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“Reliable Network Monitoring and Observability with Strong operational visibility”
“A monitoring "Jack of all trades, master of none"”
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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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The key strength of SolarWinds Observability is its comprehensive network monitoring capabilities> The platform offers real time visibility into network devices, intuitive dashboards and configurable alerts, which help in proactive issue detection and faster troubleshooting. Ease of deployment and centralized management are additional advantages that add value for day-to-day operations.
The IPAM tooling built into Solarwinds is OK, but you can get better products dedicated to that. In terms of monitoring, the simple stuff such as ping and snmp polling is easy enough to configure. Getting devices hooked into Solarwinds is managable.
The best part I like about this product is that it bring everything together such as server, application, cloud and network monitoring. I really like the real time alerts, which helps us to fixes before they turn into major problems. It is saving my lots of times.
While the overall experience is positive, initial alert configuration and fine tuning may require some effort in complex environments. Additionally, understanding licensing and feature scope at the beginning can take time for new customers.
The UI is slow and clunky. You will spend most of your time waiting for Solarwinds to refresh, or trying to figure out why your graphs aren't working as expected. It can be difficult and frustrating to set up custom configurations. It feels like it is trying to do too many things, almost Jack of All Trades, instead of being a master of one.
It is observed that some part of the interface can feel a bit confusing or overwhelming for the new user who using this product first time. it takes some time for them to fully understand the product.
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- Technical Manager<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Reliable Network Monitoring and Observability with Strong operational visibility
SolarWinds Observability has been deployed for one of our customers and provided a stable and effective platform for monitoring and managing network devices. Overall, the experience has been positive, particularly in terms of visibility into network performance, device health and proactive alerting. It has helped the customer improve operational monitoring and quickly identify network-related issues. - Security Architecture50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
A reliable monitoring Tool that improves visibility and reduce downtime
It has hepled us to monitor our IT systems more effectively in one central place. it gives a clear picture of how our application,server and network are performing in real time. The dashboard are easy to understand and alerts help us quickly catch the problems before they affect our users .setting us it was smooth and the support team was helpful whenever we had any questions. - IT- SECURITY1B-10B USDBankingReview Source
Best Monitoring tool for network devices
Extend visibility across cloud native, on-prem, and hybrid deployments. - SENIOR ENGINEER10B+ USDBankingReview Source
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. - IT Infrastructure Architect50M-1B USDServices (non-Government)Review Source
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We've used SolarWinds for a number of years, we use this alongside our network provider and has helped us to get deep insights into what's happening with our network equipment, both current and historical, with the ability to configure alerts for when devices go offline. Most of the options are very customizable.