SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor vs eG Enterprise comparison

eg Innovations and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. eg Innovations is ranked #36 with an average rating of 8.5, while SolarWinds is ranked #20 with an average rating of 7.4. eg Innovations holds a 0.3% mindshare in APM, compared to SolarWinds’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of eg Innovations users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

eG Enterprise and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor are popular choices for server and application monitoring. SolarWinds seems to have the upper hand due to its broader range of integrations and extensive feature set.

Features: eG Enterprise offers end-to-end monitoring, detailed performance metrics, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities. SolarWinds provides extensive integration capabilities, ease of use, and scalability.

Room for Improvement: eG Enterprise can improve its reporting functionality, simplify its configuration process, and refine usability features. SolarWinds users mention the need for a more modern feel, enhanced alert customization, and room for interface updates.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: eG Enterprise is known for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. SolarWinds, while easy to deploy, sometimes necessitates additional configuration but excels in customer service.

Pricing and ROI: eG Enterprise is regarded as cost-effective with favorable ROI due to its depth of insights. SolarWinds users find the product worth the higher price owing to its extensive features.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

eG Enterprise

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

36th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (54th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (45th)

SolarWinds Server and Appli...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

20th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (11th), Active Directory Management (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of eG Enterprise is 0.3%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is 1.5%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Jose Ramon Crespo

Senior Enterprise Director at Towers IT

Utilize artificial intelligence for faster issue response and seamless ITSM integration

The data gathering capabilities and the automation, which utilizes artificial intelligence, are the most valuable features. These capabilities help us gather more information and analyze it faster, leading to better responses to issues. The tool is also excellent at integrating with ITSM services, providing a seamless alerting system for our customers.

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VIVEK PATHAK

Solutions Architect at Airtel

Offering reasonably good dashboarding features but needs to improve the application performance monitoring

My company uses Riverbed for application performance monitoring. I was doing research so that I could understand if SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor provide APM capabilities similar to Riverbed, which allows our company to get a packet capture of an entire session, and on the basis of it, we look at the application performance monitoring part. With SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, my company does SNMP polling, so it can drag an entire session, but it focuses more on availability, CPU memory, and server connection status. In Riverbed, my company catches an entire system, so when we deal with two applications, we have end-to-end app visibility. All the application monitoring happens through Riverbed. Our company's main problem is that, as of now, we have two different products in our organization, and we don't want to continue with the multiple products currently. I wanted to understand if SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor already have capabilities like Riverbed, and if they do, then I wanted to figure out why our company should not go with SolarWinds and why we are using products from multiple vendors. My company needs to continue with either Riverbed or SolarWinds. I wanted to see which products are good for the organization and how much I want to continue with Riverbed.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"User session details"

"The most important feature is the ability to design, then implement monitoring tests on the fly as we are adapting to different situations."

"EG monitors all infrastructure elements (all OS, all database, storage, network, and web server) from a single console."

"Single pane of glass to review status of the full environment."

"eG Enterprise has a single pane of glass for observability and monitoring."

"Some of the best features of eG are, in terms of APM, they have complete modules between application performance monitoring, server monitoring, and even storage and network-based monitoring. The UI is also quite good. They have some standard AI-based capabilities, even though it's not quite as advanced when compared to Dynatrace. eG has some good, basic APM capabilities."

"What I like about eG Enterprise is that it's easy to use. It's a simple product. You can get up to seventy-five to eighty percent of the required information based on real user experience and diagnostics."

"The auto-configuration or auto-Thresholding is very important because it saves a phenomenal amount of labor and setup costs and time."

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"We use the solution as a central monitoring tool. We use it to monitor every transaction that has a relation to the organization’s infrastructure."

"SolarWinds SAM has significantly improved our workflow by allowing us to develop a comprehensive knowledge base of known errors and automate responses to specific alerts."

"The solution can be deployed quickly."

"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."

"The most beneficial aspect of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its ability to monitor at the application level."

"Identifying the problem statement is easy."

"Management Console - Managing service to each server enrolled in the Solarwinds is much easier. Using a web base console, you can control your service much convenient way. There is no need to login remotely. It save a lot of time and effort."

"The graphical interfaces, GUI customizations, and alert configurations are impressive."

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Cons

"The integration must be improved."

"There should be more price flexibility to adapt to different kinds of customers. For small and medium businesses, eG Enterprise is usually too expensive."

"The solution needs to enhance the management dashboards."

"The UI looks a little dated and could do with a refresh."

"In terms of areas for improvement in eG Enterprise, we are now moving most of our services to the OpenShift platform, and we need a way to monitor even containerized services or any service deployed on OpenShift, but that feature is still not available in eG Enterprise, so it's not good enough for us."

"Back-end configuration is not easy to implement."

"Needs to improve the networking monitor capabilities."

"The interface could be improved as it is not real intuitive. It is not user-friendly."

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"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."

"Application-based monitoring, such as monitoring within servers like Apache and IIS, has room for improvement."

"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."

"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."

"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."

"Reporting is the only thing with which we currently have challenges. They have this in two ways. There is the report writer, which is the backend, and we also have web reports, which are on the console. So, they have removed the report writer for the backend reports, and we are making use of the web console, but most of the users are not finding it very interesting to use the frontend reports. I would like them to bring back the report writer. That's the key area within it to improve on the reporting. If they can bring back the report writer, then most users will actually be comfortable. I have some customers who are trying to export their report to an Excel format, but it is not possible because they said any report that has been done from the web console cannot be exported to Excel, but most of the customers need to export their reports to Excel. That's one area they need to work on."

"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."

"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We paid about 300,000 Saudi Riyal for the solution and it was quite affordable compared to the competition."

"There are two licensing options: Perpetual and SaaS-based. The main offering, in terms of what eG prefers to offer, is the subscription-based rather than the Perpetual License. The price could be cheaper."

"If using eG for virtual desktops, carefully calculate whether per named user, per concurrent user, or per server"

"The product is very cheap."

"They are aligned with other enterprise solutions."

"It'd be nice if the price was lower. That would be an improvement."

"eG Enterprise is much cheaper than the other products it competes with."

"They gave us a good price, when they were found out we were looking at other products because their price was very high. We were looking at another solution, then we came back to them was because they brought the price down. We selected them for three years."

More eG Enterprise pricing and cost advice

"The price is too high."

"SAM is not per server so the pricing model can be deceiving. If you have an enterprise environment, you will quickly exceed your licensing quickly. You should know this before going in."

"I like the pricing for this SolarWinds product."

"We are on an annual license to use the solution. The price of the solution is expensive. The price is based on a bunch of factors, such as the number of engines and elements."

"Pricing is inexpensive, starting at 2440 euros. For that, you get the ability to monitor a couple of nodes and one year of maintenance and support."

"Its licensing is on a yearly basis. It is just the standard price, but it can vary depending on the current rate of the dollar."

"When compared to other licensed models in the market, it stands out as one of the more cost-effective options."

"Pricing and licensing is fair for what you get. It does have a great bang-for-the-buck appeal."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Retailer

12%

Government

12%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?

Could you please share your requirements ? There are a lot tools can be added to the list. I spent almost 6 months to test and check many tools then I select eG enterprise.

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Do you recommend eG Enterprise? Why or why not?

I feel that eG Enterprise is one of the top APM tools available on the market. Out of the solutions I have tried, it is the best for monitoring, diagnosis, analytics, and reporting of key IT servic...

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What do you like most about eG Enterprise?

eG Enterprise has a single pane of glass for observability and monitoring.

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What do you like most about SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Identifying the problem statement is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

The initial cost is quite high, but the renewal cost is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

There are no specific features or functionality I would like to see improved or enhanced in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor at this time. I have not encountered any missing features or fu...

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Overview

eG Enterprise is a comprehensive performance monitoring tool that monitors applications, infrastructure, and networks. eG Enterprise offers a complete performance management solution that delivers diagnosis and automated IT auditing, and offers extensive reporting to test application latencies, storage hotspots, network failures, server incompetencies, bottlenecks, user experience (UX) concerns, and more.

eG Enterprise monitors an organization’s total IT ecosystem and applications throughout every layer and all tiers and will take a deep dive to discover where a problem began, faster than any other solution. eG Enterprise is a complete solution that thoroughly monitors the end-user relationship for just about every IT deployment available, such as cloud-based microservices applications, enterprise applications, on-premise monolithic applications, and digital workspaces.

eG Enterprise is a flexible solution and can be deployed in various circumstances, wherever the digital experience of the user needs to be managed and IT infrastructures and applications need to be monitored. eG Enterprise is effective from legacy on-premise deployments to the most cloud-centric ecosystem in the marketplace today.

eG Enterprise Features

Application Performance Monitoring (APM): The solution is able to provide monitoring to discover, diagnose, and repair application performance problems so the end user is never affected.
Infrastructure monitoring: Users have full transparency to clearly visualize what is occurring with recent deployments and immediately diagnose network, database, and server problems.
Digital workspace monitoring: Workspaces are continually monitored to maintain the highest levels of productivity at all times. Users can easily monitor disconnects, logons, slowdowns, complete sessions, and more.
Enterprise application monitoring: Applications that do not perform as expected may result in significant losses for an organization. eG Enterprise is able to monitor many of today’s popular applications, such as PeopleSoft, SAP, Sharepoint, Siebel, and Office 365. Organizations are able to quickly identify underperforming applications, discover and diagnose problems, and remediate issues to ensure that optimal levels of productivity and profitability are being maintained at all times.
Cloud Monitoring: eG Enterprise provides effective monitoring for all of an organization's cloud infrastructures, including public, hybrid and private. eG Enterprise is able to facilitate the concise mapping of the relationships between tiers and discover the reasons for performance problems immediately before they reach the end user. eG Enterprise can be deployed on premises or as a SaaS-based solution.

Reviews from Real Users

“The product makes data collection easy. It's simple to set up. The algorithm is the most valuable aspect of the solution. In a few minutes after the installations, we can get insights from my technical environment. After a few minutes, I can get some valuable insights to make decisions.” - Anderson L., LatAm Presales Analyst at CLM

“Some of the best features of eG are, in terms of APM, they have complete modules between application performance monitoring, server monitoring, and even storage and network-based monitoring. The UI is also quite good. They have some standard AI-based capabilities, even though it's not quite as advanced when compared to Dynatrace. eG has some good, basic APM capabilities.” - A PeerSpot user who is a Consultant at a tech services company

eg Innovations

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers powerful application and server monitoring capabilities for IT pros, enabling them to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues faster. Do not let slow applications and downtime impact your end-users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack. SolarWinds SAM is affordable and easy to deploy, use, and customize. You can automatically discover your system's environment and start monitoring in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.

SolarWinds

Sample Customers

20th Century Fox, Allscripts, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Aviva, AXA, Biogen, Cox Communications, Denver Health, eBay, JP Morgan Chase, PayPal, Southern California Edison, Samsung, and many more.

Andr. L. Riis AS, NetSuite

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