InfluxDB vs. SolarWinds Observability

InfluxDB

SolarWinds Observability

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
InfluxDB	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	The InfluxDB is a time series database from InfluxData headquartered in San Francisco. As an observability solution, it is designed to provide real-time visibility into stacks, sensors and systems. It is available open source, via the Cloud as a DBaaS option, or through an Enterprise subscription.	N/A
SolarWinds Observability	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds Observability is a SaaS offering purpose-built to enable DevOps teams to have unified and correlated end-to-end visibility across the technology stack, from the infrastructure, database and application to the end-user experience. It helps organizations meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and user satisfaction service-level objectives (SLOs). The observability offering helps make it easy to understand and has holistic oversight into service delivery and the individual component…	$60 per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*)

Pricing

InfluxDB

SolarWinds Observability

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Logs: $60
per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*)
Digital Experience Observability - Synthetics: $120
per year Packs of 10 uptime checks
Infrastructure Observability: $180
per year Per Host (Containers 10:1 Host)
Network Observability: $180
per year Per active network device (With an IP address)
Application Observability: $330
per year Application Instance
Database Observability: $840
per year Per physical or virtual database instance

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
InfluxDB	SolarWinds Observability
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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*Log retention available in 1, 7, 15, 30, and 60 days (for more than 60 days retention, talk to sales).

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Community Pulse
	InfluxDB	SolarWinds Observability
Considered Both Products	InfluxDB Verified User Anonymous Chose InfluxDB We have looked around to find different options we had when we first started to move to cloud. At that time, the options we had is Google Cloud BigTable and InfluxDB. But quickly we realized that InfluxDB is the database specialized in time series database and performs better … Incentivized Helpful? Jonathan Yarbor CEO & Co-Founder Chose InfluxDB InfluxDB is much easier to initially setup and scale compared to Graphite (now known as Whisper). With a smaller team we found Graphite too much overhead that would make operational support a significant blocker or generation of technical debt. Incentivized Helpful? Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Chose InfluxDB To be honest, I didn't look at alternatives since InfluxDB performs very well if you can oversee the lack of security and HA features. But for all challenges, there is an easy solution which brings you forward (e.g. read load balancing can be achieved by using a common HTTPS … Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Observability No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
	InfluxDB	SolarWinds Observability
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	InfluxDB Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	No answers on this topic	Logz.io Score 7.0 out of 10
Enterprises	No answers on this topic	NetBrain Technologies Score 9.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	InfluxDB	SolarWinds Observability
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	InfluxDB	SolarWinds Observability
Likelihood to Recommend	InfluxDB is a time series database and should be used in that intent. Each data ingestion streams should be properly configured to ensure optimal database performance. InfluxDB works very well but like any other databases requires maintenance and tuning. We have been using the TICK stack and are very happy with the results. Incentivized SA Stephane Abitbol Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Time series data Very fast queries Many options to configure and tune database Incentivized SA Stephane Abitbol Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Small, but growing community - This database engine's community is much smaller than alternatives. This can make finding a DBA or support less easy, but not impossible. Documentation could be improved - The docs for getting started don't effectively lead first-time users to understand how the underlying systems are designed. Performance Analysis - There seems to be a lack of tools to give context to slow queries or other performance issues Out-of-the-box security - The out of the box security is designed to operate in an internal network and is limited. Incentivized Jonathan Yarbor CEO & Co-Founder Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	InfluxDB is a near perfect product for time series database engines. The relatively small list of cons are heavily outweighed by it's ability to just work and be a very flexible and powerful database engine. The community and support provided by the corporation are the only areas I have little experience. Incentivized Jonathan Yarbor CEO & Co-Founder Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	We have worked with the InfluxDB support team a few times so far and it has been positive. Issues submitted are worked on promptly and we have good feedback. Incentivized SA Stephane Abitbol Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	We have looked around to find different options we had when we first started to move to cloud. At that time, the options we had is Google Cloud BigTable and InfluxDB. But quickly we realized that InfluxDB is the database specialized in time series database and performs better than other options we have. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Provided us a time series DB. With the SQL-like language, it is very easy to learn. Empowered us to keep track of our events. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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