We performed a comparison between ManageEngine ADManager Plus and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Active Directory Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The scalability is also good. ADManager Plus is being used by seven to eight system administrators right now, and it has been working fine."
"Makes it easy to administer your active directory."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use, the ability for us to customize the access privileges for the users, and integration with ServiceDesk Plus."
"The solution provides oversight, reports, and logs that are easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature for me is automation."
"The solution offers very good reports for management purposes."
"It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"It is a stable solution."
"The application dependency feature identifies issues between applications and servers or within the network where the application is hosted. It highlights related problems, whether related to packet processing or other issues, enabling the creation of alerts and reports accordingly."
"Identifying the problem statement is easy."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"One of the most valuable features are the reports. They're pretty good. Also, the ease of installation and customization for the client is another feature that we value. SolarWinds has a lot of features but these are the ones I like the most. We also like that the KPIs have the ability to be preset."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"Manage Groups: The capability to group appropriate devices gives better visibility of sites, categories, or critical regions. The same can be used to represent a dashboard for higher management."
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"The solution should be made tablet friendly because it works well on iPhones and Android phones, but does not work on tablets."
"It would be nice if the solution offered some sort of brochure with some high-level information that would help sell it to management. If they had details around how much time it saves an engineer, for example, to show the ROI, it would be helpful."
"The solution is very complex, especially when there's an active directory of more than 1,000 users, which makes it hard to administrate. They need to improve the management of the administrative process."
"Other products have more flexibility and integration in managing identities."
"With the number of available integrations these days, it would be beneficial to have more ready-to-integrate technologies in other products as well."
"I think the cost of this product is a little higher than I would expect."
"Some things are not very intuitive."
"There is room for improvement in support, they should work on overall competence and turn-around time."
"There is one feature that is a report writer. And they are currently trying to take it out from being a stand-alone application and integrating to the web. This doesn't give us the flexibility and it doesn't expand what we can get when it comes to reporting. So, putting it on the web is going to make it difficult to get some information. Leaving it where it is now will help us a lot."
"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 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."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve by having a cloud version. They have an observability platform but it still needs to be maintained by us."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"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."
"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
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ManageEngine ADManager Plus is ranked 1st in Active Directory Management with 13 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 8th in Active Directory Management with 38 reviews. ManageEngine ADManager Plus is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ManageEngine ADManager Plus writes "An effective auditing solution that scours your AD and produces easy-to-understand logs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". ManageEngine ADManager Plus is most compared with One Identity Active Roles, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADAudit Plus and Microsoft Active Directory, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery. See our ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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