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The hierarchical grouping for OT devices is still pretty manual. Every time maintenance swaps a sensor or adds a new actuator I have to go rebuild the tree structure by hand, and if you forget one sub-group the maps look like a jigsaw with missing pieces. It’s not a deal-breaker, but after a busy shutdown week it feels like busywork that should be smarter by now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We used to fly blind on predictive maintenance—machines would just fail and we’d scramble. Now PRTG gives us trending curves I can actually show the maintenance guys in plain English. We cut unplanned downtime by roughly 40 % on the critical lines and shaved about 18 % off our quarterly energy bill because we finally saw which machines were idling at full power overnight. The ROI showed up in the first six months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like less are the presentations and the reports; they are somewhat cumbersome and, well, content-wise okay, but could be better in terms of presentation. When creating reports and adding content, error messages sometimes occur, and the format often needs to be adjusted so that, for example, the display in the PDF does not have certain tables exceeding one page, and similar, more visual things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use checkmk for monitoring and inventory analysis; it quickly reports issues like CPU or disk usage. It helps to intervene proactively and automatically opens tickets, which is especially useful when different departments work together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the platform is powerful, initial configuration and fine-tuning can take time, especially for complex environments. Some advanced features have a learning curve, and dashboard customization could be more flexible in certain use cases. Pricing may also be a consideration for smaller teams, and deeper integrations with some third-party tools could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SolarWinds Observability helps solve challenges related to limited visibility across infrastructure, application performance issues, delayed incident detection, and slow root cause analysis. It benefits us by providing proactive monitoring, faster troubleshooting, reduced downtime, improved system reliability, and better operational efficiency. It also helps optimize performance, support capacity planning, and improve the overall stability of business-critical services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only two things!

1.- There is no template support to apply to hosts... like in Zabbix or Centreon!

2.- It's a bit difficult to interact with Grafana. (It's possible, but not easy for all users)

3.- Maybe some integrations are missed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It helps us to collect disparate data such as veeam backup status, sql tasks, acronis tasks, failed login, successful login, number of open/sg processes... All disparate data that comes together on the same platform. Based on this data we make decisions and act on the machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike about ManageEngine Applications Manager is that its initial setup and configuration can be complex and time-consuming, especially for large environments, and the user interface can feel cluttered or outdated at times; additionally, integration with third-party tools is somewhat limited, advanced features may require higher licensing tiers, and users often report excessive alert noise that needs fine-tuning, along with occasional performance issues and gaps in documentation or support responsiveness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ManageEngine Applications Manager helps solve key problems like lack of visibility across complex IT environments, unexpected downtime, and slow issue resolution by providing real-time monitoring of applications, servers, databases, and cloud services from a single platform; it proactively detects performance issues and bottlenecks before they impact users, enables faster root cause analysis, and reduces mean time to repair, which ultimately improves system availability and user experience. This benefits me by minimizing service disruptions, reducing manual troubleshooting effort, optimizing resource usage, and allowing the team to focus more on proactive maintenance rather than reactive firefighting, leading to better operational efficiency and more reliable business services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Difficult to visually monitor entire infrastructure at a time, cannot differentiate between important and less priority alerts unless specified. Database hangs sometimes in case of overload and need mysql reboot. Key configuration is difficult procedure and need lot of learning about regular expressions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can monitor our infrastructure efficiently with this tool. It sends email alerts when our services have issues, and it lets us monitor CPU levels with core-level details for our entities. Overall, it’s highly reliable and performs well for monitoring resources. We can also set it up for free, which makes it more cost-effective for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not possible to put nothing, so if something really needs to be criticized, it would be the handling of BAM and MBI, which can be off-putting at first. But once the necessary learning stage is passed, the tool becomes truly powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Centreon allows us to have a comprehensive view of the health status of our infrastructure and to detect many incidents before they become real problems. The assistance in diagnosing during serious incidents is also a major asset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Splunk Enterpirse Solution's Daily Log Data size cap is bit low for the Global Enteprise Organizations running Thousands of critical workloads. Splunk Enterprise Solution's yearly Renewal costs are high. New Users Need formal Training to support efficiently and to manage the Splunk Platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Enterprise Log management, E2E Infrastructure Observability Platform , URL monitoring, Digital User experience monitoring, SLO,SLA improvement. Root Cause Analysis during critical incidents. To create Capacity Management Dashboards. Leadership Dashboards for Applications Uptime SLA's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main area that could be improved is the initial learning curve. Instana provides a large amount of data, but the interface can feel quite dense when you first start using it, especially when navigating between services, traces, infrastructure metrics, and incidents. It was not always immediately clear which view was best for a particular task, such as investigating a slow transaction, checking infrastructure health, or understanding the dependencies between services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use IBM Instana for real-time application performance monitoring, reducing investigation time, identifying bottlenecks faster, and understanding issue impacts across our environment. It solves problems with limited visibility in complex applications by connecting traces, metrics, and dependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.