We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."SQL Tuning Advisor, ADDM, Top Activity, ASM Space Manager, Incident Notifications"
"I have found the uptime of all of our systems to be most valuable with this solution. This is important because we need to guarantee specific uptime and preventive maintenance. We need to know upfront if there are going to be any issues on the database so we can proactively solve those."
"It is a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for managing database consolidation, something that has been missing and difficult to do."
"We use it extensively for performance tuning testing, monitoring, and configuration."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Enterprise Manager are the data guide and online monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring because it's very useful for checking and troubleshooting compared with other products, like Nagios for example, that have some interaction with Oracle."
"The single-pane and single interface in the centralized system is the most valuable feature."
"The job subsystem, monitoring subsystem, alerting, grouping of targets, and reporting features are valuable to us."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"Solarwinds has an open database that allows you to do serious integrations. It doesn't matter which service desk you have, you can implement and integrate it with SolarWinds."
"SolarWinds is a very stable platform compared to others on the market."
"We use the solution as a central monitoring tool. We use it to monitor every transaction that has a relation to the organization’s infrastructure."
"The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value."
"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its powerful monitoring capabilities."
"The product is pretty comprehensive, but quite resource hungry. This might be due to the majority of the application seemingly being written in Java."
"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager six out of 10 for affordability. It's expensive."
"I feel more dashboards can be added, especially those useful to higher levels of IT management."
"It is complicated to run it on Google Chrome."
"The fact that Oracle Enterprise Manager is an expensive solution is a matter of concern and needs to be considered for improvement."
"The user interface is not very interactive. It needs improvement."
"The solution is considered expensive."
"It needs to support the Database versions lower than 10.2."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"The current script monitoring feature has limitations, especially when dealing with custom scripts."
"SAM's software-defined network monitoring capability is also low and could be improved."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
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Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 4th in Server Monitoring with 123 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 10th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Quest Spotlight, AppDynamics and Quest Foglight for Databases, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI. See our Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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