We performed a comparison between ControlUp and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The script-based actions have allowed us to extend the core reporting capabilities."
"It shows you so many details of what's going on in that log-on that, if there's a problem, you can identify it in five minutes."
"Security, uptime, and reduced capital expenditures are the main reasons we use ControlUp. So basically, the money that we consume is based on the amount of time we are using a service."
"ControlUp has some good functionalities, such as remotely pushing scripts in the device through the tool."
"Integration with Netscaler and Scoutbees can provide a proper end-to-end analysis of the user's experience and give us a real ROI."
"It has a great career time monitoring tool."
"The most valuable features in ControlUp are endpoint monitoring and the many features that are available."
"ControlUp is beneficial as it provides a web interface through which you can access all your infrastructure—servers, devices, and VDI infrastructure—all on the same platform. It supports gathering all infrastructure components in a single, unified dashboard. This helps you identify performance issues or high resource utilization, allowing quick troubleshooting. I appreciate the solid interface that ControlUp offers."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"There are a lot of valuable features with SolarWinds NPM. We can receive a lot of detailed data from the monitoring that can use useful for investigations, especially when you are troubleshooting. It is very helpful. Overall it was a very good experience."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"The ability to quickly identify downtime is the most valuable."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"A product that is well-tested and trusted in demanding situations."
"ControlUp could improve the integration. Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop monitoring has better integration."
"Integration is always a problem, and we feel that we are doing our best and the service provider thinks they are doing their best. I guess if ControlUp's system could be more capable or if people could understand the integration part, that would be better."
"The graphical user interface needs to be improved from version to version."
"It can be improved by including script-based scheduling."
"Solve is a quick and intuitive tool for quickly mapping data together, however, once you have the view of the data that you like, it is difficult to share this with colleagues."
"This solution be improved by including load throttling tools. For example, I can identify a service where we spend a lot of CPU but I cannot restrict the service from ControlUp. I have to use another tool like AppSense."
"There was some lag earlier, and reports pulled from the dashboard would sometimes be half an hour old. But now, the information provides real-time status, which is greatly appreciated. Overall, I've seen improvement in the product."
"We'd like to see the mobile app working again so that we can get alerts 24/7. This is especially useful for the person on call."
"This product could improve by adding cloud monitoring. I want SolarWinds NPM to do much more integration, and have more involvement in cloud monitoring, like AWS or Google, or Azure. I feel like it requires lots of improvement for cloud monitoring in NPM."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"It has covered everything, so no improvement is required at their end. The only thing is the price."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"Currently lacks integration with SMS services."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
"If they could combine everything into one product, that would be very helpful."
ControlUp is ranked 22nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 11 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. ControlUp is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ControlUp writes "Great for troubleshooting and reporting with a controller that allows for configuration comparisons". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". ControlUp is most compared with Nexthink, Goliath Performance Monitor, Liquidware Stratusphere UX, eG Enterprise and Login VSI, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our ControlUp vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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