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."The dashboards are great for gathering analytic information and seeing where the problems are."
"It is the best monitoring tool for Oracle databases."
"The product gives us as much control as we can have by providing a complete picture of the whole set of Oracle products."
"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."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager has eased the responsibilities among our DBAs. We can now assign individual tasks to separate DBAs."
"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a tool to monitor Oracle products."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Enterprise Manager are the data guide and online monitoring."
"I have found the singular GUI feature very helpful. Fewer DBA resources can be allocated with Toad licenses."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value."
"The initial setup was relatively easy, and we didn't have to install anything. All we had to do was put on the devices we wanted to monitor."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its powerful monitoring capabilities."
"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."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"I feel more dashboards can be added, especially those useful to higher levels of IT management."
"The solution is not as simple as people say it is."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve the monitoring types and the graphics."
"The solution's agents work with Java, and the Java code sometimes consumes a lot of memory on the CPU."
"The product is pretty comprehensive, but quite resource hungry. This might be due to the majority of the application seemingly being written in Java."
"There are limited numbers of other OEM devices that can be integrated into enterprise management that can be scaled by Oracle by adding other OEM devices to enterprise management."
"RMAN tools need improvement."
"There's a lot of documentation to go through as a new user."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"The product needs to reduce its price."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
"The tool's AppStack needs to improve in the storage monitoring part. It should also include an analytics and recommendation approach. If I have found a fault in a server or application, I would like to know what caused it and how do I recover from it."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
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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, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, 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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