We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager 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."With ASH Analytics, ADDM, Real-Time SQL Monitoring, SQL Tuning Advisor, we can measure SLAs, detect performance hotspots, perform deep diagnostics into specific tiers, tune applications, and remediate."
"It's a useful feature to be able to see the top SQL, the number of executions, the CPU, and the resources that it's using."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring because it's very useful for checking and troubleshooting compared with other products, like Nagios for example, that have some interaction with Oracle."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Enterprise Manager are the data guide and online monitoring."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"There are a number of different user interfaces you can choose from."
"It is a scalable solution. So far, my company has not faced any issues with the scalability part of the solution."
"I like that it's stable."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"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."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"One of the most valuable features are the reports. They're pretty good. Also, the ease of installation and customization for the client is another feature that we value. SolarWinds has a lot of features but these are the ones I like the most. We also like that the KPIs have the ability to be preset."
"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."
"We use the solution as a central monitoring tool. We use it to monitor every transaction that has a relation to the organization’s infrastructure."
"I would say mostly backup and recovery, through the Enterprise Manager. Or any corruptions, to be able to fix them through Enterprise Manager."
"They should improve the hover text context. This would provide assistance whenever a task is attempted by a DBA."
"Technical support could be more responsive."
"The product must improve its support team."
"Reporting and statistical charting is largely still left up the end-user to develop custom solutions."
"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager six out of 10 for affordability. It's expensive."
"We have encountered performance issues when the load is huge."
"The tool is expensive."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"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."
"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."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"The major concern in the product revolves around application performance monitoring since end-to-end application monitoring is not possible with the tool."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
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Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 4th in Server Monitoring with 123 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 10th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and Quest Foglight for Databases, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI. See our Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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