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We performed a comparison between NetApp Cloud Insights and SolarWinds AppOptics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed NetApp Cloud Insights vs. SolarWinds AppOptics Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"It is good for giving an overview of the systems and for tracking long-term trends. It is handy for root cause analysis, e.g. it can eliminate whether storage is the cause of an issue.""The solution is easy to deploy.""Cloud Insights' best features are visibility and the connector to move the workloads.""One feature we appreciate the most is its ability to take snapshots, which adds an extra layer of security and allows us to protect our data effectively.""The visibility and assistance with security vulnerabilities are valuable.""Its ability to quickly inventory our resources, figure out interdependencies across them, and assemble a topology of your environment is brilliant. There is a price associated with it. Whenever you target a NetApp environment, it is included in the price but whenever you want to add different vendors, like VMware and Cisco, the price greatly spikes. Inventorization helps us a lot to visualize the environment.""All our production clusters are in Cloud Insight. It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment, which allows us to understand if any issues are going on across any of our clusters.""The solution is 98 percent stable."

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"The product has a great dashboard.""Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis.""Technical support is always live and they're supportive.""The sum solution, NTA, and DPA.""The reporting of the solution is very good.""I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."

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Cons
"When I did need support because I was having problems with the solution, the first or the second line just didn't understand it. They were providing this only on a software as a service basis. So, they were asking all the wrong questions.""Ease of reporting is one thing that they're trying to tackle. If you have a specific set of data you want from Cloud Insights, you can ask NetApp to help you build the reports from the ground up. The dashboards are intuitive, but finding the report you want is sometimes a challenge. If you don't have the report already loaded, pulling it in and letting it build its data can be cumbersome.""Cloud Insights could offer more detail when we drill down into the Azure environment.""The IP-based monitoring could be added in a future release.""There is room for improving the creating and managing or modifying of reports. That is still a difficult task to do and requires knowledge beyond the storage itself. I would love to see reporting improved so that we can create reports by dragging and dropping pieces into a report form and publish a report that way.""In a perfect world we would have something built, right out-of-the-box, that can identify what we call "noise," and reduce the amount of data. You're presented with so much data when you first start the data collectors. For example, it brings back a lot of change rates that happen just because of standard computing, like profile changes and that sort of thing. Being able to identify things like that and categorize them and strip it down—and it probably can do that, I just haven't gotten there yet—would be very beneficial.""Most of the time, I initially connect with entry-level support, and then I need to request a higher-tier support level, which can result in delays.""The visualization needs some improvement because there are occasional delays while the system queries information."

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"The solution should be more user-friendly.""AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view.""The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models.""The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward.""I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market.""In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The licensing model could be improved. We love that you can use it for free for looking at NetApp products. You only need licenses to look at non-NetApp products, but as soon as you do that, you start utilizing licenses that actually would have been free in the public. So, there is a bit of an anomaly in the licensing model."
  • "Be aware of the capacity licensing and understand how that works, because it is based on capacity. Getting an understanding of that is the biggest thing."
  • "The solution's pricing is based on the device you purchase and includes support services."
  • "We are billed based on management units, so we can purchase units based on six months, twelve months, twenty-four months, or thirty-six months upfront or pay as you go depending on our requirements."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about the end-use managed units and having an easy place to reference how far those units go."
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  • "Mostly, it's a perpetual license. We don't have any customers using the subscription right now—it's mostly a perpetual license that the customers purchase. The licensing is based on the number of elements, whereas other solutions are node-based."
  • "I believe the current licensing cost is reasonable."
  • "Since it's a negotiable rate, I would rate the pricing as a five out of five."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:NetApp Cloud Insights helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting. Previously, if we had performance concerns or needed to interface with other groups and their products, a task that should… more »
    Top Answer:The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about the… more »
    Top Answer:Ease of reporting is one thing that they're trying to tackle. If you have a specific set of data you want from Cloud Insights, you can ask NetApp to help you build the reports from the ground up. The… more »
    Top Answer:The solution should be more user-friendly.
    Top Answer:I used the solution for monitoring servers and network equipment.
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    Also Known As
    AppOptics, SolarWinds TraceView, Librato
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    Overview

    NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers.

    AppOptics is a SaaS-based simple, powerful and affordable Infrastructure & Application monitoring for custom on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems. 

    Your business runs on applications, and when they go down or run slowly, it can impact the business in lost productivity, customers, or revenue. To add to the complexity, your IT environment is changing, and workloads can be spread across data centers, and cloud resources. You need to monitor the availability and performance of applications and infrastructure, regardless of where they are, so you can identify potential issues early and address them before they impact users

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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Logistics Company17%
    Legal Firm17%
    Media Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company16%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Educational Organization61%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Computer Software Company6%
    Government5%
    Company Size
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    Midsize Enterprise33%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise66%
    Large Enterprise26%
    Buyer's Guide
    NetApp Cloud Insights vs. SolarWinds AppOptics
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp Cloud Insights vs. SolarWinds AppOptics and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    NetApp Cloud Insights is ranked 27th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 12 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 50th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 9 reviews. NetApp Cloud Insights is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds AppOptics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Insights writes "It helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". NetApp Cloud Insights is most compared with Dell CloudIQ, Datadog, Zabbix, IBM Turbonomic and ServiceNow IT Operations Management, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Datadog and New Relic. See our NetApp Cloud Insights vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.

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