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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ManageEngine Site24x7

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/ASite24x7 from ManageEngine is a full-stack application, website, server, cloud and network monitoring tool. Site24x7 offers code-level diagnostics and customizable error thresholds, end-to-end monitoring with topology visualization tools, and mobile accessibility.

    $9

    10 monitors

    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.N/A
    Pricing
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $9.00
    10 monitors
    Pro
    $35.00
    40 Monitors
    Classic
    $89.00
    100 Monitors
    Elite
    $225.00
    250 Monitors
    Enterprise
    $449.00
    500 Monitors
    Enterprise Plus Web
    $899.00
    2500 Monitors
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$1 monitorsNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsEach Pack will also support additional benefits such as Network interfaces, Applogs, Alert credits etc. You can also, purchase add-ons to create custom pricing options. Please visit the vendor's pricing page, for more information.SAM pricing starts at $2,995.
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    Community Pulse
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Considered Both Products
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answer on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    We choose SAM instead of Site 24x7 because of the facility to handle API calls. Site 24x7 doesn't have a friendly dashboard as SAM has.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    SolarWinds has incorporated all of the needs pieces in one platform....the others did not.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    33 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    Features
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of ManageEngine Site24x7 and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Feature
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    8.4
    11 Ratings
    8% above category average
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring8.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of ManageEngine Site24x7 and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Feature
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    7.4
    9 Ratings
    0% above category average
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    -
    Ratings
    Policy-based automation7.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of ManageEngine Site24x7 and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Feature
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    11% above category average
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    -
    Ratings
    Performance data reports8.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of ManageEngine Site24x7 and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Feature
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    6.6
    2 Ratings
    5% above category average
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    -
    Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of ManageEngine Site24x7 and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Feature
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    8.6
    276 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings8.9266 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.4230 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.9271 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings8.2215 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.2239 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.7148 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings7.8256 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.5216 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings8.8234 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings9.8269 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings9.1250 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings9.0199 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (13 ratings)
    8.8
    (278 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    [Site24x7 All-in-One Monitoring is] well suited in website monitoring where especially for uptime and availability of the website. Due to its cloud nature, the company has servers distributed globally that allow to check site availability from anywhere in the world.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    For monitoring applications that run on Windows hosts on VMware or HyperV virtualization, SolarWindows offers a nice, vertical view of both the loads and the resources. In such an environment, this makes life really good! But if you have something else -- for example, Linux hosts -- you're on your own to some extent. That is, the things it does well, it does very well -- but everything else is much less polished.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Very clean website UI. Tests are well categorized and navigation is very simple.
    • The accompanying mobile app is very useful when on the go as it can also notify you of any issues.
    • The cost of the platform is very cheap and the cost also scales at a low amount.
    • No on-premise footprint. All cloud-based.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • Monitor Azure Cloud Severs- We use SolarWinds SAM to monitor Active Directory and DNS on Several DCs published on Azure Cloud.
    • Monitor Hyper V and VMware - SolarWinds SAM monitors applications on both Hyper V and VMware, while also monitoring the physical host machines.
    • It also helps us monitor Warranty expiration for physical servers.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Ability to edit an existing maintenance schedule, vs creating a new one each time
    • Grouping of emails to SMS and non SMS alerts to save on false alerts
    • Setup of Realtime user monitor was not as functional as expected with regard to adding 3rd party scripts.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • Provides basic monitoring/visibility. Visibility into detailed/fine-grained issues best suited for more specialized/expensive solutions.
    • Licensing per monitored application rapidly uses up purchased license count.
    • More out-of-the-box templates or easier setup of monitoring less-common applications would make the solution more appealing given the target audience of the product.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    We are heavily invested in Solarwinds products for a reason. They are generally easy to setup and run with, requiring only some interfacing with support or help articles on rare occasions. They do what we bought them to do and we can't ask for more.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is quite easy to use and super versatile. It allows you to do just about anything you can through premade templates or through scripting. You can use an agent on the servers if you want to, or you can monitor through WMI or SNMP credentials. You can customize thresholds for alerting quickly, and you can configure alerts to be as complex or as simple as you want.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    The tool works and monitors items 24x7, it only requires maintenance a little more frequently due to security fixes in the Windows operating system.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    The graphical interface and the performance of the database leave a little to be desired, they could be better explored.Some functionality and screens do not work well depending on the browser used. The integrations never had any problems or caused crashes in other systems.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    I have only had to use support once, so I can't go into much detail about their support team. The one time I did use it the response was fast but the resolution took some time.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    I think there was only a couple times I had to open a support case for SAM and one time they got multiple engineers on the phone to get a better idea what I was trying to monitor and was able to point me in the best direction to monitor that system.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The biggest difference between Site24x7 and products like PRTG, Nagios, or Icinga, is that Site24x7 is hosted off the network, completely externally. The others do a great job on network alerts-- and some can even be configured to send SMS or phone calls with the right equipment and plugins-- but they usually reside in the network or at least on-site. Hosting them in the cloud might be a way around that, in which case they would be pretty similar to Site24x7 in capability, but without the additional software costs in the case of Nagios and Icinga (both open source).
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    It has been a while since we first purchased SolarWinds, but I looked over several other products that I can't remember now. Many other products tried to scan the network to find computers but given that our computers are located in various places across campus with other computers in our buildings that are not ours that type of network scanning was not what we needed. Other services have extra services that we had no need of and I liked the ability to add custom fields in SolarWinds so we can track the information on each computer that we need to know.
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    Scalability
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    It is hard to find the recommended SQL setup and convince others that is the way you should configure the server when you set it up
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    Return on Investment
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Cost savings have been substantial at approximately 70%.
    • We do suffer delayed email notifications and regular locational failures from 24x7. However, this is easily overcome by extra locational checks.
    • Much quicker responses from out of hours teams with the benefit of the mobile app, which is user-friendly.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • Less time spent investigating causes of issues. We are alerted straight away and can find the root cause of the issue in less time.
    • We have been able to ditch all our previous individual monitoring solutions, none of which integrated with each other for a single solution which fully integrates with each of the different modules to provide a single portal for monitoring and alerting.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    ManageEngine Site24x7 Screenshots

    Screenshot of Component wise metric breakdown in a Webpage Speed (Browser) monitorScreenshot of Summary page for a windows server monitorScreenshot of Response time and outages summary for a DNS server monitorScreenshot of Summary page for traces run on a Java applicationScreenshot of Desktop and mobile view of a Website monitorScreenshot of Homepage view

    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Screenshots

    Screenshot of Multi-vendor application performance monitoringScreenshot of Multi-vendor server monitoringScreenshot of Application dependency mapping with AppStack™ dashboardScreenshot of Microsoft Exchange performance monitoring with AppInsight™ templateScreenshot of Microsoft IIS performance monitoring with AppInsight™ templateScreenshot of Server hardware health monitoring