SolarWinds Observability SaaS
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Easy to install and add new devices
What do you like best about the product?
Solarwinds is very easy to use and learn; Very simple process to add any network objects in the monitoring system; GUI is best so far compare to other competitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
Price - expensive compare to other tools in the market. For small businesses, this is very expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
24*7 monitoring of customer networks;
Providing best customer service by using solarwinds;
Providing best customer service by using solarwinds;
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need a tool that has all features with less bugs and more security, go with Solarwinds;
Does what it is advertised to do
What do you like best about the product?
Very useful tool to automatically a scan large number of subnets and the option to import CSV files rather than having to manually enter in each subnet for scanning. A good dynamic alternative to tracking basic IP address assignment/usage than say a spreadsheet. It's easy to use, tracks historical records of IP addresses from the most recent scan and allows comments to be added to each.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's isn't much to not like about this product since it's made for a fairly specific purpose (IP address management) and it does what it was made to do. It would be nice if the subnet scanner can also process host names or fully qualified domain names rather than strictly IP addresses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use this application as a tool to track IP address usage for a large number of subnets; some are DHCP-enabled while others are not. A lot of times when workstations with statically-assigned IP addresses are decommissioned, the IP address database may not be updated. Over time, a large number of dormant IP addresses will remain in the database, which becomes challenging when the number of available addresses in a given subnet runs low,. This tools allows us to locate these dormant IP addresses and make them available for use again.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The IP Address Tracker is a free alternative to the full-fledged IP Address Manager for users wanting to scan subnets manually and only requiring basic IP address management.
Solarwinds
What do you like best about the product?
It is able to monitor every device in your company and check for high cpu utilization, low memory, failures and errors. As well as make backups of all your devices
What do you dislike about the product?
The Gui could be a little more organized
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to monitor all your devices and ensure that they are running well
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great monitoring tool. Does everything you would want a monitoring tool to do.
Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor
What do you like best about the product?
The features I like the most about this tool are the fast and easy deployment and the high quality monitoring and alerting. Very nice UI, also very scalable. NPM has a lot of customization and notification that can be done
What do you dislike about the product?
The element base pricing is very expensive, can quickly escalade.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This tool helps prevent major Server downtimes with a great alert system. Every System Administrator should have this. I can't count the number of times it has saved me.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I've tried many different monitoring tools and nothing comes close to this one. I hate to repeat myself but the UI is simply amazing!
Great logging solution - easy to deploy as cloud based, good features, reasonable price
What do you like best about the product?
Very quick and easy to deploy in the cloud. It seems like the product was designed from early on to live in a multi-tenant cloud solution.
The features are very focused on troubleshooting. The filtering is very good, and one of my favorite features is their "view surrounding events" option which lets you look at all the events before/after a specific event that you find.
I really like their built in feature that archives all data to AWS S3 even though there is a limited amount of data available via the web UI (14 days default). This has been critical a few times we had to go find something from a few months back.
Built in capabilities for saved searches and notifications is good.
The features are very focused on troubleshooting. The filtering is very good, and one of my favorite features is their "view surrounding events" option which lets you look at all the events before/after a specific event that you find.
I really like their built in feature that archives all data to AWS S3 even though there is a limited amount of data available via the web UI (14 days default). This has been critical a few times we had to go find something from a few months back.
Built in capabilities for saved searches and notifications is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
Web interface can be a little slow at times but is overall reliable. Volume pricing is pretty flexible to account for some peak days but could potentially be even more flexible to allow for irregular traffic.
They have a policy that will eventually drop data if you far exceed your volume multiple times. This is overall reasonable, but it would be nice to have an option where the data is perhaps saved but not available for searching.
The interface to saved searches could be better, as it shows some limitations once you have a lot of saved searches.
They have a policy that will eventually drop data if you far exceed your volume multiple times. This is overall reasonable, but it would be nice to have an option where the data is perhaps saved but not available for searching.
The interface to saved searches could be better, as it shows some limitations once you have a lot of saved searches.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We provide a multi-channel marketing platform for retailers and brands. Our platform is deployed in AWS and we have log data from several types of application sources. Loggly helps consolidate all this log data and lets multiple people on the team search and organize the data in order to troubleshoot specific problems and ensure that our platform is operating correctly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Excellent solution for debug log management and analysis from different sources.
Gone with the old in with the new
What do you like best about the product?
One of the biggest changes in NTA is the new chart styles. Gone are the old static charts, instead NTA now has charts that can be dynamically changed for custom date ranges on the fly using a sliding scale below the chart.Checkboxes allow to turn on or off the display of different chart elements, making it easy to simplify the view by removing unwanted data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not available as standalone product – Orion Network Performance Monitor required
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring the bandwidth utilization for better QOS assignment.
Orion monitoring is a helpful aid for monitoring our environment.
What do you like best about the product?
Notification system is excellent. Orion offers up fast notifications when it detects something different than the rules we set.
Lots of notifications are offered - IE, reboot warnings, offline machines, resources and data shares getting a certain % to capacity. So easy to choose what notifications apply to where, etc.
How easy we can configure user access (using AD authentication).
Configure actions to occur (like restarting services) on certain problematic servers and software.
Lots of notifications are offered - IE, reboot warnings, offline machines, resources and data shares getting a certain % to capacity. So easy to choose what notifications apply to where, etc.
How easy we can configure user access (using AD authentication).
Configure actions to occur (like restarting services) on certain problematic servers and software.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although the notifications are super handy, sometimes the emails will continue to spam. For example, if a resource hits 80% to capacity, and increases again by a few MBs, another notification will spam you.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Machine and data share monitoring for computer / server objects and data resources. Spams emails to our staff to notify when something is awry. Allows pro-active notifications to resolve issues potentially before they happen.
Can also involve non-technical teams that may look after certain products. We can notify them without having to grant them access to server resources. Or allow them to engage a technical resource for troubleshooting.
Can also involve non-technical teams that may look after certain products. We can notify them without having to grant them access to server resources. Or allow them to engage a technical resource for troubleshooting.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking at this product, start pro-actively documenting what resources you need to monitor, and what about them you want to monitor.
Works but could be more user friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Allows customization
Bandwidth and utilization on the network links can be monitored for a period of time and can be easily customized based on interfaces.
give a overall view of several statistics on a single page in a grid view.
several items can be monitored at the same time
Bandwidth and utilization on the network links can be monitored for a period of time and can be easily customized based on interfaces.
give a overall view of several statistics on a single page in a grid view.
several items can be monitored at the same time
What do you dislike about the product?
hard to keep track of down nodes,one pops over another,could be tied to a ticketing tool to auto generate tickets on certain links of nodes being monitored.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
network management
I have used SolarWinds for over 1 yr now. Once you get past the learning curve, it works great!
What do you like best about the product?
The parts of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor that i like the best is that it is so customize-able. You can create so many different custom monitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
What i disliked the most was trying to grasp the work flow and how things worked it can seem complicated at times until you understand what exactly its doing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We monitor over 100 servers with many customization's. We now feel secure that we have a better grasp on our infrastructure. We now have a 24/7 monitoring in place and have had next to no issues with the product.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
dont give up on learning how to use it. keep at it!
Great monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
The email alerts are great for after-hours notifications. I also like that it is able to automatically restart services.
What do you dislike about the product?
The SolarWinds agent service reports an unknown state periodically which generates false alarms. We have to connect to the server and manually restart the service to resolve them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it for monitoring enterprise level multi-tier environments. This has been very helpful in allowing us to increase both the number of environments that we are able to monitor and the level of monitoring without requiring any additional staff.
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