Nice product to start SaaS journey with SolarWinds
Rating: 10 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
ipMonitor is being used to monitor the availability of network devices, servers and services remotely. Although, SolarWinds ipMonitor is not being used much our customers there are very few which are using still this is not a bad feedback since SolarWinds has other monitoring products are are quite effective and hence ipMonitor is very less used.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
ipMonitor is well suited where there is a requirement of SaaS based fault and availability monitoring requirement and where customers do not want to purchase heavy hardware's and software to run the show. All they have to do is to subscribe ipMonitor plan and start monitoring using the simple monitoring wizard. It also has a feature of auto remediation and hence much useful
Alternatives
LogicMonitor, SevOne, OpsRamp and ScienceLogic SL1
Although there are very less SaaS based tools available in the market, SolarWinds is somewhere in middle as compared to other tools such as LogicMonitor and ScienceLogic. Reason being the timing of the product launch and features enhancement. However current capabilities in SolarWinds SaaS products is improving day by day still it requires some more time to become a mature product including ipMonitor. Appoptics is doing great but the competitors are doing much better in terms of marketing, feature set etc.