Audience
Companies that want continuous visibility into containers, hosts, and serverless environments
About SolarWinds AppOptics
SolarWinds® AppOptics™ is a simple, powerful, and affordable SaaS-based infrastructure & application monitoring tool for custom on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems.
By enabling quick identification of performance problems across the stack from the application, to underlying infrastructure, down to the line of code, AppOptics helps reduce MTTR. AppOptics was thoughtfully designed for simple setup and use by all IT professionals with powerful features to quickly and automatically pinpoint performance issues removing the guesswork from troubleshooting.
AppOptics enables you to align infrastructure and application performance objectives side by side with business objectives.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$9.99/host/month*
Pricing Details:
*billed annually, monthly billing available.
Full Stack APM: $24.99/host/month**
**billed annually, monthly billing available.
Full Stack APM: $24.99/host/month**
**billed annually, monthly billing available.
Free Trial:
Free Trial available.
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Company Information
SolarWinds
Founded: 1999
United States
www.solarwinds.com/appoptics
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SolarWinds AppOptics Product Features
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Diagnostic Tools
Full Transaction Diagnostics
Performance Control
Resource Management
Root-Cause Diagnosis
Server Performance
Trace Individual Transactions
Baseline Manager
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
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
