I rate the solution a nine out of ten based on our current version. The solution is a robust and stable product but can be improved by reducing its licensing costs. Therefore, I recommend the solution to users considering implementing it.
I'm a customer and end-user. I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using. As a user, I would recommend the solution as it is user-friendly and easily understandable. It will tell you exactly what the issue is and where. It's quite useful. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
I'm an end-user of SolarWinds NPM. In the organization, over a hundred people use SolarWinds NPM, with five to six administrators. The solution requires specific maintenance, mainly because it has a lot of DW issues. My advice to people looking to start working with SolarWinds NPM is that it's the best solution for a medium-scale environment. For a large-scale environment with many requirements, such as a vast number of nodes, for example, more than twenty-five thousand, SolarWinds NPM may not be as scalable, DW-wise. If you have below fifteen thousand to fifteen thousand nodes, then it's okay to use SolarWinds NPM. My rating for SolarWinds NPM is eight out of ten.
Senior Specialist at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 30, 2022
The solution provides comprehensive monitoring that includes proactive items such as advance notifications and engineer tickets for code breaks. This allows engineers to quickly resolve issues before major outages occur. I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
I mostly recommend SolarWinds, especially to companies with a low budget or to those that are not ready to spend a good amount on network management and network tools. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate SolarWinds at eight.
Sr Software Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Reseller
Sep 20, 2022
I rate SolarWinds NPM eight out of 10. I recommend taking advantage of the online training that's available. Get an account on THWACK, the online user group. It's good for getting help.
I would advise people to only use it for monitoring or viewing traffic flows. Don't use the IPAM section, the DHCP section, or the DNS section. I would rate SolarWinds NPM a seven out of ten.
Assistant Director, IT Service Excellence Quality Assurance at American University in Cairo (AUC)
Real User
Sep 5, 2022
I would advise others to test the environment before deploying the whole solution. I would rate Solarwinds an eight out of ten. I would give a higher rating if I could use root cause analysis to point to one device in the stack to understand which device has a problem. In general, I think SolarWinds is one of the most stable solutions and it has a lot of useful features for network performance monitoring.
It is the latest version. The latest version comes with observability as part of the package. It's SolarWinds attempt to bring all its products under one platform. We've kind of become quite an expert in the area. We are a provider of SolarWinds. We are an MSSP and also a reseller. It depends on what the client wants. We want to launch it as an MSSP for SMEs, and small companies who can't really afford a full install. We just doing a SaaS model so they can deploy it at cost to SMEs. I'd advise potential users to use the one-month free trial and get a company like us to do a proof of concept and then do the NPM, application monitoring, log monitoring, et cetera. One by one, pick up all the products and integrate them. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
I rate this solution a seven out of ten. Regarding advice, I would recommend concentrating on gaining some expertise. A foundational or intermediate understanding of different network protocols and technologies would be helpful when using SolarWinds. In addition, understanding the underlying technology that will eventually be monitored or managed will be good.
Senior Technical Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Real User
Jul 5, 2022
Once the solution is implemented, we'll populate whatever the dashboard is. However, some of the things will not populate. There is a need for services there. We can use the NetPath services feature. We can export that feature to the dashboard. However, it will be easy for any of the system admin to troubleshoot the issue. I’d rate the solution ten out of ten.
IT Infrastructure Analyst at Textron Systems Corporation
Real User
Jun 24, 2022
We are a customer and end-user. I would definitely advise others to do their homework. There are a lot of different modules you can buy with different licensing. You need to understand what you're looking to monitor, and what you're trying to present to your business, and then do the homework on the solution itself and see how that fits your needs before just going and buying it or even talking to a sales representative. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. It's pretty good at its job. I haven't really delved into too many other things. I've tried to look at other tools recently and in my opinion, solutions like Nagios or Zabbix aren't the best. I haven't really looked into other things like Datadog or LogicMonitor yet, however, I'd say this solution is kind of a leader in the pack for what it's doing. Still, there's definitely room for improvement.
Service Delivery Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jun 21, 2022
I would recommend SolarWinds NPM to others but it depends on how complex the network they have is and how large it is. Based on that information, you need to make a decision if the solution is the best fit. If their infrastructure is quite large, the good thing is they can expand it, even for the server infrastructure, not only for network infrastructure. I would recommend the solution for a larger organization. I rate SolarWinds NPM an eight out of ten.
Senior Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jun 17, 2022
We deal directly with Solarwinds. We have been keeping the solution updated. I would recommend the solution. A lot of our colleagues use it and we like the way it works. I'd rate it ten out of ten. I'd advise potential new users to give it a good rundown and see if it really fits what they need. Don't just try it with one or two things. Do the 30-day evaluation. I have folks that have used it and try to find some way to break it really. Load it up the way that you want to run it and actually take time to dig down into it. So far, there hasn't been anything that it hasn't been able to do for us. However, it's designed for that Cisco environment and that's what we've always been. I can't really talk about it outside of the box.
Senior Network Engineer at a mining and metals company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Apr 30, 2022
My advice to others is to follow the best practices. I rate SolarWinds NPM a seven out of ten. The solution has good support they're constantly improving it.
We have the SolarWinds NTA (NetFlow Traffic Analyzer), and we also use another solution from SolarWinds: the SolarWinds SAM to monitor some on-premise servers. It also monitors the GPU, memory, the availability status and processes. We are now monitoring databases, particularly Oracle databases, to check their status and also check internal information. We detect all this information and equip our system so that it has the information, and we're doing it manually because that doesn't happen automatically with SolarWinds. We have 30 people who use SolarWinds NPM and they're part of the operations, network, and infrastructure teams that do the diagnostics when something is wrong. We also have team leaders and some managers that watch the data in real time, plus the configuration and monitoring teams. We have 2 engineers responsible for the deployment and maintenance of the tool. As for plans of increasing our usage of SolarWinds NPM, we've bought more modules recently, and we keep using the tool to monitor our network and infrastructure, together with other tools. For example: we have some very practical tools that our monitoring team uses to make diagnostic alerts such as McAfee. At the moment, our main tool is SolarWinds NPM, and we keep using it, especially for monitoring cloud devices. This is very important to our organization because we've migrated to the cloud. If you're doing cloud migration, you have to picture how you can monitor devices on the cloud. I would recommend SolarWinds APM to others looking into using it. We're using a lot of it. We also have the SolarWinds SAM, and I would recommend it for monitoring databases and servers, and you have to do a little development, but it's manageable. I would also recommend SolarWinds NPM because from experience, it's able to do its job. My rating for SolarWinds NPM is nine out of ten.
SOC Expert at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Feb 17, 2022
I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We're pretty happy with it overall. The downside is that there is no official support available in my country.
Managing Director at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Real User
Dec 9, 2021
We have a couple hundred customers using this solution. Whether the solution is right depends on the customer's needs. What does he want? What is the company's strategy? What expertise does he have? Does the company have its own technicians? Does higher management have the strategy to help their specialists or not? I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Systems Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Nov 22, 2021
I rate SolarWinds NPM an eight out of ten. It is a good solution, it provides multiple module options, easy to use, and predominantly easy to find people to support it in the industry.
Assistant Director of Information Technology at TOWN OF CULPEPER
Real User
Oct 27, 2021
I would recommend having a review with a SolarWinds tech first to make sure you understand the system requirements. It would be helpful to work with them also in regards to unique configurations. I would rate SolarWinds NPM an eight out of ten.
Vice President, SaaS Operations at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Sep 30, 2021
I would suggest putting in a larger VM infrastructure than they ask for because, if you don't, it'll probably be a little slow. I would rate SolarWinds NPM an eight out of ten.
We've done a couple of implementations at this point. We're actually a partner. For a mid-tier customer, I would rate the solution at about an eight. I'd recommend the solution t a mid-tier customer. I wouldn't if the company was quite sizable.
I would not recommend implementing SolarWinds because of the hacks, it is just not trusted. Before they had the hack, the intrusion process I would have rated them a six or a seven but after the compromise, I would rate SolarWinds NPM a zero or one out of ten.
Instrumentation Superintendent Systems at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Aug 25, 2021
We're just customers and end-users. The solution is easy to use and customization is possible. It is extremely powerful when set up correctly. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've been pleased with its capabilities, although its level of security is still worrisome.
Vice President Of Global Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Aug 24, 2021
We're just customers and end-users. We are likely using the latest version of the solution. I cannot speak to the exact version number. We use both the public and private cloud deployment models. I led a team of several hundred engineers who used SolarWinds every day. I would be involved in making the decision of a product to go through. Once they came in and recommended me their top three, I would choose it. I would advise potential users to first take a look at some of the newer vendors on the market who may be a little bit more nimble and are coming out of the box with a focus on edge and edge devices. SolarWinds has a heavy, heavy background. There are lighter options. I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.
Any WAN or LAN environment will benefit from this sort of solution because it consolidates not only the monitoring but also the operation. You can actually trigger some actions based on the conditional threshold that you set in the tool. I rate this solution a nine out of 10.
Senior Vice President and CIO at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Real User
Jul 12, 2021
I would estimate there are three insfrastructure managers, with myself as the head of the IT department. There is at least one other technician working on the wide area, local area network. My advice to others is to add their nodes manually, not to let the network discovery and auto ad run. I rate SolarWinds NPM as an eight out of ten.
It's good to go for SolarWinds NPM, but make sure that you do all the upgrades on time. I would rate SolarWinds NPM at seven on a scale from one to ten.
System Engineer - Infrastructure Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MSP
Dec 30, 2020
Overall, this is a good product and I can recommend it, especially if you have a Windows environment and network. That would not be complex. My only issue is with the integration. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Enterprise Operations Manager at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Real User
Aug 19, 2020
One of the things I would suggest to people considering this product and products like it is having a clear agreement upon targets of what you really want to monitor. If it is applications or servers or whatever it is, it just makes sense to come at your choices with a plan. Implement that on the front end by picking out what is important instead of coming back on the back end and trying to do things after-the-fact. On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this solution as about an eight-out-of-ten.
I would recommend taking into consideration that you will need more server resources than you think. Knowing that means you can save on having to rebuild the whole environment later on. We ended up going from one server to four servers and it's running much better now. Don't skimp on the server resources you get with the application. I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10.
We just use the product. We're not consultants or resellers. I'm not sure of which version of the solution we are currently using. It may be the most recent. I do believe that in the future, users will gravitate towards using one solution for monitoring all the servers and applications. However, right now this product needs a lot of plugins. Currently, a lot of improvements are needed before the solution gets to a good place in terms of usability. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
IT Security Architecture & Implementation Manager at Banque Saudi Fransi
Real User
Jun 18, 2020
This is a valuable and powerful product that will provide users with more than they expect, all in one place. Other products, by comparison, often have limitations in the features. SolarWinds is comprehensive and covers everything, and I recommend it. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
At my old company, we were always using the current version of the solution. We'd like to keep up to date with the latest releases. The company even changed over when there was a move from a 2012 Windows server to an updated version of Windows (16). We had a single server located in one location and all the other devices were networked. Sometimes SolarWinds was used as a slot receiver and trap receiver for some of those devices that have their own "NMS" (network managed system). It's not really proprietary, but we had a northbound interface to be able to send syslogs or TRAPS. SolarWinds was used as the one central location to be able to receive and process alarms and alerts for any trigger actions. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. The solution is kind-of expensive, but at the end of the day, it's quite robust. It has several great functionalities. It has groups, maps, almost everything. It's just a matter of the price point that makes it somewhat prohibitive.
System Administration at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Jun 11, 2019
SolarWinds is a great solution, and I think that for anybody looking for a nice infrastructure monitoring tool, this solution will do the job. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
If you are looking for something which is very customizable for the customization of your network, then you should go with SolarWinds. However, overall, the customization feature is also a disadvantage because it can be very complicated.
Sr Network Administrator at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Nov 25, 2018
It's a bit tricky when you go to the cloud already. I don't know what's the right metric myself, what should you be monitoring. Then, the newer trend right now is they don't even have the concept of a virtual machine. Some deployments, they will just have containers, and a container can be on any machine that they can shoot up anytime and deploy the apps there. But, my question is: How do you monitor the performance? What metric are you going to use? Overall, when considering a new solution, I always consider: * Ease of use * Ability for data collection * Generation of alerts.
Technical Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 20
Jul 5, 2018
SolarWinds is pretty straightforward. If you're a startup, you want to stand up a solution quickly, then SolarWinds would be good for you because it doesn't have a big learning curve to implement it. I would rate this solution an eight out of 10. They're pretty good but we really have pretty predominantly Cisco equipment, so Cisco would offer a better free view of the equipment right now.
SolarWinds NPM is a network monitoring solution that enables you to detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues and outages quickly and efficiently. The solution is a powerful tool that can help you increase service levels, reduce downtime with multi vendor network monitoring, simplify the management of complex network devices, improve operational efficiency, and much more.
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I rate the solution a nine out of ten based on our current version. The solution is a robust and stable product but can be improved by reducing its licensing costs. Therefore, I recommend the solution to users considering implementing it.
I'm a customer and end-user. I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using. As a user, I would recommend the solution as it is user-friendly and easily understandable. It will tell you exactly what the issue is and where. It's quite useful. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
I'm an end-user of SolarWinds NPM. In the organization, over a hundred people use SolarWinds NPM, with five to six administrators. The solution requires specific maintenance, mainly because it has a lot of DW issues. My advice to people looking to start working with SolarWinds NPM is that it's the best solution for a medium-scale environment. For a large-scale environment with many requirements, such as a vast number of nodes, for example, more than twenty-five thousand, SolarWinds NPM may not be as scalable, DW-wise. If you have below fifteen thousand to fifteen thousand nodes, then it's okay to use SolarWinds NPM. My rating for SolarWinds NPM is eight out of ten.
I would recommend this solution to others. I rate SolarWinds NPM a nine out of ten.
I rate SolarWinds NPM eight out of 10. I would recommend this product for medium-sized and enterprise-scale companies.
I would rate SolarWinds NPM a nine out of ten.
I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
The solution provides comprehensive monitoring that includes proactive items such as advance notifications and engineer tickets for code breaks. This allows engineers to quickly resolve issues before major outages occur. I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
I mostly recommend SolarWinds, especially to companies with a low budget or to those that are not ready to spend a good amount on network management and network tools. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate SolarWinds at eight.
I rate SolarWinds NPM eight out of 10. I recommend taking advantage of the online training that's available. Get an account on THWACK, the online user group. It's good for getting help.
I would advise people to only use it for monitoring or viewing traffic flows. Don't use the IPAM section, the DHCP section, or the DNS section. I would rate SolarWinds NPM a seven out of ten.
I would advise others to test the environment before deploying the whole solution. I would rate Solarwinds an eight out of ten. I would give a higher rating if I could use root cause analysis to point to one device in the stack to understand which device has a problem. In general, I think SolarWinds is one of the most stable solutions and it has a lot of useful features for network performance monitoring.
It is the latest version. The latest version comes with observability as part of the package. It's SolarWinds attempt to bring all its products under one platform. We've kind of become quite an expert in the area. We are a provider of SolarWinds. We are an MSSP and also a reseller. It depends on what the client wants. We want to launch it as an MSSP for SMEs, and small companies who can't really afford a full install. We just doing a SaaS model so they can deploy it at cost to SMEs. I'd advise potential users to use the one-month free trial and get a company like us to do a proof of concept and then do the NPM, application monitoring, log monitoring, et cetera. One by one, pick up all the products and integrate them. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
I recommend this solution to others. I rate SolarWinds NPM a nine out of ten.
I would rate this product at 7.5 out of 10.
I rate this solution a seven out of ten. Regarding advice, I would recommend concentrating on gaining some expertise. A foundational or intermediate understanding of different network protocols and technologies would be helpful when using SolarWinds. In addition, understanding the underlying technology that will eventually be monitored or managed will be good.
I rate this solution eight out of 10.
Once the solution is implemented, we'll populate whatever the dashboard is. However, some of the things will not populate. There is a need for services there. We can use the NetPath services feature. We can export that feature to the dashboard. However, it will be easy for any of the system admin to troubleshoot the issue. I’d rate the solution ten out of ten.
I would recommend this solution to other users. I would rate it an eight out of ten.
We are a customer and end-user. I would definitely advise others to do their homework. There are a lot of different modules you can buy with different licensing. You need to understand what you're looking to monitor, and what you're trying to present to your business, and then do the homework on the solution itself and see how that fits your needs before just going and buying it or even talking to a sales representative. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. It's pretty good at its job. I haven't really delved into too many other things. I've tried to look at other tools recently and in my opinion, solutions like Nagios or Zabbix aren't the best. I haven't really looked into other things like Datadog or LogicMonitor yet, however, I'd say this solution is kind of a leader in the pack for what it's doing. Still, there's definitely room for improvement.
I would recommend SolarWinds NPM to others but it depends on how complex the network they have is and how large it is. Based on that information, you need to make a decision if the solution is the best fit. If their infrastructure is quite large, the good thing is they can expand it, even for the server infrastructure, not only for network infrastructure. I would recommend the solution for a larger organization. I rate SolarWinds NPM an eight out of ten.
We deal directly with Solarwinds. We have been keeping the solution updated. I would recommend the solution. A lot of our colleagues use it and we like the way it works. I'd rate it ten out of ten. I'd advise potential new users to give it a good rundown and see if it really fits what they need. Don't just try it with one or two things. Do the 30-day evaluation. I have folks that have used it and try to find some way to break it really. Load it up the way that you want to run it and actually take time to dig down into it. So far, there hasn't been anything that it hasn't been able to do for us. However, it's designed for that Cisco environment and that's what we've always been. I can't really talk about it outside of the box.
I would rate this Solar Winds NPM an eight out of ten.
I rate SolarWinds NPM seven out of 10.
On a scale from one to ten, I would give SolarWinds NPM a seven.
My advice to others is to follow the best practices. I rate SolarWinds NPM a seven out of ten. The solution has good support they're constantly improving it.
We have the SolarWinds NTA (NetFlow Traffic Analyzer), and we also use another solution from SolarWinds: the SolarWinds SAM to monitor some on-premise servers. It also monitors the GPU, memory, the availability status and processes. We are now monitoring databases, particularly Oracle databases, to check their status and also check internal information. We detect all this information and equip our system so that it has the information, and we're doing it manually because that doesn't happen automatically with SolarWinds. We have 30 people who use SolarWinds NPM and they're part of the operations, network, and infrastructure teams that do the diagnostics when something is wrong. We also have team leaders and some managers that watch the data in real time, plus the configuration and monitoring teams. We have 2 engineers responsible for the deployment and maintenance of the tool. As for plans of increasing our usage of SolarWinds NPM, we've bought more modules recently, and we keep using the tool to monitor our network and infrastructure, together with other tools. For example: we have some very practical tools that our monitoring team uses to make diagnostic alerts such as McAfee. At the moment, our main tool is SolarWinds NPM, and we keep using it, especially for monitoring cloud devices. This is very important to our organization because we've migrated to the cloud. If you're doing cloud migration, you have to picture how you can monitor devices on the cloud. I would recommend SolarWinds APM to others looking into using it. We're using a lot of it. We also have the SolarWinds SAM, and I would recommend it for monitoring databases and servers, and you have to do a little development, but it's manageable. I would also recommend SolarWinds NPM because from experience, it's able to do its job. My rating for SolarWinds NPM is nine out of ten.
I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We're pretty happy with it overall. The downside is that there is no official support available in my country.
I would recommend this solution. I would rate it an eight out of 10.
Approximately 50 users utilize SolarWinds NPM within my company.
In summary, this is a good product and I recommend it. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
I would rate this solution as nine out of ten.
We have a couple hundred customers using this solution. Whether the solution is right depends on the customer's needs. What does he want? What is the company's strategy? What expertise does he have? Does the company have its own technicians? Does higher management have the strategy to help their specialists or not? I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I rate SolarWinds NPM an eight out of ten. It is a good solution, it provides multiple module options, easy to use, and predominantly easy to find people to support it in the industry.
I would rate SolarWinds NPM an eight out of ten.
I would recommend having a review with a SolarWinds tech first to make sure you understand the system requirements. It would be helpful to work with them also in regards to unique configurations. I would rate SolarWinds NPM an eight out of ten.
I would suggest putting in a larger VM infrastructure than they ask for because, if you don't, it'll probably be a little slow. I would rate SolarWinds NPM an eight out of ten.
We've done a couple of implementations at this point. We're actually a partner. For a mid-tier customer, I would rate the solution at about an eight. I'd recommend the solution t a mid-tier customer. I wouldn't if the company was quite sizable.
I would strongly recommend this solution for others. I rate SolarWinds NPM a nine out of ten.
I would not recommend implementing SolarWinds because of the hacks, it is just not trusted. Before they had the hack, the intrusion process I would have rated them a six or a seven but after the compromise, I would rate SolarWinds NPM a zero or one out of ten.
I would rate SolarWinds an eight out of ten.
We're just customers and end-users. The solution is easy to use and customization is possible. It is extremely powerful when set up correctly. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've been pleased with its capabilities, although its level of security is still worrisome.
We're just customers and end-users. We are likely using the latest version of the solution. I cannot speak to the exact version number. We use both the public and private cloud deployment models. I led a team of several hundred engineers who used SolarWinds every day. I would be involved in making the decision of a product to go through. Once they came in and recommended me their top three, I would choose it. I would advise potential users to first take a look at some of the newer vendors on the market who may be a little bit more nimble and are coming out of the box with a focus on edge and edge devices. SolarWinds has a heavy, heavy background. There are lighter options. I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.
Any WAN or LAN environment will benefit from this sort of solution because it consolidates not only the monitoring but also the operation. You can actually trigger some actions based on the conditional threshold that you set in the tool. I rate this solution a nine out of 10.
I would estimate there are three insfrastructure managers, with myself as the head of the IT department. There is at least one other technician working on the wide area, local area network. My advice to others is to add their nodes manually, not to let the network discovery and auto ad run. I rate SolarWinds NPM as an eight out of ten.
It's good to go for SolarWinds NPM, but make sure that you do all the upgrades on time. I would rate SolarWinds NPM at seven on a scale from one to ten.
Overall, this is a good product and I can recommend it, especially if you have a Windows environment and network. That would not be complex. My only issue is with the integration. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
This is a product that I recommend, although it requires technical skills in order to use it. I would rate this solution a six out of ten.
I would recommend SolarWinds NPM. From the product side, it covers everything. It is perfect. I would rate it a nine out of ten.
One of the things I would suggest to people considering this product and products like it is having a clear agreement upon targets of what you really want to monitor. If it is applications or servers or whatever it is, it just makes sense to come at your choices with a plan. Implement that on the front end by picking out what is important instead of coming back on the back end and trying to do things after-the-fact. On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this solution as about an eight-out-of-ten.
I would recommend taking into consideration that you will need more server resources than you think. Knowing that means you can save on having to rebuild the whole environment later on. We ended up going from one server to four servers and it's running much better now. Don't skimp on the server resources you get with the application. I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10.
We just use the product. We're not consultants or resellers. I'm not sure of which version of the solution we are currently using. It may be the most recent. I do believe that in the future, users will gravitate towards using one solution for monitoring all the servers and applications. However, right now this product needs a lot of plugins. Currently, a lot of improvements are needed before the solution gets to a good place in terms of usability. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
This is a valuable and powerful product that will provide users with more than they expect, all in one place. Other products, by comparison, often have limitations in the features. SolarWinds is comprehensive and covers everything, and I recommend it. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
At my old company, we were always using the current version of the solution. We'd like to keep up to date with the latest releases. The company even changed over when there was a move from a 2012 Windows server to an updated version of Windows (16). We had a single server located in one location and all the other devices were networked. Sometimes SolarWinds was used as a slot receiver and trap receiver for some of those devices that have their own "NMS" (network managed system). It's not really proprietary, but we had a northbound interface to be able to send syslogs or TRAPS. SolarWinds was used as the one central location to be able to receive and process alarms and alerts for any trigger actions. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. The solution is kind-of expensive, but at the end of the day, it's quite robust. It has several great functionalities. It has groups, maps, almost everything. It's just a matter of the price point that makes it somewhat prohibitive.
SolarWinds is a great solution, and I think that for anybody looking for a nice infrastructure monitoring tool, this solution will do the job. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
The most important criteria when selecting a vendor are support and flexibility.
If you are looking for something which is very customizable for the customization of your network, then you should go with SolarWinds. However, overall, the customization feature is also a disadvantage because it can be very complicated.
It's a bit tricky when you go to the cloud already. I don't know what's the right metric myself, what should you be monitoring. Then, the newer trend right now is they don't even have the concept of a virtual machine. Some deployments, they will just have containers, and a container can be on any machine that they can shoot up anytime and deploy the apps there. But, my question is: How do you monitor the performance? What metric are you going to use? Overall, when considering a new solution, I always consider: * Ease of use * Ability for data collection * Generation of alerts.
I would like to see this product becoming more flexible in the future. In addition, integration with other solutions would be helpful.
SolarWinds is pretty straightforward. If you're a startup, you want to stand up a solution quickly, then SolarWinds would be good for you because it doesn't have a big learning curve to implement it. I would rate this solution an eight out of 10. They're pretty good but we really have pretty predominantly Cisco equipment, so Cisco would offer a better free view of the equipment right now.