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."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"Identifying the problem statement is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"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."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"It is simple to implement and can provide fairly decent Windows-based monitoring, beyond simple SNMP. It is great for monitoring newbies and smaller shops."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
"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."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"The current script monitoring feature has limitations, especially when dealing with custom scripts."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."
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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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