SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor vs Splunk APM comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

SolarWinds Server and Appli...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
24th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Server Monitoring (12th), Active Directory Management (10th)
Splunk APM
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
13th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is 2.2%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk APM is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Unique Categories:
Server Monitoring
7.0%
Active Directory Management
0.9%
No other categories found
 

Featured Reviews

Carlos Camargo - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 6, 2024
Provides user-friendly API features and has straightforward deployment process
We use the product to monitor our customers' critical services and applications. This tool has provided invaluable insights into capacity and application usage, which has been instrumental in managing bandwidth efficiently and controlling costs for our clients SolarWinds SAM has significantly…
Nagendra Nekkala. - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 20, 2023
Offers end-to-end visibility, real-time monitoring, and distributed tracing, enabling organizations to optimize application performance and troubleshoot issues efficiently
Providing comprehensive visibility throughout the environment, it monitors my system, enhances career performance, and offers insights into the user experience. Troubleshooting and visualizing a cloud-native environment is made easy with Splunk APM. It provides complete visibility into software tools, swiftly monitoring business performance and applications. It possesses the capability to conduct distributed tracing within our environment. This includes monitoring the speed of tracked access, extending from end users to the Internet, system, and network services, and supporting my software application. Consequently, it offers an end-to-end overview of potential bottlenecks. Splunk APM has significantly enhanced our organizational efficiency. Initially, my responsibilities included tracking website application performance, managing applications, and handling license releases. Now, it provides real-time user monitoring, transforming the way I handle these tasks. It significantly impacts our organization's telemetry data, improving operational performance and user experience. The platform provides insights into application performance and effective log management. Ensuring accurate tracking of all performance-related logs contributes to building up the application performance percentage with comprehensive data. It contributed to a daily reduction of six hours in our mean time to resolve.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"This product can monitor application environments no matter where they reside and provides capabilities for deep insight into infrastructure."
"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 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."
"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 most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."
"Monitoring of processes and services is the most valuable feature. It is not necessarily just the server alone in terms of the CPU or the memory. We can go in-depth into services and processes."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The company has many systems that the customer is paying to access. Splunk APM issued via AppDynamics helps find problems in the feed. It reduces the risk of supervising all the devices. I can supervise the flow and simulate the conditions of the repository across several dashboards to show what's happening at the moment."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
 

Cons

"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve by having a cloud version. They have an observability platform but it still needs to be maintained by us."
"SAM's software-defined network monitoring capability is also low and could be improved."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"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."
"The product needs to reduce its price."
"Currently SolarWinds SAM offers AppInsight for modern versions of: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server. They have shown to be powerful and insightful tools. However, AppInsight needs to be offered for more applications: Citrix, SharePoint, AX, etc."
"The tool's AppStack needs to improve in the storage monitoring part. It should also include an analytics and recommendation approach. If I have found a fault in a server or application, I would like to know what caused it and how do I recover from it."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Understanding the counts of objects to monitor will determine the licensing need. In terms of pricing, it’s not cheap but it’s not expensive as larger vendors whose products don’t have all the features or integrations."
"When planning for the number of licenses to purchase, make sure you understand all of the elements within an application required to really understand performance well. In our case, we quickly came to the conclusion that an unlimited license for SAM was the way to go."
"Nagios XI, WhatsUpGold, Uptime Software, PRTG, Manage Engine, and SpiceWorks are the other tools that have lower pricing and licensing costs. However, they can't compete with SolarWinds when it comes to the features and functionality that SolarWinds can provide."
"Pricing is inexpensive, starting at 2440 euros. For that, you get the ability to monitor a couple of nodes and one year of maintenance and support."
"I think SolarWinds' pricing is very decent compared to other competitors in the market."
"I would rate the pricing for this solution a three out of five."
"I like the pricing for this SolarWinds product."
"The price is too high."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Splunk offers a 14-day free trial and after that, we have to pay but the cost is reasonable."
"Splunk APM is a very cost-efficient solution."
"The price of Slunk APM is less than some of its competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
42%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Retailer
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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Sample Customers

Andr. L. Riis AS, NetSuite
Sunrun, Yelp, Onshape, Tapjoy, Symphony Commerce, Chairish, Clever, Grovo, Bazaar Voice, Zenefits, Avalara
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