Datadog vs. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Comparison


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		Related Products Site24x7 ManageEngine Site24x7 is a comprehensive observability and monitoring solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their IT environments. It offers monitoring for back-end IT infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, in containers, and on virtual machines. It ensures a superior digital experience for end users by tracking application performance and providing synthetic and real user insights. It also analyzes network performance, traffic flow, and configuration changes, troubleshoots application and server performance issues through log analysis, offers custom plugins for the entire tech stack, and evaluates real user usage. Whether you're an MSP or a business aiming to elevate performance, Site24x7 provides enhanced visibility, optimization of hybrid workloads, and proactive monitoring to preemptively identify workflow issues using AI-powered insights. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more than 130 locations worldwide. 750 Ratings Visit Website AdRem NetCrunch NetCrunch is a powerful, scalable, all-in-one network monitoring system built for modern IT environments. It supports agentless monitoring of thousands of devices, covering SNMP, servers, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), traffic flows (NetFlow, sFlow), logs, and custom data via REST or scripts. With 670+ monitoring packs and dynamic views, it automates discovery, configuration, alerting, and automates self-healing actions for efficient remote remediation in response to alerts. Its node-based licensing eliminates sensor sprawl and complexity, providing a clear, cost-effective path to scale. Real-time dashboards, policy-driven setup, advanced alert tuning and 40+ alert actions including remote script execution, service restart, process kill or device reboot-make NetCrunch ideal for organizations replacing legacy tools like PRTG, SolarWinds, or WhatsUp Gold. Fast to deploy and future-proof. Can be installed on prem, self hosted in the cloud, or mixed. 147 Ratings Visit Website Paessler PRTG Paessler PRTG is an all-inclusive monitoring software solution developed by Paessler. Equipped with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface with a cutting-edge monitoring engine, PRTG optimizes connections and workloads as well as reduces operational costs by avoiding outages while saving time and controlling service level agreements (SLAs). The solution is packed with specialized monitoring features that include flexible alerting, cluster failover solution, distributed monitoring, in-depth reporting, maps and dashboards, and more. PRTG monitors your entire IT infrastructure. All important technologies are supported: • SNMP: ready-to-use and custom options • WMI and Windows Performance Counters • SSH: for Linux/Unix and macOS systems • Traffic analysis using flow protocols or packet sniffing • HTTP requests • REST APIs returning XML or JSON • Ping, SQL, and many more 741 Ratings Visit Website ManageEngine OpManager OpManager is a network management tool geared to monitor your entire network. Ensure all devices operate at peak health, performance, and availability. The extensive network monitoring capabilities lets you track performance of switches, routers, LANs, WLCs, IP addresses, and firewalls. Monitor the finer aspects of your network: Hardware monitoring enables CPU, memory, and disk monitoring, for efficient. performance of all devices. Perform seamless faults and alerts management with real-time notifications and detailed logs for quick issue detection and resolution. Achieve network automation, with workflows enabling automated diagnostics and troubleshooting actions. Advanced network visualization-including business views, topology maps, heat maps, and customizable dashboards give admins an at-a-glance view of network status. 250+ pre-built reports covering metrics like device performance, network usage, uptime, facilitate capacity planning and improved decision-making. 1,416 Ratings Visit Website groundcover Cloud-based observability solution that helps businesses track and manage workload and performance on a unified dashboard. Monitor everything you run in your cloud without compromising on cost, granularity, or scale. groundcover is a full stack cloud-native APM platform designed to make observability effortless so that you can focus on building world-class products. By leveraging our proprietary sensor, groundcover unlocks unprecedented granularity on all your applications, eliminating the need for costly code changes and development cycles to ensure monitoring continuity. 100% visibility, all the time. Cover your entire Kubernetes stack instantly, with no code changes using the superpowers of eBPF instrumentation. Take control of your data, all in-cloud. groundcover’s unique inCloud architecture keeps your data private, secured and under your control without ever leaving your cloud premises. 32 Ratings Visit Website Uptrends ITRS Uptrends helps organizations achieve 24x7 reliability and performance for web services (websites, SaaS, APIs), so mission-critical transactions work from anywhere, anytime. ITRS Uptrends’ intuitive no-code/low-code transaction recorder simplifies the monitoring setup, driving rapid time-to-value even across multi-vendor/domain business services. We continuously monitor multistep user journeys from 368 nodes in 67 countries to provide full visibility beyond uptime. Alongside synthetic monitoring, our real user monitoring captures service usage and adoption to show IT's business impact. Integrating with our real-time observability portfolio, ITRS Uptrends offers end-to-end visibility of business services across hybrid infrastructures. As a SaaS solution, ITRS Uptrends is deployment-free unless private checkpoints are required to monitor from within a corporate network. 125 Ratings Visit Website ActiveBatch Workload Automation ActiveBatch by Redwood makes setting up and launching automation easy with no custom scripting required. With a low-code Super REST API adapter, over 100 pre-built job steps and a user-friendly drag-and-drop workflow designer, you can integrate across any system, application and data source, on-prem, in the cloud or in hybrid environments. Maintain complete control and visibility and meet SLAs with monitoring of all automation from a single pane of glass and get custom alerts via emails or SMS. Managed Smart Queues dynamically scale resources for high-volume workloads, reducing process times while the self-service portal enables business users to run and monitor workflows independently. ActiveBatch meets security and compliance standards, with ISO 27001 and SOC 2, Type II certifications, encrypted connections and regular third-party tests, always keeping security at the forefront. Along with ongoing product advancements, get the added benefit of 24x7 support and on-site training. 349 Ratings Visit Website Auvik Auvik's cloud-based network monitroing and management software gives you instant insight into the networks you manage, and automates complex and time-consuming network tasks. You get complete network visibility and control. Real-time network mapping & inventory means you'll always know exactly whats where, even as your users move. Automated config backup & restore on network devices means you'll mitigate network risk with no manual effort. And deep network traffic insights is a game changer. Whether you are a corporate IT professional or a Managed Service Provider, Auvik has a simple, out of the box solution for you and your team that only take minutes to deploy. 659 Ratings Visit Website ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is an on-premise log management solution designed for businesses of all sizes across various industries such as information technology, health, retail, finance, education and more. The solution provides users with both agent based and agentless log collection, log parsing capabilities, a powerful log search engine and log archiving options. With network device auditing functionality, it enables users to monitor their end-user devices, firewalls, routers, switches and more in real time. The solution displays analyzed data in the form of graphs and intuitive reports. EventLog Analyzer's incident detection mechanisms such as event log correlation, threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK framework implementation, advanced threat analytics, and more, helps spot security threats as soon as they occur. The real-time alert system alerts users about suspicious activities, so they can prioritize high-risk security threats. 159 Ratings Visit Website NMIS FirstWave’s NMIS is a complete network management system that provides fault, performance, and configuration management, performance graphs, and threshold alerts. Business rules allow for highly granular notification policies with many types of notification methods. NMIS consolidates multiple tools into one system, ready for Network Engineers to use. Scalable, flexible, open, and simple to implement and maintain, NMIS is the Network Management System that underpins the operations of over one hundred thousand organizations worldwide – making it one of the most widely used open-source Network Management Systems in the world today. FirstWave enables partners, including some of the world’s largest telcos and managed service providers (MSPs), to protect their customers from cyber-attacks, while rapidly growing cybersecurity services revenues at scale. FirstWave provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for network discovery, management, and cybersecurity for its partners globally. 14 Ratings Visit Website
About Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.	About SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is designed to monitor your applications and their supporting infrastructure, whether running on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Don’t let slow applications and downtime impact your end users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack. Automatically discover your application’s environment and start monitoring, typically in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Information Technology, Operations, Security, and Development teams	Audience System admin, IT admin, IT generalist system engineer, SQL admin, Exchange admin, Windows admin
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Pricing $15.00/host/month Free Version Free Trial	Pricing No information available. Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.9 / 5 ease 4.9 / 5 features 4.7 / 5 design 4.7 / 5 support 4.7 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person	Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information Datadog Founded: 2010 United States www.datadoghq.com	Company Information SolarWinds Founded: 2000 United States www.solarwinds.com/server-application-monitor
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Categories AIOps API Marketplaces API Monitoring Application Dependency Mapping Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Cloud Cost Management Cloud Management Cloud Migration Cloud Monitoring Cloud Security Container Monitoring Cron Job Monitoring Data Center Management Database Monitoring Database Performance Tuning DevOps DNS Monitoring File Integrity Monitoring Incident Response Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) IoT Analytics IoT Device Management IT Alerting IT Infrastructure Monitoring Log Analysis Log Management Log Monitoring Network Bandwidth Monitoring Network Monitoring Network Security Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) Network Troubleshooting Observability Server Monitoring Session Replay SIEM SLA Management SNMP Monitoring System Monitoring Telemetry Website Monitoring	Categories Application Dependency Mapping Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Container Monitoring DNS Monitoring Hardware Monitoring IT Infrastructure Monitoring IT Management Server Management Server Monitoring System Monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features Baseline Manager Diagnostic Tools Full Transaction Diagnostics Performance Control Resource Management Root-Cause Diagnosis Server Performance Trace Individual Transactions IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Application Monitoring Bandwidth Monitoring Capacity Planning Configuration Change Management Data Movement Monitoring Health Monitoring Multi-Platform Support Performance Monitoring Point-in-Time Visibility Reporting / Analytics Virtual Machine Monitoring System Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Antivirus Management Data Backup / Recovery Device Monitoring Inventory Management Patch Management Policy-based Automation Remote Monitoring Reporting / Analytics Risk Analysis Server Monitoring Service Configuration Management Show More Features Cloud Security Features Antivirus Application Security Behavioral Analytics Encryption Endpoint Management Incident Management Intrusion Detection System Threat Intelligence Two-Factor Authentication Vulnerability Management Data Center Management Features Audit Trail Behavior-Based Acceleration Cross Reference System Device Auto Discovery Diagnostic Testing Import / Export Data JCL Management Multi-Platform Multi-User Power Management Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Database Monitoring Features Anomaly Detection Autodiscovery Capacity Planning Dashboard Dependency Tracking Historical Trend Analysis Multitenancy Notifications / Alerts Performance Monitoring Permissions / Access Controls Predictive Analytics Prioritization Query Analysis Resource Optimization Troubleshooting DevOps Features Approval Workflow Dashboard KPIs Policy Management Portfolio Management Prioritization Release Management Timeline Management Troubleshooting Reports Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Features Analytics / Reporting Configuration Management Data Migration Data Security Load Balancing Log Access Network Monitoring Performance Monitoring SLA Monitoring Log Management Features Archiving Audit Trails Compliance Reporting Consolidation Data Visualization Event Logs Network Logs Remediation Syslogs Thresholds Web Logs Network Monitoring Features Bandwidth Monitoring Baseline Manager Diagnostic Tools Internet Usage Monitoring IP Address Monitoring Real Time Analytics Resource Management Server Monitoring SLA Monitoring Uptime Monitoring Web Traffic Reporting Network Security Features Access Control Analytics / Reporting Compliance Reporting Firewalls Internet Usage Monitoring Intrusion Detection System Threat Response VPN Vulnerability Scanning Network Troubleshooting Features Alerts / Escalation Bandwidth Troubleshooting Change Management Configuration Management Connectivity Management Data Visualization Historical Audit Mobile Network Troubleshooting Network Analysis Network Monitoring SIEM Features Application Security Behavioral Analytics Compliance Reporting Endpoint Management File Integrity Monitoring Forensic Analysis Log Management Network Monitoring Real Time Monitoring Threat Intelligence User Activity Monitoring Website Monitoring Features Availability Testing Event Logs Event-Based Notifications FTP Monitoring Mail Server Monitoring Maintenance Scheduling Performance Metrics Real Time Monitoring Transaction Monitoring Uptime Reporting	Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features Baseline Manager Diagnostic Tools Full Transaction Diagnostics Performance Control Resource Management Root-Cause Diagnosis Server Performance Trace Individual Transactions IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Application Monitoring Bandwidth Monitoring Capacity Planning Configuration Change Management Data Movement Monitoring Health Monitoring Multi-Platform Support Performance Monitoring Point-in-Time Visibility Reporting / Analytics Virtual Machine Monitoring System Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Antivirus Management Data Backup / Recovery Device Monitoring Inventory Management Patch Management Policy-based Automation Remote Monitoring Reporting / Analytics Risk Analysis Server Monitoring Service Configuration Management Show More Features IT Management Features Capacity Monitoring Compliance Management Event Logs Hardware Inventory IT Budgeting License Management Patch Management Remote Access Scheduling Software Inventory User Activity Monitoring Server Management Features CPU Monitoring Credential Management Database Servers Email Monitoring Event Logs History Tracking Patch Management Scheduling User Activity Monitoring Virtual Machine Monitoring
Integrations Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure AuthPoint Deductive AI ExpressConnect F5 Distributed Cloud Platform Feroot HCL IntelliOps Event Management Honeybadger KaneAI Observo AI OpsLevel OverOps Railway Rippling Rollbar Speedscale StepSecurity Zuplo otto-js Show More Integrations View All 314 Integrations	Integrations Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure AuthPoint Deductive AI ExpressConnect F5 Distributed Cloud Platform Feroot HCL IntelliOps Event Management Honeybadger KaneAI Observo AI OpsLevel OverOps Railway Rippling Rollbar Speedscale StepSecurity Zuplo otto-js Show More Integrations View All 18 Integrations
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