Popular Comparisons There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution.
The solution is quite mature and very stable.
Popular Comparisons I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings.
Popular Comparisons It is able to satisfy all our requirements in terms of email notifications and specific errors on the devices.
Network Discovery is a feature that our customers like a lot.
Popular Comparisons The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less.
The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual.
Popular Comparisons The quick drill-down views are similar to Wireshark views. Those are quite nice, with the views on how you interpret some of the data. The granularity of how far you can drill down into milliseconds or microseconds is a very nice feature. It actually stores quite a lot of data in its database.
Popular Comparisons Whenever we reach out to our customers, we give LogicMonitor as a dashboard to them so they don't need to monitor the hardware side separately. For example, if my service is running on their hardware X, that means they don't need to monitor hardware X and our services too. LogicMonitor has the capability of monitoring their hardware as well as our services. This is how LogicMonitor helps us.
Popular Comparisons It helps us determine what is going on with our Internet and who is hogging it all up. If we get a real high throughput or a throughput that's going over and getting dropped fairly quickly, we can tell who (or what device) is consuming that traffic.
Popular Comparisons I like the historical reporting of observer metrics.
I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory.
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We’ve switched from Solarwinds to Centreon even before the issue occurred. It’s way cheaper and is a good alternative and very flexible to your needs. You can play with it yourself.
Thousand Eyes acquired by Cisco, interesting synergies with AppDynamics APM.
Riverbed is also a great solution very easy to install and a great dashboard.
I have used both and have to say my experience with Connectwise was very good. Design for MSP's and when used with IT Glue and My It Process nice, accurate seamless.
We, at MapleLabs have developed best-of-the breed APM & Log mgmt. product SnappyFlow (https://www.snappyflow.io/#/). SnappyFlow is a unique APM & Log Monitoring application that brings together metrics, logs, tracing & synthetic monitoring in an elegant workflow and unified view. We work with SaaS companies having Cloud native applications that are micro services based, dispersed across VMs, Kubernetes & Cloud Services and straddle hybrid Clouds. SnappyFlow is best suited to optimize your cloud native apps, maximize the performance and availability of your cloud infrastructure. SnappyFlow is currently listed in AWS and vCenter marketplace and very cost-effective, scalable and flexible solution compared to its peers, including Cloudwatch. We're offering extended free trials till the time you're comfortable with the product. Please give it a thought. Thanks!
Please check out InfraonIMS from EverestIMS Technologies.
(https://www.everestims.com/inf...)
The major advantage is an integrated solution which not only monitors the complete IT Infra but also provides complete visibility into the ticket lifecycle for any issues detected via the PINK-Certified InfraonDesk ITSM engine.
From a security standpoint, the tool is OWASP Certified for higher levels of protection against malicious attacks.
The hackers targeted SolarWinds because SolarWinds has many customers. To minimize the risk of being hacked through one of your vendors, this suggests choosing unpopular vendors with few customers. Which is completely irrational.
Summary - this is a really hard problem and switching vendors does nothing to reduce your risk of this type of hack.
IBM Netcool is a great alterative, also available as a SaaS solution from https://rufusai.com