We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager 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."I like a lot of the reporting capabilities and baseline configurations."
"The solution is stable."
"Technical support is very helpful and very responsive."
"It lets you know what your infrastructure is like and what state you are in."
"This solution helps us by automating the patching of our system."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is valuable in keeping our systems updated. We are able to send updates to all the systems. Additionally, the Intune integration is helpful."
"I like Mircosoft's technical support. Microsoft has a few updates, like some of the critical KBs. They are published within the interval time, and in case of an escalation on the client missions, we will raise a ticket with the Microsoft team. They will create a hotfix or a critical update. They will chat with us, and that is one thing I like about Microsoft. Whenever any issues occur at my organization, they will help you out soon as possible within the SLA."
"It uses detailed descriptions of the workstations, and that is good for me."
"The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"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."
"This product can monitor application environments no matter where they reside and provides capabilities for deep insight into infrastructure."
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"I want the system to provide some dependency relations. I would also like to see the relationship between different machines."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager could improve the integration."
"The product needs to improve scalability."
"I currently need to increase my compliance level in the patching processes which this solution could improve on."
"Cloud-based improvements need to be better managed."
"It needs to be able to load faster during deployment."
"The solution can be improved with the addition of a mobile device manager."
"The solution does not support remote devices so the CMG is still required."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"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."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 76 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 12th in Server Monitoring with 36 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Grafana. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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