We performed a comparison between ManageEngine OpManager and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The solution gives pretty good network visibility. I am also impressed with it's monitoring."
"Device backups are smooth and managed centrally, with a nice dashboard, so you can quickly see the status."
"It helps us a lot for monitoring our servers in one console, instead of going to individual servers."
"Defining thresholds and other alerting criteria is fairly simple and would not require a lot of training. This is very useful if you are managing a large environment."
"We use the solution to monitor links. It also helps us to track servers and monitor logs."
"We find the networking aspect of this solution to be the most valuable."
"The uptime and monitoring are valuable to us because we need to monitor the uptime of our services, the memory, and the CPUs."
"The traffic monitoring and the traffic analysis are great."
"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."
"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."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."
"This product can monitor application environments no matter where they reside and provides capabilities for deep insight into infrastructure."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The licensing model is confusing."
"We had some stability issues at the outset that have since been resolved."
"The licensing for this solution is not straightforward and should be improved."
"ManageEngine OpManager can improve by having better updates for critical issues."
"The initial setup is a bit complicated. It needs a technician who is very aware of the flow and how to officially set up the flow chart, etc."
"I would like to see more enhancements made to the product."
"There are certain things that are not possible to do with Op Manager. It's a solution that still needs time to develop."
"The solution is a bit difficult to configure. There are quite a number of configurations and plugins that you must handle early in the process."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"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."
"Reporting is the only thing with which we currently have challenges. They have this in two ways. There is the report writer, which is the backend, and we also have web reports, which are on the console. So, they have removed the report writer for the backend reports, and we are making use of the web console, but most of the users are not finding it very interesting to use the frontend reports. I would like them to bring back the report writer. That's the key area within it to improve on the reporting. If they can bring back the report writer, then most users will actually be comfortable. I have some customers who are trying to export their report to an Excel format, but it is not possible because they said any report that has been done from the web console cannot be exported to Excel, but most of the customers need to export their reports to Excel. That's one area they need to work on."
"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"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."
"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."
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ManageEngine OpManager is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. ManageEngine OpManager is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ManageEngine OpManager writes "Helps us monitor all the infrastructure in our company but UI monitoring is not practical". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". ManageEngine OpManager is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI.
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