SolarWinds Observability SaaS
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Awesome tool for monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Solarwinds is very powerful tool to provide all relevant information as it gives CPU memory disk blocking, ling running queries. We also used it's customized version DPA.
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't found any flaws yet. It has everything we need, it would be best if task manager details could be added to this system
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Past activity to perform RCA, even I use to identify unused databases, blockings etc
Great monitoring softeare
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use, gives good details on the servers
What do you dislike about the product?
Could use more server watching details.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Needing to be notified when a server is not working
My staff is annoyed with how much I love Solarwinds products!
What do you like best about the product?
I love the way data is presented to me in a way that I can keep an eye on my environment at a glance.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like more flexibility in creating dashboards, as well as the ability to upgrade without taking my monitoring environment down
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can catch issues either before they become problems, or immediately thereafter. So we can improve my customer experience.
Monitoring Master Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of NPM is the amount of customization and notification that can be done. The ability to either dive deep into services or routes or just see if the device is pinging is great. The notification settings that can be customized assists with the ability to separate the alerting to various groups within an organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up SNMP alerting is a bit harder than I first expected, but once the first few were figured out, it became easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problems being solved were being notified of issues. Once I was able to get the snmp traps built and notifications set around those traps, things went very smoothly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The product is very well created and maintained. For the best results, one should be adequately already familiar with like products to set it up properly. That being said, the support team is superb at assisting every step of the way. The product is expensive but very well worth it.
View of a network engineer
What do you like best about the product?
View of performance of interfaces. And adding thresholds if they go underline.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it isn't really good. But this can be a lack in my knowledge.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can monitor interface utilization and report to our customer to provide better performance.
I use this everyday!
What do you like best about the product?
Very intuitive interface. Easy to navigate and teach yourself.
What do you dislike about the product?
At certain times there can be performance/ lag issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring and Management
NPM - always have an answer for your network monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of NPM or SolarWinds is its simple monitoring configuration for straightforward administration. It's an enterprise-level monitoring system that also integrates with other modules. It provides comprehensive information for monitoring and is very easy to implement. It starts monitoring from the moment it is implemented with all default configurations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, end users or non-admin users come to me and say that it's difficult to get reports or information in SolarWinds. From an end user's perspective, I can understand the frustration, as in other tools it's just one or two clicks away. However, in SolarWinds, I know it's an enterprise and powerful tool, and sometimes you need to drill down to get simple information.
Another aspect that is needed is topology, so end users can visualize the monitoring system and understand at a glance what is wrong and where the issue is.
I think the dashboard is a place where, if we have an automated topology kind of dashboard or a single pane of dashboard, it would look great.
The newly added NetPath service is great, but sometimes I get requests to have a point-to-point path, meaning from one IP to another IP.
On the network overview, it only has monitored interfaces, but if it included all interfaces, it would be easier to choose what to monitor.
Another aspect that is needed is topology, so end users can visualize the monitoring system and understand at a glance what is wrong and where the issue is.
I think the dashboard is a place where, if we have an automated topology kind of dashboard or a single pane of dashboard, it would look great.
The newly added NetPath service is great, but sometimes I get requests to have a point-to-point path, meaning from one IP to another IP.
On the network overview, it only has monitored interfaces, but if it included all interfaces, it would be easier to choose what to monitor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are monitoring all network devices, and it's helping us to perform proactive monitoring or to detect issues much faster.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for enterprise-level monitoring, then SolarWinds is the right choice.
One monitor to rule them All
What do you like best about the product?
Solarwinds NPM is a stable, rugged platform for monitoring most all your enterprise needs. There are many bells and whistles that are purposeful and meaningful for most all your issues and needs. High customization, that is easy, is a plus to any organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
NPM can be a little hard to manage on older versions of Windows, but is easily fixed in most situations. Upgrades were difficult in the past, but solarwinds has put much work into making this easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Out of the box reporting is very helpful to add visibility to our organization management and end users. Easy integration with servicenow allows us to alert out quickly and effectively around the clock, 365 days a year.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get Loop1 consulting if you have a complex environment.
NPM is Awesome!!
What do you like best about the product?
It allow us to see the overall health of our infrastructure.From switch ports / latency to wireless client connection.
What do you dislike about the product?
Upgrade need to be easier. It need to provide more flexibility more other network vendor
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitor in a single pane of glass
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The initial setup can be long and time consuming. Be preparer
Exceptionally dynamic product for monitoring enterprise networks (large or small)
What do you like best about the product?
100 nodes or 100,000+ nodes the out of the box ability to monitor node, and interface status and availability, network latency, bandwidth utilization, interface errors and discards, CPU and memory utilization plus with the flexibility of Universal device pollers any feature/service of a device not listed above via SNMP. Even the most complex conditions for alerts are easy to create and modify. Web based intuitive reports for use in real-time as well as historical problem analysis and capacity planning. Automated device discoveries make this product a true breeze to maintain day-to-day. Built in auditing trail answers the administrative "who did what" questions fast. Is your infrastructure a vast mix of vendors? SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor has them covered, if not they will with an available monthly MIB update. Very active and involved user community at Thwack.com, got a question or trying something new search for it or ask it there a user / product developer or the product owner from SolarWinds may answer the same day. Solve a challenging issue in your environment, share it with the user community.
What do you dislike about the product?
Runs only on a windows platform and has to write some log files to the OS drive.
Pro-tip: Workaround available for the one thing I dislike.
Pro-tip: Workaround available for the one thing I dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Clients experiencing and complaining of poor business application response caused by clients at the same location over utilizing network bandwidth for non-business activities.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Excellent 30 day evaluation is the full blown product
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