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."The monitoring of the applications to let our business know when things are performing and that they're up and available."
"The real value is our being able to pull all the historic data that we need in order to gather every little metric and nuanced piece of information from a given device, a given piece of infrastructure, in order for us to generate alerts."
"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."
"It's easy to push out across numerous servers. Very scalable."
"It reduced cycles for a lot of quick out-of-the-box functionality. It also allowed us to get away from being stuck in SNMP, VTP V2, based off of agent deployment."
"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."
"It is easy to implement."
"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."
"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."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"I adore the NTA module that provides deep details on ingress/egress traffic for any interface. With a few clicks, you can correlate who is accessing what and when, beside the bandwidth consuming applications/users."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"I think it can be improved by a greater provision of specialized technical support, as there are very few trained personnel there."
"We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue."
"We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level."
"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."
"Within this product there are individual probes, and each of these probes doesn't always necessarily output the same kind of information into our database. So when we try to collect what's called QoS data, from one probe we might get a ton of information, lots of good stuff that we can use in our database, but then from another probe, we might not get so much or we might not be able to pull the things that we want to."
"It is a little complex to use versus other softwares."
"Stability."
"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"The current script monitoring feature has limitations, especially when dealing with custom scripts."
"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."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
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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 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 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 Zabbix, 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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