SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

Score8 out of 10

14 Reviews and Ratings

What is SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)?

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitoring (WPM) is a website and SaaS application performance monitoring tool. It utilizes synthetic and real user monitoring for proactive issue detection and performance reporting. WPM is designed to be scalable with business needs.

Categories & Use Cases

System Monitoring

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Remote monitoring
Monitoring of network operational activities through the use of remote devices known as monitors or probes
Category average: 7.4
Multiple Server Monitoring
Server Monitoring is a process to monitor server's system resources like CPU Usage, Memory Consumption, I/O etc.
Category average: 8.4
Automated alerts and notifications
System generates alerts and notifications to provide timely intervention if required
Category average: 7.5

Customizable reporting
Administrators can use reporting engine to build custom reports
Category average: 7.6
Data visualization
Ability to produce visualizations to simplify understanding of data
Category average: 8.2
Administrator access control
Management and restriction of user access to specific system assets
Category average: 8.1

Scott Reese View profile

Server and Storage Administrator-2 in Information Technology at Michigan Supreme Court (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

Very detailed step performance monitoring.
Easy-to-use graphs and charts.

Cons

The recorder is clunky and must be run on a local machine.
It does not support frames.

Return on Investment

We can be proactive in addressing down sites or slow links. Not easily measured with ROI but keeps our users happy.
We can use historical access and performance data to justify (or not) using on-premise vs cloud services.

Alternatives Considered

Nagios

John Predmore View profile

Network Administrator in Information Technology at First Bankers Trust Company, NA (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

Since WPM builds on Orion its alerting capabilities are very good. We've always been able to generate alerts parameters to meet user needs.
WPM's web app monitoring capabilities were exactly what we needed. We've been able to write detailed transactions to monitor very specific app functions.

Cons

Occasionally we run into issues with sites that use cookies. We'd like to see improvement in handling these.
We sometimes struggle with sites that open new browser tabs.

Return on Investment

WPM alerting has permitted us to get faster alerts of issues with critical web apps such as online banking. Faster alerting means we can resolve issues sooner and increase uptime.

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, Lansweeper

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

Testing web applications
Ability to log in to secure sections of websites in order to test user authentication
Provides a detailed history of steps taken and provides print screens of each step. If an error occurs you can see the web page to better diagnose issues.

Cons

The creation of tests can take some time as you are recording actions taken on web sites.
Ability to edit already created tests typically results in deleting steps and recreating
Require to create multiple iterations of similar tests in order to test individual app servers behind a load balancer

Return on Investment

Better reporting of down states to allow for SLA reporting
Better alerting during certain failure conditions which allows the IT org to respond faster
More thorough history to review past errors and see screenshots of the errors.

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What is SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)?

Categories & Use Cases

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