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SRM - much improved from STM
What do you like best about the product?
It integrates with the other Orion products. So that the alert engine and reporting is in the same interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
The migration from STM to SRM took some doing and wasn't an easy transition.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing storage arrays. Knowing when the disk are off the array or are having any sort of issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
GIves complete view of the appstack. From the server down to the array and disk level. It will help in diagnoising the slowing of applications - is it the netwqork or the storage.
VMAN gives you insight
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to see high cpu and disk usage. It is also nice to see orphaned virtual machines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. Does what we need with vsphere.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finding small performance issues before they become a big deal.
VMAN - Excellent Manager
What do you like best about the product?
I like the way it helps me optimize performance in vSphere. Also I can solve some issues with it. It works great as a capacity planning tool. Nowadays the capacity of the platforma is everything so having this tool helps me control expansions that i need in my infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like the reports. It should have more opening with the customized reports. The predictive recommendations didn't work as planned. The alerts didn't have enugh information. Also didn't work with some applications in my VM
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Infrastructure. Virtualization clusters
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its a great tool. Its a great capacity planning tool, needs some needs some improvement
Minimal setup, Reasonable cost, excellent utility
What do you like best about the product?
I like that with Loggly and some software(Winston, Fluentd) I can capture, interrogate and analyze my application's log output across a variety of deployment platforms and arrangements.
I can log both my development and live servers to the same system and either join or separate their content at will. The existing collection tools for Loggly are very strong and the setup for those tools is incredibly easy. Beyond that they offer the necessary endpoints and formats to receive logs from a wide variety of candidates.
Everything from system logs on various servers to application and routing logs from custom solutions is available.
Loggly essentially runs an Elastic Stack on behalf of the user, and having set up some similar solutions to test, I can declare with confidence that the time and energy saved by *not* rolling my own logging solution(and thereby having to maintain my maintenance tools) is beyond measure.
Support is quick and helpful within reason, I've had nothing resembling a technical difficult caused by failure on Loggly's part.
I can log both my development and live servers to the same system and either join or separate their content at will. The existing collection tools for Loggly are very strong and the setup for those tools is incredibly easy. Beyond that they offer the necessary endpoints and formats to receive logs from a wide variety of candidates.
Everything from system logs on various servers to application and routing logs from custom solutions is available.
Loggly essentially runs an Elastic Stack on behalf of the user, and having set up some similar solutions to test, I can declare with confidence that the time and energy saved by *not* rolling my own logging solution(and thereby having to maintain my maintenance tools) is beyond measure.
Support is quick and helpful within reason, I've had nothing resembling a technical difficult caused by failure on Loggly's part.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cos:, While I think the price is reasonable for the amount of work saved, and at $99 a month it pays for itself immediately, placing things like the LiveTail feature(emulating tail -f) at a $250 a month price point is disappointing. Features like that are excellent at every level and I'm simply never gonna convince my superiors to spend more on our log solution than on the live servers it monitors.
Finicky: It's a pain to get your log data arranged so that the various features of the system come into play correctly. I still periodically get unparsed log entries because 2 consecutive log entries had different object signatures for the same field(including single objects vs arrays).
Query Language: There are a few ways to filter/limit data for display and analysis with Loggly, but sometimes things don't work like you think they will and it's not always clear why. Somtimes a query for field:'2' finds objects with field=2, but sometimes it finds nothing whatsoever. When this happens there's always doubt as to whether you structured your query wrong or if there's literally no data meeting the criteria to be found.
Finicky: It's a pain to get your log data arranged so that the various features of the system come into play correctly. I still periodically get unparsed log entries because 2 consecutive log entries had different object signatures for the same field(including single objects vs arrays).
Query Language: There are a few ways to filter/limit data for display and analysis with Loggly, but sometimes things don't work like you think they will and it's not always clear why. Somtimes a query for field:'2' finds objects with field=2, but sometimes it finds nothing whatsoever. When this happens there's always doubt as to whether you structured your query wrong or if there's literally no data meeting the criteria to be found.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Logs for server-side code are a right pain. Parsing and analyzing logs from a cluster of containers all outputting logs directly to console.log is a nightmare.
Simply put Loggly offers a robust system with simple inputs that allows you to funnel log data to a common, web-accessible location where it can be stored and interacted with in a number of robust ways. Before Loggly our hands were often tied if a user complaint fell into server code, there was simply not an easy way to parse logs from several servers, some of which may have been drained and terminated, and meaningfully determine what was going on.
Loggly gave me the ability to search and sort log data to find the source of problems.
Within a week of completing our integration of Loggly we were discovering the source and profile of bugs that had eluded us for 6 months.
With further adaptation of our web app to the new logging approach, we can start to see traffic patterns and analyse user behavior from the logs as well.
Lastly, Loggly prevents us from taking on a new maintenance and development project in order to analyze our main maintenance and development project. Loggly lets us break the potentially infinite chain of working on tools to work on tools.
Simply put Loggly offers a robust system with simple inputs that allows you to funnel log data to a common, web-accessible location where it can be stored and interacted with in a number of robust ways. Before Loggly our hands were often tied if a user complaint fell into server code, there was simply not an easy way to parse logs from several servers, some of which may have been drained and terminated, and meaningfully determine what was going on.
Loggly gave me the ability to search and sort log data to find the source of problems.
Within a week of completing our integration of Loggly we were discovering the source and profile of bugs that had eluded us for 6 months.
With further adaptation of our web app to the new logging approach, we can start to see traffic patterns and analyse user behavior from the logs as well.
Lastly, Loggly prevents us from taking on a new maintenance and development project in order to analyze our main maintenance and development project. Loggly lets us break the potentially infinite chain of working on tools to work on tools.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look at their integrations, determine if you can use their tools to build the sort of structure you need.
Spend some real dev time reducing log noise(we ran a search for "console.log" and removed all of them, then went back and started adding calls to our logger explicitly and carefully) and building in the necessary components to standardize the log entry process.
Look into Fluentd, it's excellent for routing, filtering and translating logs, it can help as an adapter to make sure Loggly gets what it needs from where it needs.
Spend some real dev time reducing log noise(we ran a search for "console.log" and removed all of them, then went back and started adding calls to our logger explicitly and carefully) and building in the necessary components to standardize the log entry process.
Look into Fluentd, it's excellent for routing, filtering and translating logs, it can help as an adapter to make sure Loggly gets what it needs from where it needs.
Solarwinds SAM is key to Infrastructure Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
The easy to use UI is very appealing to new users within our business, and being able to import templates from their online community helps greatly with our business needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's nothing I really dislike about SAM.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to self heal services that have stopped/failed, and can send actions to restart them.
Implementar enviroment more 500 nodes
What do you like best about the product?
Option of the to monitor software and hardware in a single module.
What do you dislike about the product?
So, my customer says about not can to be possible to monitor in real time. Or same times not have template done. I not have questions dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Can to do inventory for enviroment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Mabe to work in reall time.
It is a simple yet powerful tool for monitoring server and applications.
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that Solarwinds had made many improvements over the past years and now they have alot of modules and products that complements each other. for SAM, it is a really powerfull tool for monitoring and knowing what is happening with the services/application. It leaves the guessing outfor us administrators. Really easy tool. You should try it now
What do you dislike about the product?
Well at first maybe you need to know a little bit more about what you want to monitor for the application part. but when you get the hand of it, its really simple and useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are monitoring our critical applications, like middleware, web services and crm. Before solarwinds SAM, we have a hard time troubleshooting when the applications went "Slow" or unavailable. Now with the insights of SAM, we can look for the root cause of the problems very quickly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You should try solarwinds with a demo and reach out to a partner or solarwinds directly. They can do a PoC and algo help you look for the best products for you needs. Make sure you know what are your needs and let them know what are you pain points.
Expidite the resolution time for any Application
What do you like best about the product?
Versatility in monitoring with various out of the box components and the script based components.
Advanced monitoring using some of the customizable components mixed with dynamic and Advanced/SQL Alerting allow for any imaginable or experienced scenario to captured by SAM and properly alerted on.
Advanced monitoring using some of the customizable components mixed with dynamic and Advanced/SQL Alerting allow for any imaginable or experienced scenario to captured by SAM and properly alerted on.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much that you can not do with SAM. Most of my complaints or issues rally around UI and some minor functionality. Though where the out of the box measures fall short, there are many customizable options to fill the gap to obtain and provide the data and insight needed top properly run and manage multiple business critical applications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Over the years I have used SAM for Notification of downed or stalled applications and machines. This has ranged from mechanical pharmaceutical dispensers to debit card printers at local branches. Faster remediation of both clinical and pharmacy applications and devices has prevented financial and total life loss on a regular basis. Alerting on debit card printer issues allowed a Card Service Provider to better communicate and re-mediate issues with printing new debit cards before it affected clients access to their own funds.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have a few specific idea's of implementation when demoing. If you are unable to setup a POC provide these details to your sales rep and request a tuned demonstration based around your need.
Great Unified IT Monitoring tool!
What do you like best about the product?
We use Orion performance monitor with net flow traffic analyze add on as well as the Virtualization Manager. I like the fact that you can add monitoring templates depending on the device that you want to monitor and also its great that you can create NOCs views with visual and audio alerts
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool is a little bit expensive and upgrading from one version to another is not straight forward.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are managinng more than 500 hosts and this tools help a lot to monitor each interface and let us know when something is not right.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking to monitor network devices don't forget to add the net flow analyzer add on.
SolarWinds SAM
What do you like best about the product?
This product works quite well. It allows you to quickly setup monitors for applications, process, services, and so much more. There is so much that it can do you're practically only limited by you knowledge of programming. You can extensively customize the way you monitor just about everything on your network.
What do you dislike about the product?
Often you have to build things yourself and there are no out of the bag templates for specific things.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We monitor URL's, Server applications (Processes, service and log files) We have built out monitor scripts to monitor fail-over environments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It works very well and there are plenty of training courses for it
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