We performed a comparison between DX Unified Infrastructure Management 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."Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics."
"The number of probes available. Out of the box, I believe about 200 probes are available. And, if there's a probe that is not available, you can write one. You can also go to the communities and suggest, and based on demand, CA will write one for you."
"Technical support is great."
"Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."
"I recall the initial setup being straightforward."
"I definitely appreciate the flexibility and ease of use. We've been using UIM for almost three years now. It's pretty much point and click, very easy to use. And we've had no problems scaling it to our own environment."
"Having all of our information within one tool set; our alerts, our monitors, and the things that our operations team needs to function."
"It is very scalable."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"SolarWinds is a very stable platform compared to others on the market."
"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"The solution is end-to-end from the network and the application to the processes. Everything about the enterprise infrastructure is being covered by the solution. It's easy to use and easy to navigate and one of the leaders among monitoring solutions."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"Management Console - Managing service to each server enrolled in the Solarwinds is much easier. Using a web base console, you can control your service much convenient way. There is no need to login remotely. It save a lot of time and effort."
"A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer."
"We've had issues with pulling reports."
"Reporting capability can be improved especially when it comes to availability."
"The company has not kept pace with developments."
"It is a little complex to use versus other softwares."
"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"I think it can be improved by a greater provision of specialized technical support, as there are very few trained personnel there."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"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."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"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."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"The current script monitoring feature has limitations, especially when dealing with custom scripts."
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 14th in Server Monitoring with 120 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 12th in Server Monitoring with 36 reviews. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager and WhatsUp Gold, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery. See our DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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