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."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"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."
"Identifying the problem statement is easy."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
"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."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
"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."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
"The major concern in the product revolves around application performance monitoring since end-to-end application monitoring is not possible with the tool."
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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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