We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor provides more extensive monitoring capabilities, infrastructure dependency mapping, and powerful network devices' performance monitoring, making it the preferred solution. Although WhatsUp Gold is stable, easy to set up, and cost-effective, it lacks code-level monitoring of applications and software-defined network monitoring capability.
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"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."
"We use the solution as a central monitoring tool. We use it to monitor every transaction that has a relation to the organization’s infrastructure."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its powerful monitoring capabilities."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"It is stable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"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."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"The interface needs some work."
"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."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"The product is old and not updated."
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SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 36th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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