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    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.N/A
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    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Editions & Modules
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    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSAM pricing starts at $2,995.
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    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Considered Both Products
    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Nagios requires far more manual work to configure than SolarWinds does, though that also encourages customization and perfect-fit solutions. Nagios also requires far, far fewer resources to run than SolarWinds: SolarWinds wants great gobs of memory and disk, while Nagios is …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    It has been a while since we first purchased SolarWinds, but I looked over several other products that I can't remember now. Many other products tried to scan the network to find computers but given that our computers are located in various places across campus with other …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is able to provide 90% of the functionality my business requires. SolarWinds is able to scale out functionality by purchasing additional modules to meet the individual needs of its customers. While this functionality provides …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    We choose SAM instead of Site 24x7 because of the facility to handle API calls. Site 24x7 doesn't have a friendly dashboard as SAM has.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    SolarWinds is cost-effective, we have a great solution provider that helps us with tool integrations and maintenance, the integration capability and extensive documentation also help a lot in the ability to use it in various monitoring models and scripts.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    We also evaluated Nagios Core as a free alternative but being free it could not be trusted to be secure, and it was very difficult to add and manage devices.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Solarwinds Server & Application Monitor is a great comprehensive monitoring solution. It covers all aspects of monitoring your infrastructure via a modular approach. While other applications can be slightly better at asset management or monitoring one specific application or …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    PRGT Network Monitor seems to be very good, initially, but, in our experience, when we reached close to 100 devices, the system kept crashing and behaving erratic. Prometheus was missing many features and required some CLI scripting and the GUI was years behind SolarWinds. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    SolarWinds Pingdom and AppOptics [are] full-fledged Application Performance Management Tools. [SolarWinds] SAM provides Server and Application Monitoring using [SolarWinds] SAM templates, [but] it does miss out on APM capabilities which other APM solutions offer.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    In comparison to Spiceworks [Connectivity Dashboard,] SolarWinds [has] way [more] features and [an] easy-to-use system. ManageEngine [Application Control Plus] also provides a good look [at the] dashboard but needs a lot more enhancements when it comes to real-time monitoring. P…
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    This is the best look into our system as compared to others. It also allows much more in-depth looks into our system.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Very user friendly console, very powerful products, ease configuration
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Went straight to SAM as already NPM users
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    In the past, we had tested other monitoring products yet none compared to the features that one fines in Server & Application Monitor (SAM).
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    I have used WhatsUp, Nagios, and Zabbix. Very similar in ease of use to WhatsUp, but missing some features of the Zabbix and Nagios XI on the nix side of the house.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    We haven't really looked at any competitors. We've been happy Solarwinds customers for 5+ years and continue to leverage this tool today.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    because of the easy and fast implementation, and easy administration
    Incentivized
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    I have only used SolarWinds
    Incentivized
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    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    I can safely say SolarWinds comes up on top versus the individual products we used in the past. SolarWinds was selected because of its ease of use, its visual layout which allows you to easily and quickly browse through the information its currently providing for a monitored …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Event Sentry was the previous product we relied on for monitoring and alerts. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor simply has more features, is more comprehensive, has a better use interface, [and] has better support and knowledge base behind it while not being cost …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Being from the same company it is possible all these modules are compatible with each other
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    I have tried and researched many products including Cacti, Zabbix, Dynatrace, as far as I have read the best crafted product among them is SolarWinds. [Already], SolarWinds company is the most successful company that has proven itself in issues such as monitoring and logging.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Solarwinds Server and Application monitor is my first choice of tools preferred for server and application infrastructure monitoring because of the following reasons -
    1. Single product to offer on-prem, hosted, cloud monitoring
    2. Single Product to offer Server, Database and …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Feature
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    8.6
    276 Ratings
    Application monitoring8.9266 Ratings
    Database monitoring8.4230 Ratings
    Threshold alerts8.9271 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities8.2215 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.2239 Ratings
    Collaboration tools7.7148 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications7.8256 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.5216 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring8.8234 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring9.8269 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting9.1250 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery9.0199 Ratings
    User Ratings
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (278 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    Availability
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    4.5
    (2 ratings)