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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor vs. Splunk AppDynamics

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

657 Reviews and Ratings

Splunk AppDynamics

246 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Splunk AppDynamics

    Score8.2 out of 10
    		N/AAppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.N/A
    Pricing
    SolarWinds Server & Application MonitorSplunk AppDynamics
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSAM pricing starts at $2,995.—
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    SolarWinds
    Mike Hochstein
    Senior Director, Infrastructure Architecture & Standards in Information Technology at Cision (Public Relations & Communications, 1001-5000 employees)
    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
    Rafael Santos
    Monitoring Specialist in Information Technology at Fleetcor (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
    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
    Nikhil Kumar Sharma
    Associate Consultant in Engineering at HCL Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Devbrath Pant
    Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Infosys (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    We selected SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor over AppDynamics because SolarWinds product suited our needs better. We needed better infrastructure monitoring and internal application monitoring brought from other vendors. If we wanted to monitor an application that was …
    Incentivized
    Glenn Kimball
    Advisor in Information Technology at Undisclosed (NDA) (Entertainment, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    SolarWinds stacks up better than most due to its available ecosystem of tools. As they align, consolidate and integrate, the full value will be realized.
    Incentivized
    Joe Parlett
    Programmer Analyst in Information Technology at USD (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    It was already purchased for me to use.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Nagios and Rancid are used internally by a company that was acquired last year. They're a big open source group.

    Other groups also use HostMonitor, Big Brother, and a couple of home grown tools that don't really stack up. Those groups don't want to change the way they do …
    Incentivized
    Cisco
    Verified User
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDymanics and Solarwinds was a good products at application and website monitoring. For SQL monitoring AppDymanics was the superior product is it found several queries that were slowing down the server while Solarwinds could not find any issues. The version of Nagios that we …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    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 MonitorSplunk AppDynamics
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor and Splunk AppDynamics
    Feature
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    8.6
    276 Ratings
    Splunk AppDynamics
    8.5
    74 Ratings
    Application monitoring8.9266 Ratings9.474 Ratings
    Database monitoring8.4230 Ratings8.071 Ratings
    Threshold alerts8.9271 Ratings8.872 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities8.2215 Ratings7.771 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.2239 Ratings8.971 Ratings
    Collaboration tools7.7148 Ratings7.659 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications7.8256 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.5216 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring8.8234 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring9.8269 Ratings8.544 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting9.1250 Ratings8.842 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery9.0199 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    SolarWinds Server & Application MonitorSplunk AppDynamics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (278 ratings)
    8.6
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    8.5
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)