SolarWinds Observability SaaS
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Granular Infrastructure and OS Monitoring with no Intuition or Artificial Intelligence
What do you like best about the product?
SolarWinds SAM is highly customizable and can monitor almost anything on a server that can be accessed remotely. AppInsight monitors provide very rich performance data. NetPath and Perfstack features have been used heavily since added to the platform. The community is very knowledgeable and more helpful than support (sadly). The forum has great participation and a great rewards system to keep users engaged. There are lots of ideas shared on the site and many monitors have been uploaded and available for use to any user.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product requires tedious administration and is very time consuming.
Alert storms are common and fine tuning thresholds is highly manual and tedious.
The UI is cluttered, slow, and outdated. Customizing the UI is painful and has a learning curve.
The learning curve is very high and frustrating for advanced monitoring setup.
The application is often slow and unstable. It can be challenging to troubleshoot too and support is awful after they got bought out by the private firm.
Alert storms are common and fine tuning thresholds is highly manual and tedious.
The UI is cluttered, slow, and outdated. Customizing the UI is painful and has a learning curve.
The learning curve is very high and frustrating for advanced monitoring setup.
The application is often slow and unstable. It can be challenging to troubleshoot too and support is awful after they got bought out by the private firm.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Service availability is a major monitor we utilize. Providing reactionary alerts to certain thresholds to alert the proper team in our event management software. Tracing application performance problems back to the infrastructure or vindicating infrastructure as a problem and reducing mean time to repair (MTTR).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If man hours are not a concern, it is a decent product. One man shows should look for a product with more automation and intelligence built in. UI is not very clean. Setting up basic monitoring for servers takes about 15 minutes each if done individually. Bulk discovery tool is very clunky and unreliable.
Easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
We use this for our server around the state. It is easy to use and wasy to read.
What do you dislike about the product?
For my use there isn't anything to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitering server status.
High potential monitoring software
What do you like best about the product?
Bargain priced data monitoring tool which provides many ways to analyze this information. The notifications make it really convenient because it will allow you to know before something happens. Data analysts in our group work together using this software, easily learning and maintaining of it with simplicity.
What do you dislike about the product?
The different pricing options can be rather difficult to choose from, even though the models are straight forward. It just can be different to choose which one would work best for you. Also the web interface is very simple and easy which is good but may need some improvement in terms of customization.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Real time cloud monitoring of data and metrics at all levels of the business. There are many competitors in this space, we just found Librato to be the best match for us. It is fairly price once reviewing the options and really does get you everything you need from it.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would suggest just giving it a try, it really has a lot of potential for you at a price point that's more than far comparing to other competitors. Could definitely see this software working at every level whether you are a small business or large, could see being the same amount of help at either.
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.
Practical way to monitor your VM environment
What do you like best about the product?
SolarWinds is an easy tool to monitor your VM environment. I enjoyed customizing my own dashboard. Instantly I could spot any "red" marked VMs, datastores and other VM elements. The reporting tool is so powerful with a large number of preset reports. I loved the capacity planner, it helped me decide and plan ahead of time when to purchase new ESX servers or do a memory upgrade.
What do you dislike about the product?
The appliance upgrade wasn't that straightforward. It should be simplified and done immediately without having to download new image and then import it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used SolarWinds virtualization manager for over 4 years.i could monitor over 600 VMware VMs in 3 different vcenters. I enjoyed customizing my own dashboard. The notifications pointed out a number of issues and helped me optimize the environment. The reporting tool was easy to use, and i could quickly export a variety of reports that where helpful to the management.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This tool is essential for VM admins. It is easy to deploy and customize.
Pingdom monitoring service
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud based service, easy to setup multiple domains and multiple alert levels.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although it seems nearly unavoidable, we will frequently use up all of our SMS alerts anytime a server goes down for scheduled updates late at night. Typically we'll get an SMS alert for each domain stating that it is down, and then within 5 minutes we'll get an SMS alert stating that it is back online.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Website uptime monitoring.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Competitively priced monitoring service that provides some peace of mind that you will be first to know if a website is down.
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
A lot of good information!
What do you like best about the product?
I like how well it keeps track of our storage, letting us know if there are any issues. The predictions on disks/volumes filling up are useful for capacity planning purposes. I also really like the Performance Analyzer, which is driven by the new metrics features - the ability to drag and drop various metrics and rearrange things easily is a fabulous feature. The ability to have more than just one manufacturer's worth of storage listed and compared is very handy, giving us the ability to see the whole environment instead of just pieces.
What do you dislike about the product?
The appstack displays seem to not always accurately portray our environment at the higher abstraction levels (meaning at the application layers), though it's usually close enough to be useful. In some cases it seems to have its own look and feel to it, which isn't necessarily bad but isn't like the rest of the SW suite.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As mentioned, using it for capacity management and planning has more than paid for its additional cost. We can see at a glance what LUNs are more filled and which are less, how long we expect it to be before we'll have to add space, and can really dig into performance characteristics far more easily than it had been using our SAN-vendor's tools.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
While I haven't seen them recently, I was pleasantly surprised that the demos and screenshots really do give you a decent feel for what the product really brings to the table. I suspect this is still the case, so I suggest to get on the phone with your SW rep and see if you can swing a demonstration!
Solarwinds was a good product to see server status at a glance
What do you like best about the product?
I liked being able to drill down into each network interface to see what sort of traffic was coming through. I could drill down to a specific connection and see details.
What do you dislike about the product?
A local application might be better as far as speed goes. It was slow to connect and move around at peak times during the business day.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our Support team was able to monitor all activity in one place.
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