Oracle Real User Experience Insight vs SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor comparison

Oracle and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Oracle is ranked #67, while SolarWinds is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.6. Oracle holds a 0.5% mindshare in APM, compared to SolarWinds’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Oracle 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

Oracle Real User Experience Insight and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor are leading tools in user experience monitoring and application performance management. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor seems to have the upper hand due to its ease of use, streamlined deployment, and overall cost-effectiveness.

What features are offered by Oracle Real User Experience Insight in comparison to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Oracle Real User Experience Insight offers detailed transaction analysis, real-time monitoring capabilities, and comprehensive feature sets. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor provides an intuitive dashboard, comprehensive server monitoring, and versatile alert configurations.

What areas of improvement can be found in Oracle Real User Experience Insight in comparison to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Oracle Real User Experience Insight could improve the complexity of setup and the need for more detailed documentation. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor faces occasional issues with false-positive alerts and an overloaded interface.

How is the ease of deployment and customer service of Oracle Real User Experience Insight in comparison to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Deployment of Oracle Real User Experience Insight is complex, requiring specialized skills and extended time. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is straightforward to install with immediate functionality. SolarWinds receives praise for responsive customer service and effective support, whereas Oracle's support is noted to be slower and sometimes less helpful.

What setup costs and ROI can be seen with Oracle Real User Experience Insight in comparison to SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Oracle Real User Experience Insight is considered expensive with a slower return on investment due to its complexity and high setup costs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor offers competitive pricing, faster setup, and quicker ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Oracle Real User Experience Insight vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Real User Experience...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

67th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SolarWinds Server and Appli...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

4.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (8th), Active Directory Management (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Oracle Real User Experience Insight is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is 1.3%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor	1.3%
Oracle Real User Experience Insight	0.5%
Other	98.2%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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AKM Rezaul Karim

Deputy General Manager at Thakral

Provides you with powerful analysis of your network and business infrastructure

There are instances of imitation, like with processors. As customers, we aim to develop this area, particularly focusing on the networking facility and connectivity. The challenge lies in the connection between the DC and MDR, which is quite distant. The link between them needs to be reliable. When direct fiber isn't available, they resort to using dark fiber, which can lead to some limitations. This situation presents another layer of complexity, requiring approximately 11 feet of additional infrastructure. This is essential for ensuring that applications have minimal latency. In the event of any issues, an account is set up for cache memory to ensure that the system remains operational and can recover data from the cache as needed. Additionally, I have a secondary aspect to consider.

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NikhilKalwint

Technical Specialist at ServiceIO

Monitoring over a thousand systems has improved decision making and operational visibility

From an advantage perspective, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is comparatively cheaper from a commercial point of view. It is easy to install and configure, very user-friendly, and quick to get up and running, allowing you to see the early value adds in your organization. It is compatible with most technologies for monitoring with very few chances of incompatibility. Configuration also allows us to monitor all the technical parameters we are looking for, making it a very good experience for us. The alerting feature in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is a main advantage, as it alerts based on threshold breaches and can raise tickets to the ticketing system, send SMS, and email notifications, allowing engineers to work on those tickets to resolve issues and avoid further impact. The visibility into server health is a beneficial feature that I am utilizing. We widely use various application performance metrics in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor such as database monitoring and server monitoring, which are quite good enough for any monitoring solution. We utilize the customizable dashboards in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor.

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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

"The most valuable feature is the ability to Drill down to webpage actions."

"The customers requires redundancy work to achieve a 99.999% uptime. To accomplish this, we installed this solution into storage. This setup ensures that if one node goes down, the system remains operational through another node. So that's the core aspect of the setup. Additionally, the schedule and the rental database run on servers, and behind these servers, we have storage. This storage operates as a single storage cluster, although there might be another storage option that costs around $30."

"Customer satisfaction higher than before."

"Even if you don't have a QA tool, you can automate a lot of the quality assurance functions through ORUEI."

"ORUEI lets you create a dashboard that shows you insight into the user experience."

"Before RUEI came in, the users from production took hours to resolve issues, or couldn't end up finding a root cause."

"The availability of the solution is its most valuable aspect, and I can also Google anything I want and upload it on the cloud using the very helpful mobile app."

"The availability of the solution is its most valuable aspect. I can also Google anything I want and upload it on the cloud. I can do that using the mobile app. It is very helpful."

"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."

"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."

"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 solution is end-to-end from the network and the application to the processes, everything about the enterprise infrastructure is being covered by the solution, it's easy to use and easy to navigate and one of the leaders among monitoring solutions."

"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."

"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."

"SolarWinds allows network administrators to easily monitor the network by customizing the pages to see what exactly is needed, in addition to the deep statistics shown for nodes and interfaces like response time, packet loss, interface CRC, interface errors, as well as the rich graphs for all network elements."

"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"

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Cons

"The application resource usage has increased due to using RUEI."

"Licensing is very expensive for this solution."

"It is a bit complex for newbie."

"There are instances of imitation, like with processors. As customers, we aim to develop this area, particularly focusing on the networking facility and connectivity. The challenge lies in the connection between the DC and MDR, which is quite distant. The link between them needs to be reliable. When direct fiber isn't available, they resort to using dark fiber, which can lead to some limitations. This situation presents another layer of complexity, requiring approximately 11 feet of additional infrastructure. This is essential for ensuring that applications have minimal latency. In the event of any issues, an account is set up for cache memory to ensure that the system remains operational and can recover data from the cache as needed. Additionally, I have a secondary aspect to consider."

"Currently, it monitors web applications well, but ORUEI doesn't monitor mobile applications yet. It would be nice if they also added the ability to monitor mobile apps."

"It would be nice if the solution could be integrated with Outlook. If I'm signing any quotation, any proposal, or any of my communications, I should be able to update that Oracle application as well."

"Currently, it monitors web applications well, but ORUEI doesn't monitor mobile applications yet."

"The application resource usage has increased due to using RUEI."

"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."

"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."

"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."

"It should also be easier to upgrade SolarWinds. AppDynamics is harder to deploy but easier to upgrade. So AppDynamics takes a lot of time and effort to install, but you can upgrade it in minutes. SolarWinds is the opposite. It's easy to deploy, but upgrades take forever. To date, nobody can complete it on time, so the production environment is sitting idle."

"They should incorporate more artificial intelligence. There should also be more predictive features."

"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."

"Mapping interactions between systems."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I have always said SolarWinds is very “proud” of their products, meaning they are expensive. I cannot afford to purchase all the licenses I need for all the SolarWinds products."

"The tool is available for my company at a good price point."

"The licenses start from USD 3000.00 and go up to USD 20,000.00 for the year. It's a perpetual license. Nothing is free in SolarWinds, anything that you need is an additional cost."

"The product is expensive."

"I think SolarWinds' pricing is very decent compared to other competitors in the market."

"I like the pricing for this SolarWinds product."

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

"Price can always be lower. It is neither on the expensive side nor on the cheap side. We have worked with them for a lot of years, so we get a discount due to the size of the installation."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

24%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Construction Company

Insurance Company

Educational Organization

12%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Healthcare Company

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	21

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Also Known As

Oracle Real User Experience Insight, Oracle RUEI

SolarWinds SAM

Overview

Oracle Real User Experience Insight, Oracle's on-premises management platform, providing a single pane of glass for management of Oracle environments, whether in customer data centers or in Oracle Cloud that integrates performance analysis and usage analysis into a single offering, enabling business and IT stakeholders to develop a shared understanding into their application users' experience. Oracle Real User Experience Insight's non-intrusive monitoring capability is built using state-of-the-art Network Protocol Analysis (NPA) technology, which does not require any modification, changes, or instrumentation of the application. Its passive monitoring approach allows enterprises to deploy in production, without requiring costly test/QA environment validations.

Oracle

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

Hover Automotive India, Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society, Daelim Industrial, MakeMyTrip, Acorn Paper Products Company, KEC International, Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali, The Qatar Olympic Committee

Andr. L. Riis AS, NetSuite

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