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Adya charan D.
AD
Support Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"All OK"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

Its good for Mnitoring servers and creating an auto tickets its good . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

Resource Monitoring is very Good even its auto recovered the mesage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rishabh P.
RP
Lead Network Consultant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Matured product for your device monitoring"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

We are a user of Solarwinds NPM from last 3+ years. This product is allowing us to monitor 700+ Virtual Firewalls of different vendors hosted as NFV devices on prem. We are able to monitor and act immediately using its integration to create tickets on salesforce and trigger emails. We are also able to generate reports using its easy to use feature. This helps in generating reports and sharing with upper management for review. In simple words, it does best whats its supposed to do and brings ease for the users in implementing. Auto discovery is one great feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

Although it has a bigger community where you can find answers to your questions. However, their customer support is not that great. We feel that there is huge delay in raising query vs getting response back from them, We are a regular user of this product..almost daily basis and so we need them to provide us immediate response when in need so that we solve the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Building Materials
UB
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"All in One"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

The cloud observability is just amazing, it does everything for me from managing to scaling and from monitoring to contolling. It seems there is no where else to go for my application for such simple implementation and integration. Even the customer support is very effective in terms of reply and efficiency. I recommend to some who is looking for standalone platform to manage cloud services for their application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

According to me only one thing I was little dissappointed which is pricing. May for someone its fair with large application to handle but not for everyone. Also, the frequency of the usage needs to be monitor at every stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Manufacturing
AM
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great product by solar winds"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

The option to work off line means that it can plug into our OT enviroment, and prodive great visiablity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

Linking the dashboards can require a lot of work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MH
Cyber Security Operations Managed Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"I have 8 months experience"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

It helps to detect and analyz our networks.We use it to monitor our routers, switches and Firewalls.

We use to manage hardware helthand and update hardware health statistics in deployed SolarWinds Platform.

It's easy to use because it has very simple of GUI.

When we need to configure or have a problem we call support to solve it so this is helpfull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

we do not have access to configure some features and customize any thing that help us in our work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great experience and value from SolarWinds"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

Ease of use and ability to fully customize to fit my environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

Performance can be quite slow sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris W.
CW
Senior Consultant / Architect
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Can be free and full of features"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

It's easy to use with the free subscription. It's easy to integrate with Ubiquiti Unifi UDM and many features for the price. I use it daily to get an idea of the health of my network including firewall rules, router and switch issues and more. To implement, I just had to put the url into my UDM. After I figured out how I want to use the log, I save processing and data by putting filter logs directly in papertrail in order to prevent it counting useless data to my data cap. Prices for adding additional log processing is low and on demand which makes it easy to only pay for what you get. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

It wasn't easy to figure out how to do the log filters with severity. At first, it is easy to put in strings to exclude from the filters, but I still haven't figured out how to filter out severity when the severity text is not actually in the string. It is a number.

I would love to see a feature to help find anomalies and security issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nestor Azael  O.
NO
Cyber Security Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"SolarWinds Your comprehensive solution for critical Servers and applications"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

What I like is the ability to automate tasks and responses to alerts, allowing for the configuration of custom actions to resolve issues without the need for human intervention. The flexibility to integrate with other SolarWinds and third-party tools is a standout feature, providing the capability to expand monitoring capabilities. Additionally, it offers a wide range of reporting and analytical capabilities, enabling the evaluation of performance over time, identifying trends, and making informed decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

Some of the updates or maintenance of this tool can be complex, especially in environments with multiple instances or customizations. In very large and complex implementations, you may encounter challenges in terms of scalability and performance. Managing multiple instances can be a bit intricate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Madhawa T.
MT
Technical Sales Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Get the full control of your Network to your fingertips"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

Performance Analyzer (PerfStack) and NetPath are my favorite features of NPM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

Complex licensing. ( Yes, they are moving in to simple node based licensing) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Charan B.
CB
Virtualization Engineer -Domain Expert -WILP
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Solarwinds VMAN is relieving from manual chores"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

The best thing I like is VM Sprawl. With VM sprawl notifications and suggestions, we can rapidly reclaim virtual resources. To clear up storage capacity, VMAN can automatically discover orphaned VMDKs, stale, and zombie VMs and we can review and delete them. You can further cut costs by right-sizing your virtual machines with the help of VMAN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

Setting up SolarWinds VMAN is a tough task.Their support is not to mark. Also we were not able to integrate our VROPs with it due to compatibility issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

16 months

Average Discount

12%

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