We performed a comparison between ManageEngine OpManager and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"I liked Network Configuration Manager. They had some pretty decent features there, and they also had pretty good monitoring and alerts."
"The dashboard, versatility and larger horizon are valuable."
"The setup was easy."
"The traffic monitoring and the traffic analysis are great."
"We use the solution to monitor links. It also helps us to track servers and monitor logs."
"It helps us a lot for monitoring our servers in one console, instead of going to individual servers."
"This is a good general monitoring system that has all the features we require and they constantly update with new capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of ManageEngine OpManager makes it easy to monitor all the network alerts on the application."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"I adore the NTA module that provides deep details on ingress/egress traffic for any interface. With a few clicks, you can correlate who is accessing what and when, beside the bandwidth consuming applications/users."
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."
"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution's reports need to include the number of applications consumed."
"The pricing of the solution is high. They should work to adjust the pricing model to see if they can help reduce costs."
"ManageEngine OpManager could improve by having a better cloud presence."
"There needs to be improvements to make the solution capable of supporting more devices, and it would be good to see an option for automatic deployment."
"We get a lot of false alerts."
"The initial setup is a bit complicated. It needs a technician who is very aware of the flow and how to officially set up the flow chart, etc."
"There should be an option to get mobile notifications or SMS mirror notifications for critical issues. That way, when we don't have access to email, we can still receive notifications via our phones."
"ManageEngine OpManager can improve by having better updates for critical issues."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
"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."
"One area that could benefit from improvement is its performance"
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"There is one feature that is a report writer. And they are currently trying to take it out from being a stand-alone application and integrating to the web. This doesn't give us the flexibility and it doesn't expand what we can get when it comes to reporting. So, putting it on the web is going to make it difficult to get some information. Leaving it where it is now will help us a lot."
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ManageEngine OpManager is ranked 15th in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. ManageEngine OpManager is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ManageEngine OpManager writes "Helps us monitor all the infrastructure in our company but UI monitoring is not practical". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". ManageEngine OpManager is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, SCOM and Nagios XI, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery.
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