was very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would have been great to have sub accounts instead creating separate loggly accounts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Was monitoring API's and performance. Loggly was helpful capturing logs and identifying production issues.


    Andreas R.

Useful monitoring tool with a bit of a learning curve

  • August 15, 2016
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It's a good comprehensive solution for monitoring both internal and hosted servers in one management panel.
It has a lot of options for customization, allowing you to get a great dashboard and also tailor made alerts.
It also has a lot of integrations.
Besides monitoring downtime, we also are able to monitor everything from CPU usage and disk space to give us a heads up on imminent resource needs.
It feels like a very comprehensive solution with a lot of opportunity to add complimentary products.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not always easy to deploy. Better deployment tools would improve the product tremendously.
We had an agent stop reporting for unfathomable reasons.
Being contacted back by support took a few days, which is not optimal for a business critical services. They were nice and competent enough, and helped us re-mediate the issue of the agent not responding, but we did expect a faster initial response time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a tool that allowed us to monitor and generate alerts on both internal servers and servers hosted by third party providers. Especially the ability to tunnel means that we've not had any environments that we've been unable to communicate through, which is a great benefit for us.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Solarwind has a lot of power under the hood, the customization especially is a very strong feature.
You need to be prepared for both a learning curve and that the interface needs a face lift. Once you learn how to use it, you will be very happy with a very powerful product.