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"The initial setup was fairly easy."

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"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint.""The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value.""I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast.""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.""The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause.""Solarwinds has an open database that allows you to do serious integrations. It doesn't matter which service desk you have, you can implement and integrate it with SolarWinds.""Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer.""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."

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"There are certain aspects of the configuration that could be simplified a bit."

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"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.""They should incorporate more artificial intelligence. There should also be more predictive features.""Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL.""I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers.""A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups.""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.""PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."

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  • "I have always said SolarWinds is very “proud” of their products, meaning they are expensive. I cannot afford to purchase all the licenses I need for all the SolarWinds products."
  • "When planning for the number of licenses to purchase, make sure you understand all of the elements within an application required to really understand performance well. In our case, we quickly came to the conclusion that an unlimited license for SAM was the way to go."
  • "Nagios XI, WhatsUpGold, Uptime Software, PRTG, Manage Engine, and SpiceWorks are the other tools that have lower pricing and licensing costs. However, they can't compete with SolarWinds when it comes to the features and functionality that SolarWinds can provide."
  • "I would advise potential buyers to wait until the end of the quarter, end of year, or other time to place orders. There are actually great deals to be had at those times if your budget cycle can match up."
  • "Pricing and licensing is fair for what you get. It does have a great bang-for-the-buck appeal."
  • "SAM is not per server so the pricing model can be deceiving. If you have an enterprise environment, you will quickly exceed your licensing quickly. You should know this before going in."
  • "Understanding the counts of objects to monitor will determine the licensing need. In terms of pricing, it’s not cheap but it’s not expensive as larger vendors whose products don’t have all the features or integrations."
  • "The product might cost you $30,000 USD to buy, but scaling this solution requires the purchase of additional polling engines at $20,000 USD each."
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    Overview

    Compuware Strobe is the industry-leading mainframe application performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications. With Strobe, IT departments can pinpoint application inefficiencies that cause excessive CPU consumption, elongated elapsed times and reduce hardware and software costs while increasing customer satisfaction.

    With Strobe, mainframe teams can:

    • Locate and improve resource-consumptive database calls
    • Identify tuning opportunities to reduce monthly software licensing costs (MLC)
    • Resolve performance issues before they impact application service levels
    • Apply analytics to captured data to produce reports showing high-resource consumption and applications that need tuning
    • Measure activity of both online and batch-processing applications in single and multiple- system environments
    • Identify several I/O problems, including inefficient VSAM file buffering
    • Create and schedule automatic, reusable measurements
    • Automatically detect performance problems by using a rolling average of CPU consumption and elapsed-time metrics

    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers powerful application and server monitoring capabilities for IT pros, enabling them to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues faster. Do not let slow applications and downtime impact your end-users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack. SolarWinds SAM is affordable and easy to deploy, use, and customize. You can automatically discover your system's environment and start monitoring in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.

    Sample Customers
    Chunghwa Telecom, Helvetia, Comerica Bank, Erste Group, Bank of Ireland, Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company (SFBCIC)
    Andr. L. Riis AS, NetSuite
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm31%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Insurance Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Construction Company14%
    Recruiting/Hr Firm7%
    Energy/Utilities Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization40%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise82%
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    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise49%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise48%
    Large Enterprise41%
    Buyer's Guide
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    BMC Compuware Strobe is ranked 59th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 19th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 36 reviews. BMC Compuware Strobe is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC Compuware Strobe writes "Stable with a good database and a good interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". BMC Compuware Strobe is most compared with IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS, IBM Application Performance Management and Mainframe Application Tuner, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery.

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