What is SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor?
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is designed to monitor your applications and their supporting infrastructure, whether running on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Don’t let slow applications and downtime impact your end users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack.
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85 Likeliness to Recommend
89 Plan to Renew
76 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Inspires Innovation
- Caring
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Feature Ratings
Access Rights Management
Storage Monitoring
Patching Automation
Auto-Discovery
Network Performance Management
Centralized Dashboard
Server Performance Monitoring
Event Correlation & Management
Applications Monitoring
Deployment Model
Capacity Management
Vendor Capability Ratings
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Implementation
Availability and Quality of Training
Quality of Features
Vendor Support
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Business Value Created
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Ease of Data Integration
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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Reviews
Tibor K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2022
Curated dashboard as well as good system metrics
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor from other similar products?
It allows monitoring and handling all of the cloud computing services and the organization's complete infrastructure from a single place. This helps ensure the availability of apps and services operating on complex and dispersed infrastructure
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Gives us the ability to create dashboards that show our data in a stunning visual format. Their alerting system allows us to link alerts to several notification services
What do you dislike most about this product?
Rather than a pay-as-you-go pricing plan like its competitors, SolarWinds has a pricey one-time licensing fee, but the functions are excellent and not limited in scope or breadth
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Scalable Application Performance Management platform that includes agents that automatically monitor applications, producing both application performance metrics and detailed distributed transaction traces
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Glenn I.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Communications
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
All your monitoring needs
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor from other similar products?
Very powerful tool for monitoring and alerting
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The custom alerts and SMTP traps
What do you dislike most about this product?
can create a lot of 'noise' in the dashboard
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Review others on market like SCOM before deciding on Solarwinds
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Saves Time
- Respectful
- Altruistic
ALPER S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
an integrated excellent infrastructure tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor from other similar products?
I can say that the application is multi-layered and integrated with the infrastructure. With the application, not only network and system infrastructure managements; An application integrated with virtualization management, security management, database management and help desk solutions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It allows you to monitor and manage your network without exhausting your network over protocols and standards such as SNMP, Netflow and WMI. It allows you to manage network performance and availability through a simple interface with instant and long-term information retrieval. In addition, it allows you to analyze the traffic in your network infrastructure end-to-end with (Deep Packet Inspection), Netflow, port management features. It allows you to manage your servers (multi-vendor), products that can manage with policy, virtualized environments such as vmWare, Hyper-V, on a single platform.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I don't have any negative reviews. I have said before, I am sharing with you my product information that I have seen and experienced positively.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would definitely recommend the product. There is also a similar (zabbix) application. My suggestion is that you research this app and choose this app (solarwinds). an app that deserves it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
