SolarWinds

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Paid

Open source

No

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

1998

Status

Active

Website

solarwinds.com

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Network monitoring checklist

10 of 10 confirmed in SolarWinds's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Network.

• + SNMP polling Yes
• + Flow analysis Yes
• + Device discovery Yes
• + Topology maps Yes
• + Latency and path Yes
• + Bandwidth graphs Yes
• + Syslog and traps Yes
• + Configuration backup Yes
• + Alerting Yes
• + Wireless Yes

Flow via NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, configs via Network Configuration Manager, syslog via Kiwi Syslog Server (separate products).

Checked against: solarwinds.com

Server and infrastructure monitoring checklist

10 of 10 confirmed in SolarWinds's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Infrastructure.

• + Host agent Yes
• + Agentless checks Yes
• + Windows hosts Yes
• + Auto-discovery Yes
• + Process and service checks Yes
• + Log collection Yes
• + Containers Yes
• + Alerting with notifications Yes
• + Dashboards Yes
• + Plugins or integrations Yes

Portfolio; server checks via Server & Application Monitor.

Checked against: solarwinds.com, solarwinds.com (2)

Database monitoring checklist

9 of 10 confirmed in SolarWinds's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Databases.

• + PostgreSQL Yes
• + MySQL or MariaDB Yes
• + SQL Server Yes
• ? MongoDB Not confirmed
• + Query statistics Yes
• + Explain plans Yes
• + Index advice Yes
• + Replication Yes
• + Locks and waits Yes
• + Alerting Yes

Suite-level: plan and Always On features come from SQL Sentry (SQL Server only); MongoDB not confirmed

Checked against: solarwinds.com, solarwinds.com (2), solarwinds.com (3), solarwinds.com (4)

Alternatives to SolarWinds

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