We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor provides more extensive monitoring capabilities, infrastructure dependency mapping, and powerful network devices' performance monitoring, making it the preferred solution. Although WhatsUp Gold is stable, easy to set up, and cost-effective, it lacks code-level monitoring of applications and software-defined network monitoring capability.
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."
"The solution can be deployed quickly."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"SolarWinds is a very stable platform compared to others on the market."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The documentation is very good."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"It is stable."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"The product needs to reduce its price."
"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."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"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."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
"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."
"There is one feature that is a report writer. And they are currently trying to take it out from being a stand-alone application and integrating to the web. This doesn't give us the flexibility and it doesn't expand what we can get when it comes to reporting. So, putting it on the web is going to make it difficult to get some information. Leaving it where it is now will help us a lot."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"The product is old and not updated."
"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."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"The interface needs some work."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"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."
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SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 17th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". 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". SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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