We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prometheus is the preferred choice over SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor due to its flexibility, integration capabilities, and affordability as an open-source solution. While SolarWinds has valuable monitoring capabilities, there is room for improvement in stability, ease of use, and pricing. Prometheus is highly valued for its fast data storage system, scraping mechanism, and ability to collect and compare logs from different resources.
"It is an efficient solution."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"Solarwinds has an open database that allows you to do serious integrations. It doesn't matter which service desk you have, you can implement and integrate it with SolarWinds."
"The application dependency feature identifies issues between applications and servers or within the network where the application is hosted. It highlights related problems, whether related to packet processing or other issues, enabling the creation of alerts and reports accordingly."
"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 product integrates with Remedy."
"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 solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"Its stability could be even better."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
"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."
"The current script monitoring feature has limitations, especially when dealing with custom scripts."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
"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."
"The major concern in the product revolves around application performance monitoring since end-to-end application monitoring is not possible with the tool."
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Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, ServiceNow Discovery and Nagios XI. See our Prometheus vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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