SolarWinds Observability SaaS
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Solarwinds NPM
What do you like best about the product?
NPM offers high visibility into your network with a user friendly interface. The product offers a high level of customizability allowing you to honing your monitoring and alerting needs. Getting the product up and running is pretty straightforward. The learning curve comes in when honing your monitoring. Support is responsive and reliable. The Thwack community also offers helps for deployment and management questions. The interface offers loads of charts and graphs allowing you to show how your network and key interfaces are performing.
What do you dislike about the product?
No particular dislikes with the product, however it does take time to deploy as you pull in your network devices. Since licensing is base on the number of elements being monitored (devices and interfaces), you need to be knowledge about what you're monitoring. Charts and graphs can take a little time to tweak to get the data that's relevant to you. Creating custom reports also isn't intuitive however the Solarwinds support is great at assisting you when needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solarwinds offered a centralized location for all team members to analyze performance of the network and related devices, Alerts allowed us to respond to outages quickly and reduce downtime for users. The product delves deep into the network allowing you to spot minor issues before they become user impacting.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do through research on what you need to monitor as the licensing structure is based on how many devices and interfaces your are monitoring. Signup and get active on the Thwack community as this is a gave resource for getting the product setup.
Very Intuitive Configuration Management
What do you like best about the product?
the software is intuitive and easy to use. The alerting system both for policy alerts and real time configuration management is great! It is so easy to push out bulk configuration updates to multiple network devices by group for when large numbers of change need to be made. There is also a system for built in Chang approval for configuration jobs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Configuration policy application is difficult to apply correctly, but works well once it is done right.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Configuration backups, configuration policy compliance, bulk network device changes
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Cisco Prime is more in one with Cisco specific devices, but if you want one tool for all your monitoring needs, NCM is a great option.
A cloud service
What do you like best about the product?
Real time cloud monitoring. Go from zero to full stack monitoring in minutes. Gather metrics from AWS.You can integrate it fast
What do you dislike about the product?
I like everything. I like the software it is easy to integrate
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can secure and monitor my data.. It is hosted monitoring platform designed for custom metrics.it consists of scalable storage for your data
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great platform
The standard for network monitoring solutions
What do you like best about the product?
Many ways to customize dashboards, alerts, and reports. Easy to limit information based on roles.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance issues can be hard to diagnose and fix.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickly identifying the source of performance issues. Reporting of policy violations across hundreds of network devices. Repository for config backups.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider final scale of deployment when setting up the different required servers. Do not skimp on database performance.
Excellent for finding application issues
What do you like best about the product?
How easy it is to use and the charts and graphs.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can sometimes be slow depending on parameters used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When there is a service that is down or high memory utilization.
Server software
What do you like best about the product?
It handles all of our server monitoring very well no complaints here.
What do you dislike about the product?
We dont really have any issues with the software it works as expected
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping track of the server applications and statuses is a must for us
Real Time Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Solar winds is a powerful tool that helps you to maintain your systems in a real-time fashion. It allows you to drill down and find any possible issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much to dislike it is a slick tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use for monitoring our network and storage
SAM gives you the flexibility to monitor anything.
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to configure with templates readily available and ready to be customized.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't always get my users to cough up credentials for me to monitor their applications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring SSL certs
Apps, services, ports, specific vendor OID's
Apps, services, ports, specific vendor OID's
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Read the documentation and visit thwack.com to tap into the excellent help in the user community.
Explain to your end users that you will need credentials to be able to monitor some components.
Explain to your end users that you will need credentials to be able to monitor some components.
Right tool for the job
What do you like best about the product?
I like how simple it is to use and set up. Basically set and usually forgot. It's like it takes care of itself
What do you dislike about the product?
No complaints so far. Hoping this trend keeps up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring and management at its best.
Best Application ever used
What do you like best about the product?
Analysis part is in much detailed way. Which is very impressive
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as of now as per the company requirements
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring of applications and servers
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