SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability Review
December 10, 2022
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Having all modules under one license makes
licensing renewals easier. We were running several instances of Orion, across multiple
sites and authorities, this made overall management of the platform complicated.
In addition, we required multiple additional web pollers.
Using the conventional licensing system meant budgets and POs needed to be
arranged when a new poller was required.
Observability licensing addresses these issues and gave a
lot more functionality, as observability has a complete suite of modules, for
example, unlimited APEs and web Pollers (node count permitting) NetFlow, device tracker,
Ipam…etc. The observability platform gives us a complete holistic view
of the network and devices,
With the use of additional polling engines is required, we
can use all the modules to help troubleshoot, for example,
If we had a device with a malicious event/log detected by our
security team, we can use device tracker to locate the device and shut the switch
port, we can also use NetFlow to identify what traffic an src and DST IP
addresses. Another example is how useful Ipam is, when static ranges
and DHCP are added to Ipam, this will detect scope usage and duplicate IP
addresses.
licensing renewals easier. We were running several instances of Orion, across multiple
sites and authorities, this made overall management of the platform complicated.
In addition, we required multiple additional web pollers.
Using the conventional licensing system meant budgets and POs needed to be
arranged when a new poller was required.
Observability licensing addresses these issues and gave a
lot more functionality, as observability has a complete suite of modules, for
example, unlimited APEs and web Pollers (node count permitting) NetFlow, device tracker,
Ipam…etc. The observability platform gives us a complete holistic view
of the network and devices,
With the use of additional polling engines is required, we
can use all the modules to help troubleshoot, for example,
If we had a device with a malicious event/log detected by our
security team, we can use device tracker to locate the device and shut the switch
port, we can also use NetFlow to identify what traffic an src and DST IP
addresses. Another example is how useful Ipam is, when static ranges
and DHCP are added to Ipam, this will detect scope usage and duplicate IP
addresses.
Pros
- unlimited APEs included
- all modules under one platform
- overall cost savings when compared to buying multiple APEs and modules, NetFlow NCM, Ipam, etc.
Cons
- Orion maps needs to be able to map to groups like atlas can by name
- web tool set integration, atm this needs to be removed from the server to install Observability
- Ipam
- APEs
- device Tracker
- NCM
- SAM
- one license requiring 1 PO to be raised
- sharing costs between departments for monitoring under one platform using APEs
Do you think SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability's feature set?
Yes
Did SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability again?
Yes
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