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Updated 15th April 2024
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It Associate
30B + USD, SoftwareFAVORABLE
“The Pragmatic Bridge: Merging Deep Network DNA with Cloud-Native Clarity through Service-First Intelligence”
One of the most unique features is Platform Connect. While most vendors require a "rip-and-replace" approach to move to the cloud, SolarWinds allows us to link our Self-Hosted on-premise environment directly to the SaaS platform.
SENIOR ENGINEER
30B + USD, BankingCRITICAL
“A monitoring "Jack of all trades, master of none"”
Solarwinds does the basics of monitoring well, but it can often be clunky, slow and unintuitive. It does the basics of what you'd expect a monitoring tool to do, well, in terms of polling, general ping and snmp feedback of devices, but you will spend most of your time waiting for it to load or refresh, or getting frustrated in trying to organise different graphs and views of the data you want. The tooling in theory is great, but it is hamstrung by it's GUI and slow nature. It also appears to be a product that requires a lot of attention in terms of patching/hotfixes.
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SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) provides simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software built to enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation. Our solutions provide organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—with a comprehensive and unified view of today’s modern, distributed, and hybrid environments. We continuously engage with IT service and operations professionals, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and database administrators (DBAs) to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available hybrid IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, help us to address customers’ needs in solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management now and in the future.
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Public
Year Founded
1999
Head office location
Austin, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Annual Revenue
500M-1B USD
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The Pragmatic Bridge: Merging Deep Network DNA with Cloud-Native Clarity through Service-First Intelligence
One of the most unique features is Platform Connect. While most vendors require a "rip-and-replace" approach to move to the cloud, SolarWinds allows us to link our Self-Hosted on-premise environment directly to the SaaS platform. - It Associate50M-1B USDMiscellaneousReview Source
Flexible dashboards and integration set SolarWinds apart.
My experience with SolarWinds has been very good, especially in environments that needed to consolidate infrastructure, application, and network monitoring into a single view. The platform delivers good operational visibility and greatly assists in the proactive identification of incidents, particularly in hybrid operations with on-premises and cloud environments. - Storage Lead Datacenter50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Extensive observability, but a steep initial technical learning curve.
It offers a fairly broad view of the environment, which is useful when dealing with hybrid or multicloud systems. This helps to clearly identify problems, especially regarding performance and logical failures. - Manager, It Security And Risk Management1B-10B USDSoftwareReview Source
Single dashboard simplifies management
My overall experience with solarwinds observability has been positive, in terms of system integration, configuration management and automation. Signigicantly enhances cross-domain monitoring and simplifies correlation of events across systems. From a configuration management perspective, solarwinds observability offers flexible configuration options for monitoring policies, alert thresholds and data sources. Overall, solarwinds is a capable and reliabe solution for organisations seeking integrated monitoring and automation. - Director Of Engineering10B+ USDSoftwareReview Source
Unified monitoring streamlines workflows, but proper planning is required for setup
It provides a unified view across applications, infrastructure, network, database and user experience, helping us quickly performance issues across hybrid environments in a single pane of glass rather jumping on multiple monitoring tools
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