We performed a comparison between NetCrunch and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"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."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"The solution can be deployed quickly."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
"One area that could benefit from improvement is its performance"
"Mapping interactions between systems."
"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"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."
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NetCrunch is ranked 25th in Server Monitoring while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 10th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. NetCrunch is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetCrunch writes "A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". NetCrunch is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Fortinet FortiSIEM, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI. See our NetCrunch vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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