We performed a comparison between SolarWinds AppOptics and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The documentation is very good."
"It is stable."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"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."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The interface needs some work."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 43rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 36th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 21 reviews. SolarWinds AppOptics is rated 7.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "Accurate network monitoring, but tech support is lacking". SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and New Relic, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our SolarWinds AppOptics vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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