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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monitoring agent makes surface triage simple and fast
What do you like best about the product?
the drill down features make identifying issues in term meaningful to a developer great.
What do you dislike about the product?
At this time I have not had any issues with this product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SQL issues mostly
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Fan of SAM
What do you like best about the product?
Building our own application monitors for custom programs. Being able to monitor anything and everything we need to monitor. Building alerts and custom actions to those alerts.
What do you dislike about the product?
As with all Solarwinds products there is a lot of options to SAM. You are able to do so much it can get overbearing. Just take the time and make it happen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One issue we have had is an application locking up. While we were working out the bugs we created a monitor and had the application restart when it went down.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a trial it is free for 30 days. A must have especially if you have home brew applications.
Pretty good templates and basic application monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
I like the templates, either canned or ones you can build, to apply across a line of servers to monitor applications. It is fairly easy to monitor processes or services for availability and performance. They recently (in 6.6) added some application dependency mapping (using an agent) to show what network connections are made by what services out to other servers/services, this is a nice addition if you are using the agent.
What do you dislike about the product?
The web interface is not always the easiest to use. If there is a problem with an application you click on the red text thinking it will tell you what the problem is, but it is often a few more clicks away.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to apply the same template across multiple deployment tiers, allowing our developers to get access to the same monitoring that we will use in production. This allows them to make sure their applications are performing and reporting properly before we have it deployed for real.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have other solarwinds products this is a good addition. They are also adding a bit more application monitoring (using an agent) in to SAM, which is nice. NPM is still their strongest offering. Support has gotten worse over the past few years though, and SolarWinds as a whole seems to be branching out in many (too many?) directions.
Solarwinds SAM @ Western Reserve Hospital
What do you like best about the product?
The monitoring setup is straight forward and easy to setup.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am very happy with Solarwinds and there isn't much I dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it alert us of unexpected downtimes. We use it restart services after maintenance windows so admins do not have to be on site.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend this product to any one who is requiring monitoring of the servers in their environment. It is easy to setup with great grouping options and custom fields.
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.
My opinions on SAM
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to drill down to the top 10 processes by various factors such as physical memory, cpu, load, and I/O reads. It also alerts you if your server warranty is about to expire, which is great if you have hundreds of servers to keep up with
What do you dislike about the product?
No details on the 'applications with problems' box, not a big deal as you can click on the applications to get more info. This isn't a big deal as you can click on the problematic application and find out plenty of details, but being able to scan over them without leaving the page would also be nice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps isolate various server-related issues without digging through the event viewer inside of windows. This has also expedited the time to resolve the various issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's great and worth the money. From a cost perspective, it saves us money.
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!
Solarwinds NTA is a good basic netflow product
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ability to use the search bar to quickly find end points and where the traffic traverses across our monitored gear.
What do you dislike about the product?
Flows are "bursty" and sometimes inaccurate. Example: Sampling rate of 1:1 will show the same rate at 1:100, there seems to be no difference. Many times, flows are counted twice. So, a 100 meg pipe will show 200 meg of traffic- impossible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
File system transfers for some of our critical data can eat up bandwidth. Using NTA and NTA alerting allows us to see visual ques and when traffic is "ramping up" . This enables our team to anticipate or identify the root cause (and proof of the issue).
SolarWinds Unified Server and Application harmony
What do you like best about the product?
I love that this integrates into our existing SolarWinds Orion environment to give a true single pane of glass into your environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
As with many of SolarWinds products, there is a learning curve to truly use the product to it's full potential.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using SAM helped us monitor and support unique applicaitons in our environment that traditional monitoring solutions weren't able to support.
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