We have no shareholders to appease. This lets us prioritize user experience, feature enhancements, and product innovations over profits. Our solutions have consistent and flexible pricing plans without frequent price hikes. In fact, our last price change was in 2017.
You can choose the plan that works for you, perpetual or subscription. Solarwinds often prioritizes subscription plans for their observability solution with multi-year lock-in periods. With OpManager, you can monitor what you want, for as long as you want to.
ManageEngine is compliant with top level privacy and security standards like ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR, and SOC 2 Type II. Along with this, OpManager and its add-ons helps you stay compliant with standards like FIPS 140-2, HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, etc with security-oriented features.
OpManager is a cost-effective alternative to Solarwinds NPM, costing 43% less while offering a lot more features and functionalities. OpManager Plus, an alternative to Solarwinds Observability costs 80% lesser while offering the same set of observability features. OpManager doesn't force you to choose subscription plans with multi-year lock-in periods, you can choose subscription or perpetual. Let's compare Solarwinds and OpManager.
| Features |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Pricing billed annually | $1,145 total of 100 devices | $2,042 total of 100 devices |
| Plans | Professional | NPM |
| Network performance monitoring | ||
| Server performance monitoring | ||
| Virtualization monitoring | * | |
| Storage monitoring | * | |
| Wireless monitoring | * | |
| Perpetual licensing | ||
| Premium support | ** |
| Features |  |
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| Pricing billed annually | $2,645 total of 100 devices | $14,400 total of 100 devices |
| Plans | OpManager Plus | Observability |
| Network performance monitoring | ||
| IT infrastructure monitoring | ||
| Application & database monitoring | ||
| Digital experience monitoring | ||
| Traffic & bandwidth monitoring | ||
| Network config management | ||
| IP address management | ||
| Firewall log optimization | ||
| Perpetual licensing | ||
| Premium support |
OpManager's adaptive thresholds calculates, sets, and updates multi- level alarm thresholds for all performance monitors every hour. This ensures that you only get alerted for real-anomalies, cutting down false positives, and fine-tuning your monitoring.
Track the critical resources like CPU, memory, and disk space with ML-powered predictive forecasts. Calculate the number of days left till resource exhaustion and perform informed capacity planning.
With OpManager's NetFlow analyzer add-on, you can monitor incoming and outgoing interface traffic and flag abnormal traffic spikes or dips across extended periods.
OpManager has a script-less drag-and-drop worklfow automation features with 70+ actions to help you execute complex outcome-based IT remediation workflows, troubleshooting steps, and network management tasks with ease.
OpManager's out-of-the-box Ansible integration can help you execute playbooks in response to alarms to automate fault resolutions and to minimize SLA violations.
Discover your IT systems, classify them, group them, and get a curated list of performance metrics automatically. Leverage rule based-engines to automate post-discovery actions like assigning monitors, setting notification profiles, or adding to a map, etc.
Track critical devices, services, and websites across your network sites and ISP links with network path profiles. Narrow down the exact hop that's causing congestion with packet loss and response time monitoring.
OpManager's organization maps link network and infrastructure monitoring with application and digital experience monitoring by visualizing layer 2 networks, server infrastructure, virtual environments, databases, and application dependencies. This helps you narrow down application-level issues down to server or interface level.
Enable add-ons and plugins to monitor traffic, applications, websites, containers, and cloud-environments with a unified console. You can also manage configurations, compliance, firmware vulnerabilities, IP subnets, firewall policies, and more.
OpManager's integration with ITSM tools like ServiceDesk Plus, ServiceNow, Freshservice, and Jira helps you expedite incident response by converting alarms into tickets, automating ticket assignment, prioritization, categorization, etc. You can also sync your monitoring console with helpdesk tools to automatically keep your CMDB updated.
OpManager supports integrations Ansible, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Grafana, ManageEngine AlarmsOne, ManageEngine Log360, and ManageEngine Analytics Plus by default. You can build cross-platforms to transport data effortlessly and to eliminate data silos.
You can use OpManager's custom integration builder feature to create integrations with any third party tool of your choice. OpManager uses REST API calls and webhook invocations to power robust integrations with third party tools.
If you are considering a Solarwinds alternative, our product experts and technical engineers can help you evaluate the editions, features, and add-ons that best suits your requirements. You can also get in-depth price quotes for perpetual or subscription plans and schedule free POC demos.
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Disclaimer:
* These features are not supported by Solarwinds NPM, however they may be available for other Solarwinds products: Licensed under the same platform with addtional license costs.
** Premium support is only provided for Solarwinds Observability self-hosted and cloud solutions.
This page highlights ManageEngine OpManager as an alternative to Solarwinds. This page is compiled from the information available on Solarwinds' website. We have made every attempt to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information provided. However, the information is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. ManageEngine is not liable for any inaccuracies in the page due to changes made on Solarwinds' website or any development made to Solarwinds' product subsequent to the date of publication of this page. Please refer Solarwinds' website for more information.
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