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    SolarWinds AppOptics

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.N/A
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    SolarWinds AppOptics
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    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    SolarWinds AppOptics
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    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    AppOptics was about 60% cheaper with most of the functionalities that we needed. Datadog had some advanced features which were not important to us, and hence we decided to go with AppOptics.
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    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    Everyone used to know the names of AppDynamics and Dynatrace when it comes to APM or Application Tracing Monitoring. Since these tools were the evolver of this particular technology, I still believe that these tools are the market player. But SolarWinds AppOptics is not less, …
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    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    We've been using Traceview and now SolarWinds AppOptics since I joined HubSpot.
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    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    As an early-stage startup, we evaluated the different options on the following parameters: Functionality Monitoring overhead Cost Easy-to-use dashboard AppOptics had most of the features that we needed and offered their services at a reasonable price that made sense for …
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    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    What we found positive in AppOptics from others is:
    • Easy to install and manage.
    • Various stack support.
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    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    AppOptics is way more user friendly than Kibana. When you first log in to AppOptics, you have the information you need very easily while Kibana takes a lot of learning before getting your first results. Kibana almosts requires the help of developers and technicians to learn how …
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    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    It was a decision made based on our requirements. We felt like AppOptics gave us what we need precisely. When we tried it out, we were satisfied with the performance. It didn't compare to the rest in the market.
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    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    We felt the competitors were both more expensive and more difficult to configure and deploy. We selected SolarWinds AppOptics because it provided better value both in terms of cost and user experience.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    I have not used other products but in my organization, one team is using Datadog for monitoring.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    SolarWinds AppOptics serves a specific use case for us--diving down on the application layer to identify root causes of latency. It does not offer the same use case as SignalFx, which offers metrics for the overall service and integration for custom metrics. AppOptics also does …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    The alerting capability was far better.
    Transaction tracking was implemented beautifully in SolarWinds AppOptics.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    Although AppOptics is very similar to New Relic feature-wise, we choose to use it for its ease of setting up services and intuitive UI.
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    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    We analyzed a number of alternatives to AppOptics, but none combined strong performance in all of our key areas - we needed a solution which could be deployed on premise, supported multi tenant hosts, provided the ability to analyse individual requests, presented intuitive …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    Pricing, faster, availability, easy debugging, easy to use/understand.
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    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    AppOptics provides us visibility of the overall system. Slack helps us to keep the communication better among our collegues. Sentry One is also being used to dive deeper into SQL queries performance tuning. SolarWinds AppOptics clearly displays the flow of information in …
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    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    We went from a recommendation. We looked at no others
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    I have previously used New Relic APM, New Relic Synthetics, New Relic Browser, New Relic Server, New Relic Insights, and Dynatrace.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    AppDynamics was a product that we evaluated along with AppOptics. A lot of our decision came down to price.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of SolarWinds AppOptics
    Feature
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    6.9
    30 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Application monitoring8.530 Ratings
    Database monitoring7.528 Ratings
    Threshold alerts6.526 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities4.612 Ratings
    Application performance management console7.226 Ratings
    Collaboration tools6.014 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.220 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding6.618 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring7.313 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring8.123 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting7.316 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery7.29 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Splunk AppDynamics
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Score6.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SolarWinds
    AppOptics is good for small to medium-sized organizations with less than 150 servers or less than 40 services to monitor. It performs well for this use case where people need to get an overview of application performance, and 95%ile data is okay. Somewhere every data point and every record is critical; it should be avoided.
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    Pros
    SolarWinds
    • Request tracing with code profiling.
    • Automated alerting on latency and response codes for each API.
    • Low resource overhead while collecting data from our application servers.
    • Highly performant dashboard that enables us to make progress rapidly.
    • Very resilient. We have not seen a downtime in their service in the entire year that we have used them.
    • Identify database and cache requests that are taking longer than expected
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    Cons
    SolarWinds
    • The only thing that I would add is the possibility to display every single query our servers receive to eventually analyze them and query through them. We could also generate nice visualizations from that. Right now I believe we can only see averages.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SolarWinds
    We have been using AppOptics for over 3.5 years and expect to continue to renew it for the foreseeable future
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    Usability
    SolarWinds
    As far a usability is concerned for AppOptics, it is just as matter of few minutes away even if you start from scratch, as all you need to do is register on the site and you will get the URL and password. And after this all you have to do is follow the instruction, as per the configuration wizard (tool tip) within the console for various technology such as SQL, IIS, .NET
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    Support Rating
    SolarWinds
    Solarwinds AppOptics is rated as 9 out of 10 and the reason is there are still few areas where AppOptics needs to improve such as Service Now Integration, GCP Cloud Support, Better Dashboard visualization for application transactions flow. Other than these feature everything is there in AppOptics and that's a reason given 9 points out of 10.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SolarWinds
    What we found positive in AppOptics from others is:
    • Easy to install and manage.
    • Various stack support.
    • Point to point deep-dive metrics and correlation.
    • Metrics like DB connection, query analysis, latency in API calls, and other connections, response codes for various APIs, etc are the key ones in our case, which AppOptics provides efficiently.
    • Alerts can be sent on different channels.
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    Return on Investment
    SolarWinds
    • Application monitoring troubleshooting became more accurate. Accurate results save more man-hours of manual troubleshooting.
    • As Realtime monitoring and alerts provide more flexibility, downtime can be minimized and Accurate Root causes can be provided.
    • Dashboards can be useful for making future strategy based on trends.
    • Installation and integration is easy.
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