Hybrid Cloud Observability
SolarWinds | 2024.1Windows, Windows Server 2022 Base windows-server-2022-english-full-base-x86/x.x.x - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Great Product for Monitoring Applications
What do you like best about the product?
We have enjoyed the ability to manage and monitor home grown applications as well as generally available ones. Being able to watch for run away processes and over utilization of things like SQL and AV have been a benefit.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it is a little harder to configure that we would like. It has been a good buy for us but it is not as 100% user friendly as we would like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As we stated before, being able to watch for run away processes and over utilization of things like SQL and AV have been a benefit. Also being able to tell is services are installed or not when they are supposed to be has been a good get for us.
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Works well support is good but very expensive
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, get a great view of your network and it’s health and fast. Makes you seem like a network expert with the tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
All tools are separate and are very costly to monitor everything on a big network. Slow web interface
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Know when there are server problems before your users do.
Needs lots of work still
What do you like best about the product?
Ready-made Application Monitor Templates from SolarWinds and from their user community. It'd work great if those templates work out-of-the-box for you.
Good integration with the core SolarWinds Orion product.
Good integration with the core SolarWinds Orion product.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm still waiting for SolarWinds to improve their Linux support after 5 years of using their Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) + Server & Application Monitor (SAM). One of their newer SAM features, Application Dependency Mapping, which automatically figures out which app is talking to which on your network, only works between Windows clients/VMs and not Linux ones
Many of the SAM Application Monitor Templates, especially those contributed by their user community, are outdated and need manual adjustments before they can be applied to the versions of software application we have deployed. For example, for some templates that monitor Windows processes, the Windows process names have changed and I need to manually update them before the templates can be used.
As of the time of writing, there're 279 application templates provided by SolarWinds and 1000 templates shared by their user community (some with duplicated functions). Most of these are for the Windows platform.
It isn't difficult to build your own monitors, but it's a lot of work to do this one metric at a time!
While SAM is integrated with Orion NPM onto the same web GUI, I haven't found a way to merge data between the two products together, or even just combine two SAM monitors, to produce one chart/report. For example, I've a file size monitor on a log file, but there's no way to put this log file size growth over time chart with, say, server request per second, or with CPU usage. This severely limits the usefulness of the charts/reports.
Worse is the fact that the reporting engine is shared with Orion. They hard-code PDF reports to A4 paper size for no reason, with no way of changing it to Letter/Legal size. And the so-called web email report option results in a mht file attachment in an *empty* email, instead of a real HTML email like those sent out by their marketing team. Support staff said these were feature requests when I complained, but these requests have been outstanding for many years on their forum.
Many of the SAM Application Monitor Templates, especially those contributed by their user community, are outdated and need manual adjustments before they can be applied to the versions of software application we have deployed. For example, for some templates that monitor Windows processes, the Windows process names have changed and I need to manually update them before the templates can be used.
As of the time of writing, there're 279 application templates provided by SolarWinds and 1000 templates shared by their user community (some with duplicated functions). Most of these are for the Windows platform.
It isn't difficult to build your own monitors, but it's a lot of work to do this one metric at a time!
While SAM is integrated with Orion NPM onto the same web GUI, I haven't found a way to merge data between the two products together, or even just combine two SAM monitors, to produce one chart/report. For example, I've a file size monitor on a log file, but there's no way to put this log file size growth over time chart with, say, server request per second, or with CPU usage. This severely limits the usefulness of the charts/reports.
Worse is the fact that the reporting engine is shared with Orion. They hard-code PDF reports to A4 paper size for no reason, with no way of changing it to Letter/Legal size. And the so-called web email report option results in a mht file attachment in an *empty* email, instead of a real HTML email like those sent out by their marketing team. Support staff said these were feature requests when I complained, but these requests have been outstanding for many years on their forum.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Basic monitoring of a few applications in our environment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do a trial first. Study the available Application Monitor Templates before making a purchase decision.
Good monitoring tool for SQL server database
What do you like best about the product?
does what it say on the tin. basic monitoing tool for our SQL instances.
What do you dislike about the product?
GUI could have been better and a reporting screen which can report on job and backup failures would have been really helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitori SQL databases
Short Review
What do you like best about the product?
The Simplicity and ease of access to have access to so many different machines. It also makes working outside of the office very easy and secure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the reporting is very basic and the asset reports can only be done in bulk. Meaning when this is produced you still have to filter out thousands of "useless" information to obtain what you would like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Great reactive monitoring and great for determining when issues have arisen.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Unsure - I have only used the product as a user.
It’s easy to have a big picture
What do you like best about the product?
With Solarwinds the dashboard make our life easier. We can see if a server/application is starting to have problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would say the way solarwinds count the licenses. Exemple for sql insight it’s something like 50 licenses for only 1 server
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can see when a server need more ressources.
Great for monitoring many users on private server
What do you like best about the product?
I use this tool to monitor and trouble shoot users access to our private server in a healthcare setting. It is very easy to navigate and accessible. I like that there are many ways to search for a device (device number, user logged into it, time, date, etc), which makes it quick and easy to identify users having problems. The chat function is also helpful for trouble shooting with users that work remotely.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much that I can think of. It might be helpful to setup up user profiles to match to machines to monitor usage by user name rather than machine name. Otherwise very few dislikes for this product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trouble shooting users issues accessing server. Also used to look at our EHR product from the perspective of a clinician to analyze ease of use, practicality, and trouble shoot clinical errors.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is very useful for people working in Quality Assurance for their agency as well as IT management.
SolarWinds Server
What do you like best about the product?
Solarwinds is by far the best monitoring tool for the Job. The ease of Use of the software Allows for a better management of the task at hand.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it could sometime offer a better integration into some other tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to see in real times what changes and monitor real time evolotion of processes.
This is by far the best advantange of the tool as it give real-time information.
This is by far the best advantange of the tool as it give real-time information.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
As a whole, SolarWinds is a Great tool, easy to use for Monitoring purpose when it comed to Servers or Monitoring for Various Environment. It allows for an easy way to follow and be updated regularly on Processes.
Very useful for server monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Templates for monitoring, customization of templates to meet you requirements, easy to configure and understand.
What do you dislike about the product?
Server CPU utilization a bit confusing due to capturing of a single value during the poll time instead of the avg value.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to manage high resource utilization of the servers, useful Database monitoring capabilities.
Solarwinds SAM Review
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity of use & easy to configure
Portal is user friendly & easy to navigate
Deployment can be done in less than 1 hour with very less complexity compared to other monitoring tools
Large number of out of box monitoring templates
Portal presentation is good compared to other monitoring tools
Easy to integrate with third party ITSM like ServiceNow
Portal is user friendly & easy to navigate
Deployment can be done in less than 1 hour with very less complexity compared to other monitoring tools
Large number of out of box monitoring templates
Portal presentation is good compared to other monitoring tools
Easy to integrate with third party ITSM like ServiceNow
What do you dislike about the product?
Solarwinds Agent 7 monitoring templates are not stable
Stabilization issues when deployed on large scale complex environment
Reports presentation
Not able to monitor mainframes
Stabilization issues when deployed on large scale complex environment
Reports presentation
Not able to monitor mainframes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to monitor critical Servers & applications
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good to deploy for small to mid size DC environments
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