SolarWinds AppOptics vs SolarWinds Pingdom comparison

SolarWinds AppOptics and SolarWinds Pingdom are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked #58, while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked #59. SolarWinds AppOptics holds a 0.3% mindshare in APM, compared to SolarWinds Pingdom’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of SolarWinds AppOptics users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of SolarWinds Pingdom users who would recommend it.

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

SolarWinds Pingdom and SolarWinds AppOptics compete in website and application performance monitoring. SolarWinds AppOptics has the upper hand for advanced users due to its comprehensive feature set and depth.

Features: SolarWinds Pingdom focuses on uptime monitoring, transaction monitoring, and real-user monitoring. SolarWinds AppOptics offers distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring, and detailed application metrics.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest SolarWinds Pingdom could improve its alerting systems, data retention periods, and performance customization. SolarWinds AppOptics users feel that its dashboards, integration with third-party tools, and interface need enhancement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SolarWinds Pingdom is praised for its quick setup and straightforward deployment. SolarWinds AppOptics users report a steeper learning curve but find detailed documentation and support helpful.

Pricing and ROI: SolarWinds Pingdom is considered cost-effective with a good ROI for small to medium businesses. SolarWinds AppOptics, although more expensive, provides higher value at a premium for larger enterprises.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

SolarWinds AppOptics

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

58th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (57th), Cloud Monitoring Software (43rd)

SolarWinds Pingdom

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

59th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of SolarWinds AppOptics is 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Pingdom is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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John Yuko

Assistant Manager ICT - Projects at I&M Bank Ltd

Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions

I would like to see more granular information provided on Unix applications. Also, the integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward in terms having an agent to retrieve your credentials rather than having to enter or save them for SSH on SolarWinds. From the outset, we had to set some commands to log into the search console, and they are saved on the solution, which presents a challenge in terms of exposure. The solution is unable to monitor APK solutions completely because we'd then be forced to break down the APK and provide the APIs or go through the source code. They don't have a module that can analyze an application that is maybe under-used.

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Jay Vekaria

Linux System Administrator at Ergode

High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use

Some of the functions could improve by making them easier. There is room for improvement when it comes to the graphs provided by the software. Additionally, there seems to be an issue with the ping status, as it sometimes indicates that a website is down even when it is functioning properly. It appears that there are certain aspects related to cache management or other backend functionalities that are unclear. The time range graph and overall user interface could be more user-friendly. For example, when selecting a custom graph for a specific time period, clicking on it should open the corresponding website in a new tab, but instead, it displays the current graph. This lack of consistency can be frustrating when trying to navigate the interface. Furthermore, the reports shared on a weekly basis arrive one week late, reducing their usefulness. Overall, some extra efforts are required to make the user experience smoother and more efficient.

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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 sum solution, NTA, and DPA."

"The reporting of the solution is very good."

"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."

"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."

"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"

"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."

"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."

"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."

Cons

"The solution should be more user-friendly."

"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."

"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."

"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."

"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."

"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."

"I would like to see better integration with other products."

"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."

"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."

"Technical support could use some improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"This price of this solution is reasonable."

"While I wouldn't describe it as excessively expensive, if you require specific and reliable monitoring, SolarWinds can be a suitable option. The advantage is that SolarWinds offers a free version as well. If you don't heavily rely on its monitoring capabilities and are content with its basic features, the free version could suffice for your needs."

"The license was paid yearly and included technical support."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

38%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

Educational Organization

39%

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Also Known As

AppOptics, SolarWinds TraceView, Librato

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Overview

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

SolarWinds

SolarWinds® Pingdom® is a powerful and affordable SaaS-based web app performance monitoring solution. It’s one product providing comprehensive web app performance and user experience monitoring consisting of four major capabilities:

1. Uptime monitoring for webpages and other critical components like APIs, CDNs, DNS, networks, email, and more.

2. Page speed performance monitoring and page rankings.

3. Synthetic transaction monitoring from the simplest to the most complex transactions.

4. Real user monitoring (RUM), enabling a deeper and wider understanding of the user’s digital experience, and web application availability and performance.

SolarWinds

Sample Customers

TraxoCovea Insurance BTE TechnologyDatarista

Spotify, MailChimp, Slack, Twitter

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