SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

What do you like best about the product?

I like that it’s user-friendly, and that when I run into a problem, I can investigate the source of the issue on THWACK.

What do you dislike about the product?

The interface includes so many features that it can sometimes be difficult to quickly locate specific settings.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Real-time change notifications and configuration back-ups of network devices.
Network security compliance.
Syslog monitoring.
Tracking EOL&EOS of software and hardware.

What do you like best about the product?

It helps reduce downtime and makes it easier to trace errors.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing to complain about—everything works well. It’s easy to use, has an interactive interface, and is straightforward to integrate with other APIs. Overall, it provides a good return on the investment.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us onboard new servers and applications to our network, and then monitor and support them.

What do you like best about the product?

Ease of use and good product and the ability to monitor network .

What do you dislike about the product?

It took a long time to set up our instance.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The status of on prem network equipment.

What do you like best about the product?

The functionality that comes out of the box but also the ability to create custom monitoring is fantastic

What do you dislike about the product?

Dashboard creation is a little lacking but getting better recently. Also saas product not being on prem capable

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to be more proactive on our enterprise

What do you like best about the product?

Solarwinds offers a wide range of plugins and widgets that can be used effectively for seamless monitoring. It has a good UI and provides a very smooth overall experience.

What do you dislike about the product?

There’s nothing specific when it comes to checking error logs, and there isn’t an easy way to understand the logs.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it for day-to-day monitoring on our production system. It makes it easy to identify issues quickly and work through them smoothly, and many problems can be fixed directly in the SolarWinds console. For example, if the SolarWinds agent is reported as down, we can start the agent from the console itself to resolve the issue.

What do you like best about the product?

Provides alerting for network devices so we know when our circuits go down at our offices.
Disk space alerts for Servers

What do you dislike about the product?

Some of the new modern dashboards don't have the same functionality as the old

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Network observability

What do you like best about the product?

Vendor agnostic features, scalability and self hosted.

What do you dislike about the product?

Slow adoption on some vendors and technologies .

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bandwidth Analysis, performance monitoring and correlation .

What do you like best about the product?

Ease the of use, setting of performance monitoring

What do you dislike about the product?

UDP pollers and SQL help are useful, but it’s hard to configure legacy devices when using SNMP pollers.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Consolidating alarms and systems

What do you like best about the product?

Single Place for monitoring and troubeshooting

What do you dislike about the product?

Dashboards, and reports seems to be very anti user friendly. I find myself annoyed how bad it can be to get a simple dashboard/report made

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I monitor my entire network infrastructure and able to send alerts to service now for my NOC to manage and action on. This leaves our network team out of the trouble calls a lot of the time

What do you like best about the product?

Most out of the box features are enabled when you bring in a node.

What do you dislike about the product?

Requires custom pollers for some of the bigger enterprise hardware.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Finding service issues in a single pane of glass helps reduce the areas or applications you have to use.