We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Pingdom and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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."One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."
"The current script monitoring feature has limitations, especially when dealing with custom scripts."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"One area that could benefit from improvement is its performance"
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"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."
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SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 2 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 19th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews. SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "The component and cable monitoring features are good, but the interface is slow ". SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor, Grafana, New Relic and Catchpoint, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery. See our SolarWinds Pingdom vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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