SolarWinds Observability SaaS
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Best tool for servers Admin
What do you like best about the product?
You have all the information that you need in only one single point. Solarwinds have the agents that help you to understand what is happening on your servers and not only the bare metal you can go until the application.
“This is one of the mandatories tools that all organization should have. Solarwind SAM helps us to see what was happening with our servers and application. They have several agents that help us to know better the behavior and follow from the server to the client. For better results you should add the other solarwinds components like Virtualization Manager, NPM, SRM, that will give you the big picture of all your infrastructure. The admin console is very easy to use and by default give you a lot information”
“This is one of the mandatories tools that all organization should have. Solarwind SAM helps us to see what was happening with our servers and application. They have several agents that help us to know better the behavior and follow from the server to the client. For better results you should add the other solarwinds components like Virtualization Manager, NPM, SRM, that will give you the big picture of all your infrastructure. The admin console is very easy to use and by default give you a lot information”
What do you dislike about the product?
You need an agent for each software that you have, if you have a database on your server you will need and agen for the database, if you need monitoring networking you should install a other agent.
You have to buy all the package to get better information, because if only buy the SAM, them you will need to know how is your network so you will need the NPM, them you need to see is is the storage so you will need that package.
You have to buy all the package to get better information, because if only buy the SAM, them you will need to know how is your network so you will need the NPM, them you need to see is is the storage so you will need that package.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The initial issue for all server admin is the not visibility or undertand what is happening in the server, not only when you are troubleshooting but also in your daily activities. So now with solarwind SAM we have that visibility and the understanding of what is happening.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Include other solarwinds product to get more information, also install the agent in each server in order to get better information.
An excellent server management tool. Highly recommended.
What do you like best about the product?
SAM allows you the peace of mind, knowing your servers are performing well. It highlights potential issues and even application issues that could be affecting the end user; before they complain. With alerting, Microsoft integration, historical statistics and more, SAM is a must for any server administrator. The built in templates are a great time saver but can also be customised to fit your infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
The SAM module can be costly especially when you starting more and more devices. Set up takes time, especially per device. When you manage more than 20 servers, it can take time to tweak accordingly. There is a slight learning curve to get the most out of the software, but it's worth the time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SAM allows us to keep downtime to a minimum and makes us more productive. It saves us so much time in the long run even if it takes a little while to get set up.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for great software to help you manage your server health and server applications, from Microsoft to Linux you need to seriously take a look at SAM. It helps us each day and helps us keep on top of maintenance and other mundane tasks.
SAM is a great tool
What do you like best about the product?
The amount of items that you can monitor.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes some time to get it working properly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our company mostly uses it to monitor Windows services. But with Solarwinds' community, I was able to monitor much more items such as O365, files sizes, etc.
SAM - A powerful tool to monitor virtual servers
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to monitor all types of servers, including virtual and physical servers
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't really have any dislikes or disadvantages for this module
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A view listing all servers used in production environment
Great for Monitoring all your applications
What do you like best about the product?
I am able to setup custom monitors to alert me if there are issues with my applications
What do you dislike about the product?
The only think i have run into an issue with (not really a dislike) is adding applications to monitor each part of the application being monitored is using what solarwinds calls elements in doing this we have had to purchase unlimited license. It is understandable they had to setup their pricing somehow though
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to get alerted when an application is down and be able to resolve the issue by restarting a service if it stops right in the SAM in solarwinds
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Using this has minimized our outages because we get notified when issues happen usually it is before we get notified by our internal users that there is an issue.
Flexibility meets demand
What do you like best about the product?
With SAM the Orion platform really feels like a Swiss Army knife. There is so much flexibility and the options are nearly limitless. It is very rare when I come across something I cannot monitor effectively.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see a way to define a service, and add subsets of servers, applications, components etc. Critical KPIs that make up the service. I know you can kind of do this with Groups today, but it's not quite the same and the Availability reporting with Groups isn't nearly as good as what we can get with SAM. So getting that same functionality with SAM would be great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring of Server and Virtual infrastructure. I'm now monitoring Office 365 products as well, leveraging the MS API and powershell capabilities of SAM. This allows us to alert on the Office 365 products, when currently there isn't a native solution for alerts (except SMS) from Microsoft.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great Product that can fill many many gaps with all the flexibility it can offer. This product however, is not an APM so do not look for it to solve that issue.
Another great Solarwinds product. NCM will make your life easier.
What do you like best about the product?
Scheduling back ups and knowing that they are being done is a great load off your mind. Knowing that not only do you have a backup, but you have several versions of that back to refer to if need be, is also a great peace. NCM saves us so much time and allows us to send config to multiple devices in a matter of minutes, which not only saves times, but gets things up and running in no time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Per device NCM can be time consuming, especially if those devices do not have SNMP set up. As you have to rely on SNMP, this can sometimes get frustrating. It is also quite expensive as you grow in your IT infrastructure due to licensing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has saved us time being the biggest problem solver. It has helped us keep regular backups without anyone having to do anything manually. It helps get switches and routers back up and running in no time, as we can restore configs in a few clicks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's an excellent module and will save you so much time. If you're backing up, reporting, need alerts on changes or simply pushing one line of config to all your devices, NCM does it seamlessly. Worth the investment.
A View from the Top
What do you like best about the product?
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) allows you to get a view from the top of your systems. The ability to drill down and view what is going on at the process, port level is great. The appLinsight provides a great level of detail. You can prove why "It's the apps not hardware"" to management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Requires a bit of work to setup and get configured. Sales force is a pain in the butt.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Why SQL is causing so much problems and come to find out it's run away queries.
Game Changer
What do you like best about the product?
Previously we used a different product to monitor our environment and it was very limited in what it could do and there was no reporting features. The best thing I like the most about SAM is the single pane of glass to view everything about a server and the applications that you are monitoring. I also like that Solarwinds is always upgrading their products and the integration between their products is very handy and makes determining issues very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing that I feel is lacking in this product is the report building. I feel like it has not changed much over the progression of the product and I feel other products I have used offered easier report and graph building.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Due to the relatively low cost in comparison to the previous product we used we were able to purchase the ALX licenses so we are not able to monitor all of our servers and applications. In addition we can now correlate events across systems to determine where the bottle neck is and helps us reduce down time and system performance issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
In comparison to what's out there I feel for the money they offer a great product that does everything we need and more.
MySAM
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to monitor all of my servers and the applications that reside on them.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much, it pretty much provides us with what we need
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were very diverse and really had no insight into the various applications we run so now being able to look at them and categorize them has bee a great help
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would strongly recommend this product along with the whole Solar Winds suite of products
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