#1 most frequent
United States of America
63.0%17 installations of 27
What is SolarWinds AppOptics?
SolarWinds 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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Application monitoring
Application monitoring involves tracking response times and resource usage for applications, including highly-distributed applications
Category average: 8.6
Server availability and performance monitoring
Ability to monitor server availability
Category average: 9.4
Database monitoring
Database monitoring means looking for database bottlenecks liable to slow response times
Category average: 8.2
Areas for Improvement
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
Built-in templates for specific applications
Category average: 7.5
Collaboration tools
Collaboration tools enable DevOps staff to collaborate by adding notes/comments and also integrating with external collaboration tools like ticketing systems
Category average: 7.5
Predictive capabilities
Data mining of log and other performance data to understand predictors of slowdowns or outages
Category average: 7.6
Who Buys & Uses SolarWinds AppOptics
#2 most frequent
Brazil
7.4%2 installations of 27
#3 most frequent
Cayman Islands
7.4%2 installations of 27
Master Player just Born
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SolarWinds AppOptics is being analysed to be used as a potential Cloud Services Monitoring tool - and on a side note, also being analysed on how effectively AppOptics can be leveraged to to APM things such as Appdynamics and Dynatrace does. So we are proposing SolarWinds AppOptics to our client as the new technology monitoring tool for cloud infra, primarily.
Pros
- Cloud Service Monitoring
- New Technologies Monitoring such as Containers Docker
- APM
Cons
- GCP is not Supported
- Oracle is not Supported
- No Integration available with Service Now
Return on Investment
- Cloud Services Monitoring
- Microservices Monitoring
- Application Tracing
Alternatives Considered
AppDynamics and Dynatrace
Usability
Its good and easy to use
Pros
- Best GUI.
- Detailed view of latencies.
- Application integration is easy.
Return on Investment
- Positive
Detect bottlenecks in your application
Pros
- Average response time.
- Average request rate.
- Tracing different layers in a request.
- Detection of slow queries.
Cons
- More data can be added, however, it could also be that we haven't set it up fully.
Return on Investment
- Faster page response times.
- Optimization of database queries.
- Removal of all unnecessary cache calls.
Other Software Used
Elasticsearch, SonarQube, Atlassian Confluence
Good value for cloud infrastructure monitoring!
Pros
- Simple installation and configuration
- Easy to use UI
- Good value
- Many integrations with third-party software
Cons
- Better cluster support: identify and group all related hosts automatically based on name
Return on Investment
- Saves time by simplifying troubleshooting
- Avoids downtime through monitoring and alerting
Alternatives Considered
New Relic and Datadog
Other Software Used
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
Works okay for Python but needs work
Pros
- Distributed tracing.
- Basic hardware monitoring.
- Application transaction stats/details.
Cons
- Support for celery in Python.
- Overall better Python support.
- Backwards compatibility.
Return on Investment
- Faster troubleshooting when it works.
- Additional labor to keep up with documentation and backward compatibility breakages (in Python).
- Grafana has been implemented to deal with the shortcomings of AppOptic's statistical abilities.
