Before we started using ControlUp at the hospitals, we relied on Solarwinds and Citrix Director. Solarwinds alerting was inconsistent plus as healthcare is 24/7 with many thousands of launches a day, if something went wrong we would be informed with a high severity ticket before Solarwinds would alert us. Citrix Director was far too basic for our needs. It was ok for showing Client Connection failures and as a very primitive help desk tool BUT was not fit for our needs. ControlUp gave us a genuinely real-time monitoring tool that alerts as an issue arises but best of all, we have Automated Actions setup to fix issues as they arise. We no longer get called at 3am after patching because Solarwinds alerted that disk space was running low on our management servers. We now have ControlUp trigger a cleanup of old logs and update cache as a threshold is passed. We are also using some other automated actions for dealing with some of our mundane maintenance work and even helping to provide an extra layer of security by logging off idle admin account sessions on management servers. The ability to view sessions which have been idle has also completely changed our approach to our Epic RAs. We are able to pre-stage our servers more effectively and make better use of the capacity we have. It helps us have enough servers on the new PVS vDisk already before we even get to the schedule downtime. As my title says, ControlUp is more than just a monitoring product. It is a really excellent management framework for us.

Where there are many functions of ControlUP that are exceptional (that answer could be answer to the question). The ability to navigate many systems and make system wide modifications, such as to the registry and the file systems is very nice, but the customizability of management, monitoring and notification of literally anything is very nice