We performed a comparison between ManageEngine OpManager and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It helps us a lot for monitoring our servers in one console, instead of going to individual servers."
"Device monitoring is a good tool of this solution."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"The features we found most valuable in ManageEngine OpManager are the probe server and reporting because they're pretty good features."
"Flexibility in the two view dashboard helps viewers and admins get the information they need about the fetwork in a flash."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to reach most of our network devices and get the most from them."
"The alerting feature has improved our organization. We can create multiple alerts and refine them to how we need to use them."
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage and monitor the environment. Instead of being reactive, it's proactive."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The documentation is very good."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The pricing of the solution is high. They should work to adjust the pricing model to see if they can help reduce costs."
"ManageEngine OpManager could improve by having a better cloud presence."
"The solution's reports need to include the number of applications consumed."
"The dashboard has some limitations and should be more user-friendly."
"The main area for improvement for ManageEngine OpManager is its performance."
"The only problem with it is that the setup isn't very intuitive. I know that they just upgraded the product to make it a little bit easier to use, but compared to some of the other platforms, it is not easy to configure it, set it up, and get it running. However, once you have set it up and got it running, it runs great."
"We have been facing an issue since last year when a lot of our users started to work from home through their mobiles or computers. We are having trouble reaching these devices. We are now planning to publish our instance to the cloud so that we can reach these devices. Its performance should be improved in terms of the discovery of the devices. I would like to feel confident with the discovery that this solution does. For example, on my dashboard, I would like to be able to view a list of all devices seen on a specific server. At present, it is difficult to find such information. This would be an excellent feature to have."
"The storage level monitoring needs improvement. It needs storage level monitoring on the server itself. That feature is lacking right now."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"The interface needs some work."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
ManageEngine OpManager is ranked 15th in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. ManageEngine OpManager is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". ManageEngine OpManager is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and Meraki Dashboard, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, Nagios XI and SCOM. See our ManageEngine OpManager vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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