We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prometheus is the preferred choice over SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor due to its flexibility, integration capabilities, and affordability as an open-source solution. While SolarWinds has valuable monitoring capabilities, there is room for improvement in stability, ease of use, and pricing. Prometheus is highly valued for its fast data storage system, scraping mechanism, and ability to collect and compare logs from different resources.
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The application dependency feature identifies issues between applications and servers or within the network where the application is hosted. It highlights related problems, whether related to packet processing or other issues, enabling the creation of alerts and reports accordingly."
"It is simple to implement and can provide fairly decent Windows-based monitoring, beyond simple SNMP. It is great for monitoring newbies and smaller shops."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"The most valuable feature is application monitoring."
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
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Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Nagios XI and ServiceNow Discovery. See our Prometheus vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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