Subject Matter Expert at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 27, 2017
Manage Groups: The capability to group appropriate devices gives better visibility of sites, categories, or critical regions. The same can be used to represent a dashboard for higher management.
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Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 13, 2019
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.
Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
May 7, 2017
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.
Senior Process Associate at Tata Consultancy Services
May 19, 2022
The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up.
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Senior Process Associate at Tata Consultancy Services
May 19, 2022
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 major concern in the product revolves around application performance monitoring since end-to-end application monitoring is not possible with the tool.
The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use.