SolarWinds Observability SaaS
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Solarwinds Server & Application Monitor
What do you like best about the product?
Provides a huge library of available component monitors from snmp and wmi to various script based options such as powershell. Recent additions of AppInsight monitors for IIS, Exchange, etc are incredibly useful. Automatic detection of which AppInsight template is applicable to which node keeps implementation pretty simple and straight forward.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes understanding how and where to apply certain templates can be a little confusing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have gained a much deeper level of visibility into some of our critical environments that we did not have with previous monitoring solutions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Spend some time on the thwack.com user community, even if you don't end up purchasing the software, you can still participate there and learn a lot of stuff from the community.
SolarWInds NTA Review
What do you like best about the product?
Netflow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is a great product for finding the who, what ,when of traffic utilization. I have seen first hand how this product has identified traffic, applications, and conversations that were causing bandwidth issues or concerns. By taking this information and reviewing it, it has saved Clients from having to spend money on upgrades or have caught rogue systems or applications performing actions during business hours. It is easy to define custom Applications and even IP groups to look for aggregate bandwidth usage.
What do you dislike about the product?
NTA is based on Layer 3 flow data, which in some environments are limited and thus missing out on seeing traffic data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WAN Upgrades, WAN usage during business hours, general data communications and amount leaving the organization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have a good plan on what sources you want to configure to provide flow data into SolarWinds Orion NTA.
Solarwinds SAM continues to save the day!
What do you like best about the product?
SAM gives us the ability to leave the office and trust that our servers and applications are being monitored as effectively as possible!
What do you dislike about the product?
As with anything Solarwinds the cost can be prohibitive to some organizations however it is money well spent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are monitoring our environment for issues and use the information from SAM to catch the issues before the end user does!
Incredible tool
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite thing about this product is all the detail that is provided when monitoring a server. One of the biggest things for me is being able to look at Windows updates on the server at a glance to know which servers are potentially behind on updates
What do you dislike about the product?
I haven't really found anything that I disliked although I did find it a bit confusing at first to set up alerts
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This product has helped us maintain server patching and updates, which is a huge plus. It's also been a huge help telling us if a service is down that can effect one of our vital applications. This helps us resolve issues much sooner
Review for NTA
What do you like best about the product?
I like the granulariness (I know spelling but I like this word). To be able to drill down and see what is happening in our county offices is a must when a user calls and complains they are slow.
What do you dislike about the product?
I guess the only thing I can think of is when a user calls and we check NTA and we don't see anything. That can be disheartening because then I have to dig deeper to see why.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problem used to be an office would call about being slow. Until NTA all we did was have them reboot their pc but now we can narrow it down to a single pc or even if it is affecting the whole state we can drill down and find what is sucking the life blood of our network. We get to tattle on people if they are listening to music like pandora.
SAM saves the day
What do you like best about the product?
Customization for alerts is probably the best feature of the SAM product with virtually limitless options on what you can monitor and customization for alerting we've even set it up to send emails to our exchange tools to automate actions we want taken when certain alerts are received.
What do you dislike about the product?
There really isn't anything I dislike about the product but I will note that you need to be very careful about alert-sprawl; alerts tend to breed like rabbits if not properly managed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most common task we use SAM to monitor for and fix are stopped services and changes to critical security configurations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you plan your environment and work with your Application group(s) to determine what needs to be monitored and what can be excluded. Pay attention to the size of your servers and know that the minimum recommendations are generally not sufficient for scaling the system.
Server and Application Manager
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to see the Server services, and detailed information about the servers and the applications that are running on them
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing I do not like about this product. It is a work horse
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application performance problems and Server performance problems
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would definitely buy this product again and again.
NTA Review for SolarWinds
What do you like best about the product?
I like the interface the best as it provides an excellent view.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of anything I dislike yet. I have to use it more often to become 100% familiar.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This helps us determine if there is any communication errors between endpoints or applications that we need 100% up-time on.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
None at this time
Netflow helps to update the bandwidth requirements
What do you like best about the product?
NTA shows bandwidth uses based on application and protocols and also covers many popular vendor. Top talker and top conversation reports helps in troubleshooting bandwidth issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
should include capacity planning reports for bandwidth usage based on history.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
bandwidth updates for certain circuits which needed it most.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It helps in isolatinng bandwidth related issues and update line bandwidth if required.
Greater insight into your slow network!
What do you like best about the product?
Netflow is one of the better solarwinds modules that we use everyday. It brings great insight into your bandwidth and can show you exactly what is going on. It has helped with the age old issue 'the network is slow', as more often than not it is due to bandwidth; and now we can see exactly why it is slow and stop it. The historical information is another great help, as you can see previous bandwidth hogs as to why the network was under performing at a given time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Set up can be a little complex, especially in a complex network. It requires a separate server to run efficiently which isn't always practical or cheap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It highlights bandwidth hogs and it allows our network to work more efficiently. It helps keep the network performing well and highlights potential issues almost everyday. It also saves us a lot of time in diagnosing a slow network call, which can often be solved in a few minutes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking to save a lot of time hunting network performance issues and slow down, NTA is a fantastic tool and worth the effort of set up and the cost.
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