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SolarWinds Observability Overview

What is SolarWinds Observability?

SolarWinds® Observability is a full-stack observability solution that addresses the needs of modern organizations of all sizes by providing deep visibility into their hybrid ecosystems while affording the utmost flexibility in how their solution is deployed. SolarWinds Observability delivers expanded monitoring and management of both on-prem and cloud environments to help you optimize performance and ensure availability across today’s modern, distributed hybrid IT infrastructures. With built-in intelligence leveraging AIOps-powered capabilities, SolarWinds Observability is designed to accelerate issue remediation by helping you detect, troubleshoot, and resolve problems faster and more efficiently. Key Benefits: - Reduce downtime and improve service reliability with comprehensive, full-stack hybrid IT visibility: Gain a holistic view of your networks, on-prem and cloud infrastructure, applications, logs, digital user experience, databases, and security (some capabilities require additional purchase and integration with other SolarWinds products). - Flexibility to monitor and observe your way: Our service is available in two deployment options (self-hosted and SaaS) to suit your needs. While both options provide comprehensive visibility across hybrid IT environments, our self-hosted option integrates with other self-hosted SolarWinds services, such as security and storage monitoring. In contrast, our SaaS option delivers deeper monitoring for custom and cloud-based applications and user experience. - Increase operational efficiency with built-in intelligence and ever-evolving AI/ML: SolarWinds is continually enhancing its machine learning capabilities, including advanced predictive analysis, which can help prevent issues before they impact your customers. In addition, anomaly-based alerts and log pattern analysis improve decision-making and reduce the time it takes to troubleshoot a problem. - Reduce costs: Eliminate the need for multiple monitoring tools with a single, integrated solution.

SolarWinds Observability Details
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SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability is a full-stack observability solution designed to integrate data from across IT on-premise and multi-cloud environments. The solution includes built-in intelligence designed to help customers optimize performance, ensure availability, and reduce remediation time across IT infrastructures. It is intended for all organizations and industries. Hybrid Cloud Observability is designed to: - Help users resolve issues quicker with better visibility of the environment - Deliver value across the organization with increased efficiency accruing from proactive responsiveness

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Many monitoring and observability solutions in the market today focus on either on-prem or cloud architecture, forcing IT organizations to prioritize one environment over the other. Organizations often end up relying on multiple disparate solutions to manage the different aspects of their technology stack, leading to information siloes and visibility gaps. SolarWinds® Observability brings 25 years of innovation and experience in monitoring and observability technologies to deliver expanded monitoring and management of both on-prem and cloud environments. The solution helps organizations reduce tool sprawl, accelerate issue resolution, gain deployment flexibility, and be cloud-ready.


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Year Founded
1999
HQ Location
Austin, TX
Twitter
@solarwinds
20,054 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
2,655 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NYSE: SWI
Description

SolarWinds provides powerful and affordable IT management software to customers worldwide from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses.


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nguyen t.
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nguyen t.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"It's conise and useful to manage server and network"
give the error right away if anything changes
Adya charan D.
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Adya charan D.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"All OK"
Its good for Mnitoring servers and creating an auto tickets its good .
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great service, graphs and charts to see by the minute updates to help monitor your data."
The feature i like most are the pie charts and maps, they are very easy to read and you can glance at them to get a lot of info on my data. Also cu...
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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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.

What problems is SolarWinds Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

ability to perform complex actions for monitoring and resolution to low level alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris W.
CW
Senior Consultant / Architect
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
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.

What problems is SolarWinds Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Detect issues with port scans and IPs that constantly hit my router. Port flapping and STP issues. Router or switch errors and configuration issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nestor Azael  O.
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Cyber Security Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
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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.

What problems is SolarWinds Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

SolarWinds is addressing monitoring by the SOC for the customer's deployed equipment to have first-degree control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Madhawa T.
MT
Technical Sales Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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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.

What problems is SolarWinds Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

It help our IT to be proactive on what is happning on our Network and the systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Charan B.
CB
Virtualization Engineer -Domain Expert -WILP
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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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.

What problems is SolarWinds Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Many of the functions are very easy to use and require little setting after installation. It's really simple to go around because to the interfaces and tag sites, and searching is also very simple. Under a single platform to manage all our Virtualization infra. it offers a tremendous amount of detail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohanad M.
MM
IT Specialist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

One of the best features of this is that it is easy and simple to monitor the network, and I think it is better than PRTG because it is compatible with everything and predicts problems before they occur. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

High cost and difficulty in configuring the settings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Monitors the network and its infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

Keeps IT abreast of the status of critical apps and services. We display the status on a TV screen in the IT bay. Convenient for everyone to view. Also sends alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

Not always clear as to what specifically is down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps us know when services are down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

alaa e.
AE
infrastructure Systems Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

The best program for monitoring networks and infrastructure. It is very easy to integrate, but there is difficulty in configuring the settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

difficulty in configuring the settings AND PRICE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

There was a problem while configuring the settings, but I called support and they helped me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PM
Tech Lead
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

More flexibility and ease to implement ,good customer support ,integrations, more features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

solarwinds hybrid cloud observability all good , no dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

most coverd all the Infrastructure monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azmat B.
AB
Customer Solutions Director
Consulting
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Observability?

Great tool with insights and technical aspects of the tool. Easy to use and manage internally within our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Observability?

Nothing that comes to mind. It is a great tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

It avoids our downtime and we can easily review the log file and see what the errors are and troubleshoot them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.