#1 most frequent
United States of America
58.9%33 installations of 56
What is SolarWinds ipMonitor?
SolarWinds ipMonitor is a lightweight performance monitoring tool. It enables monitoring from a single console and out-of-the-box visibility, with some automation available.
Categories & Use Cases
Media
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Top Performing Features
Alerts
Alerts warning of critical infrastructure component failure can be sent via email or SMS or other channel
Category average: 9
Network monitoring
Monitoring network device availability and performance indicators like bandwidth, packet loss, CPU, WAN links, etc.
Category average: 8.9
Automated network device discovery
Automated network device discovery allows all devices in the environment to be found and tracked
Category average: 8.3
Areas for Improvement
Network mapping
Dynamic mapping tool allows the network topology to be mapped showing performance metrics, and link connection and utilization
Category average: 7.8
Customizable reports
Ability to schedule, generate, and deliver custom performance and availability reports
Category average: 7.2
Who Buys & Uses SolarWinds ipMonitor
#2 most frequent
Canada
8.9%5 installations of 56
#3 most frequent
France
5.4%3 installations of 56
Awesome Software for Network Monitoring!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SolarWinds ipMonitor is simple to administer and has a significant effect on the organization. It is simple to monitor the various IP addresses found inside the organization, and there is no need to do any kind of manual inspection. This tool is a game-changer for the IT sector. Downtime caused by failures may be mitigated using this solution's automatic remediation to restore services, which might include restarting servers, restoring files, and more.
Pros
- Both network devices and servers may be easily located on the network.
- It notifies the user whenever any network device undergoes a change in status.
- Powerful reporting capabilities that provide vital data about your network's devices (uptime, space, utilization of resources on your devices)
Cons
- This is a complex system that requires extensive testing and verification prior to deployment.
- It is little costly as compared to other software's.
Most Important Features
- The best feature of this software is it bandwidth monitoring feature.
- Email Monitoring
- Network Analysis
Return on Investment
- It saves us a lot of time and improves the quality of our work.
Alternatives Considered
Datadog, Dynatrace and Microsoft System Center
Other Software Used
PagerDuty, xMatters, Microsoft System Center
ipMonitor is perfect for large scale monitoring tool
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have deployed all our EC2 instances on Amazon and ipMonitor was used to monitor all the instances. ipMonitor is a very responsive tool in terms of monitoring your resources. We had in-house and cloud-based resources which were monitored through ipMonitor and the best part was the responsiveness. We were monitoring the server health checks with storage and resources usage through ipMonitor.
Pros
- Server Health Checks
- Website responses
- Applications monitoring
Cons
- Costing
- Scope of monitoring must be customised
- SNMP configuration needs to be more simple
Most Important Features
- Cloud monitoring
- Can be used to monitor on-prem servers as well
- Applications and websites monitoring
Return on Investment
- Cost was much higher than the services
- ipMonitor was well suited but the costing factor wasn't justified as there are tons of open-source tools available in the market with more functionalities
- Alerts response was very good and ipMonitor served well with health checks.
Alternatives Considered
Zabbix, CSI WatchDOG and Amazon CloudWatch
Other Software Used
Zabbix, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Route 53
SolarWinds ipMonitor Review
Pros
- network Monitroing
- Servers and Services Monitoring
- Alerting and reports
- Modern Dashboard
Cons
- More custom capabilities of monitoring
- Detailed network monitoring such as for netflow
- Integration with 3rd party tools
- integration with native SolarWinds on-premises products
Return on Investment
- Underlying monitoring infrastructure management is not required
- Single place to monitor network, servers and services
- native integration with SaaS based SolarWinds products
Alternatives Considered
ManageEngine OpManager, SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM) and Micro Focus Network Node Manager i (formerly HP Network Node Manager)
Other Software Used
SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM), DX Spectrum (formerly CA Spectrum), Micro Focus Network Node Manager i (formerly HP Network Node Manager)
Usability
Good network mapping software held back by some outdated design choices
Pros
- Gives quite some in-depth information about computer performance (CPU, disk, memory)
- Shows known issues with critical processes on desktops
- Easy to use and set up
Cons
- The user interface is quite outdated
- Scans sometimes take a very long time
- It has a bit too many configuration options
Return on Investment
- It allows us to immediately detect rogue devices in our network
- It allows us to verify computer performance with any problems our employees encounter
Alternatives Considered
Pulseway and Atera
Other Software Used
GitLab, Icinga, Nmap
Usability
Nice product to start SaaS journey with SolarWinds
Pros
- Simple monitoring configuration wizard
- Out of the box alerts
- SaaS Service
- Built in reports and dashboard
Cons
- Lack of integrated visibility with other infrastructure since they are being monitored separately
- Product uniqueness is missing
- in-built integration with major services are required
- cloud infra monitoring integration is missing
Return on Investment
- SaaS based service helped to from infra management
- Out of the box monitoring for infra and services
- custom and inbuilt reporting and alerting feature
- lack of integration with other monitoring product of SolarWinds is the only minus
Alternatives Considered
LogicMonitor, SevOne, OpsRamp and ScienceLogic SL1
Other Software Used
LogicMonitor, ScienceLogic SL1, OpsRamp
