Infrastructure Monitoring Tools Reviews and Ratings

We went through a screening/demo testing process to find a network monitoring & management tool that would fit best within our organization. OpManager ticked all our boxes. As our business grew, we have evolved and needed additional features and integrations to be able to continue at this high pace. The great news is that OpManager developers were busy too and the product was evolving in line with our needs. Today, we have it integrated with our internal systems and all of the tasks are fully automated.

My overall experience is great. The tool is easy to manage and set with your own preferences. I'm using it to monitor all the internal devices status and several services.

Great monitoring, alerting, and reporting tool - a must have!

Solar Winds NPM is great product to have up to date clear picture about current network health and utilization. It is helpful for quick reaction is something unwanted, unpanned happened in the network.

Zabbix is a great monitoring tool. We are currently using the 6.X LTS version (the 7 is already published), we previuosly had the 4 and the 5 ones installed on centos machines. Zabbix runs on Linux system, there is a lot of documentation about how to install it and how create monitoring items. And there is also a huge (and great) community to ask for help (and give suggestions). There are lots of templates to choose from. You can monitor your machines (clients, servers, printers, switches, firewalls...) via agent, via SNMP or via IPMI. Create an host and set its IP and the template you desire, data will start to be collected (for some templates you have to follow certain procedures). The agent on windows and linux machine can be passive (zabbix server asks for data) or active (the machine sends data to zabbix server). You can also monitor you WMware nodes and not only the metrics of the hardware of you machines. For example you can be informed via trigger if a windows user is locked or event log is wiped, for better security. There are regular updates, just be sure to take a snapshot before proceeding. You can create many users and assign them several roles, create group and choose what to notify and how. When an item has a value that is not what expected, the trigger will show on dashboard (you can set many dashboard with the information you want to be displayed, there are many widgets to chooose from); if the problems goes away generally the trigger will auto-close. You can create and customize your own templates, items and triggers (you can clone them to save time). You can create maps, graphs, look at the last data, do exports (csv format), switch from white to dark theme, customize with your logo. You can install a zabbix proxy for an easier remote data collection.

I feel like Datadogs observability platform is massively beneficial in our incident response and new developer onboarding process. Their suite of services continuously provides us with valuable insight for managing our day-to-day operations, including deployment monitoring and understanding the flows of our various microservices.

Nagios XI is a great monitoring product that I have been running in production for many years. Nagios XI provides the Nagios platform with the simplicity of a virtual appliance deployment and management.

Dynatrace has been a great platform for observability, leading with innovation and listening to feedback from customers.

Provides excellent visibility into network traffic flows for various environments. The additional platforms and collectors provides a more seamless deployment.

1) Easy to set-up and implement. 2) Easy to use (user friendly interface) 3) Vendor support / assistance is immediate. 4) It helps us to optimize network resources and ensure efficient bandwidth utilization. 5) It also supports different vendor device (juniper,fortinet,cisco) 6) It helps us to find which apps, device, user are using most internet so we can manage them better. 7) Easy to upgrade with new features.

The LogicMonitor Envision solution is dynamic and easy to manage. The support teams are prompt and efficient, and the simplicity in deployment and administration enables us to provide an efficient and cost effective solution to the business.

Great Solution to monitor the status of all the Servers and Devices integrated with WhatsUpGold with respect to "Availability", "Disk Utilization", "Memory Utilization" etc, to act immediately and appropriately in case of any incident where the Servers and Devices are not available or reachable.

Excellent product GUI and advanced features. It provides a solution to rectify the network and DNS-related issues. Awesome support team and efficient in troubleshooting.One step away for chat support.

Product is fantastic, helps resolve both known and unknown issues

Potential Benefits :- Unified Platform :- its consolidates data from various sources for security and broader enterprise analytics, promoting collaboration between teams. Scalability: The platform is designed to handle massive amounts of data (Petabytes) in real-time, making it suitable for large organizations. Security Focus: SentinelOne Prioritizes data security and privacy, which is crucial for sensitive information.

Kentik is the go-to for network performance monitoring. They are the best for ingesting BGP flow data and being able to use the analytics behind it to make network scaling decisions on the back end. Using this data has helped us troubleshoot DDOS's, problematic customers, when to move public peers private and transit/transport bandwidth increase/cost allocation.

After a lot of research, my team and I found Site24x7 to be the best solution for monitoring our suite of software and infrastructure. The tools are easy to use, and there is coverage for all of our technologies.

It's a one stop shop for all our monitoring needs. I set up our website and our API servers to monitor and got notified when one of our Prod API went down. It was great to know that we will always get to know about such incidents as soon as they happen and it greatly reduces our MTTR.

Overall we have extensive experience with Microsoft Operations Manager, even before the time it was added to a System Center products family. Primarily we have been using it for monitoring of Windows based environments and applications running on Windows. Network components, storage units or Hypervisors (excluding Hyper-V) were never a strong area of SCOM natively. 3rd party monitoring packs were required to add this functionality to SCOM.

This product can monitor our network traffic in or out company.