WhatsUp Gold

Avantages

my experience has been great it's very powerfull for network monitoring

Inconvénients

it's a little bit expensive and there is no free premium version

Avantages

you can monitor just about anything with this software. that's the whole point of monitoring. if you can't monitor everything you want, you need to find a different product.

Inconvénients

feature wise, i have no problems with the software. however, it is a little pricey. it's not anywhere near as expensive as some other monitoring suites, but it is still a little pricey for a small business.

Avantages

I like the amount of monitoring this platform can do. Pretty much if the item is somehow connected to the network, it can be monitored by this platform. Whatsupgold has been good in terms of letting us know proactively when a key system is down and for monitoring the bandwidth at our network sites. It's been a very solid platform when doing some basic things

Inconvénients

The interface is very unintuitive. It feels like you need to take a course on the platform in order to use it successfully. There are alot of options within the platform, but getting them all to work in a clear/clean fashion takes alot of work. Sometimes it feels like you need adjust to the limitations of the platform rather then the platform conforming to you. It doesn't feel as modern as it once did.

Avantages

Easy to set up, good support, good add-ons

Inconvénients

not intuitive menus - setting up notifications takes some practice - many good features are hidden

Avantages

I like how reliable it is. Once you've got it set up, it just keeps on chugging no matter how many fires are happening around it. It integrates well with PagerDuty and covers the bulk of our monitoring needs.

Inconvénients

I don't like the licensing model. We have multiple sites and we have to set up fully licensed instances at those remote sites for monitoring of those resources. Additionally, we don't have a way to combine all of those remote sites into a single pane of glass with our main site so that we can get a holistic view of our enviornment.

Avantages

What's Up Gold give us the ability to tailor it to how much view we want. As well as even starting software for us if/when it crashed on a particular machine. Outside of the standard up/down view it provides it also provides very customizable view/access to our network.

Inconvénients

Can get a bit expensive to cover on how the licensing is done but other than that it works great.

Avantages

It is completely customizable. Even the landing page can be customized to display your environment in the way that you want to see it. Alerts can be taken from the library and/or customized for your needs. A graphic display of your environment with color-coded conditions is useful for a quick visual look at your environment, and I have it running on one of my system monitors all the time. Email alerts, text messages - all customizable.

Inconvénients

Like any large-scale program, it can be difficult to learn and I recommend attending training to get the most out of the product, which is an additional cost. And the product isn't cheap to begin with. Just looking at the initial screens can be very intimidating.

Avantages

WhatsUp Gold is good looking and attractive. The name Gold is catchy and intuitive with seem less team management and control.

Inconvénients

I am not sure of its security features as regards the end to end encryption of messages and communication. An administrator should be able to back up the daily or weekly activities of his team for review but such feature is missing!!!

Avantages

I have been using what up gold for over ten years so i can tell you this is a sure value. It give you a global View of your data center health with a simple Dashboard, and you can custumize it easily. No agent is needed if you use snmp.

Inconvénients

Some new futures doesn t work perfectly and need some improvment. It is a little bit backward if you look to other new génération of products like datadog.

Avantages

WhatsUp Gold is a very good software to help us monitor all network components. It can receive SNMP traps as well. The GUI looks attractive.

Inconvénients

The price is high. Sometimes it is not easy to find the required features. And the setup is not so easy.

Avantages

This product is easy to set up and has minimum specs - we monitor nearly a thousand systems and sites using just one WUG server.
This product doesn't have bolt-on applications that makes it hard to manage and upgrade down the road.
This product has a lot of value for the money.

Inconvénients

No API interface available for automation of monitoring.
No complex alert logic or recovery notification options available.
Minimum features (plays into some of the Pros, however).

Avantages

Ease of setup and management. The capabilities to monitor all different kinds of systems in one place makes this software invaluable. Perfect fit for our critical monitoring needs.

Inconvénients

Can't say I have any issues with WhatsUp Gold. It runs 24/7 keeping us safe.

Avantages

The Smooth and instinctive UI

Utilizations an agentless model that covers most broadly utilized administration conventions

Many out of the container ready sorts

Inconvénients

Restricted to Windows Environment. Other OS should be considered

Avantages

The interface is nice and customizable. Upgrading to new versions are very simple. The overall alert monitoring is great. They continue to add in new features to keep up with the overall demanding IT infrastructure. Working with their technical and product teams are great as they listen to your issues and/or suggestions and look to add new features by communicating to their customers on their sprints.

Inconvénients

As of late the Whats Up Gold Plus product is not delivering based on what has been communicated to their customers. I attended a conference where IPSwitch stated their WhatsUp Gold product supported Microsoft Azure, Dell Compellent Storage and Wireless APs. When we implemented the product it only supports a small piece of Azure that requires Servers and not WebApps/Sites. In addition, the Dell Compellent provides incorrect measurements which is now being looked at on their technical team because there are issues with their release. On the AP Support it is stating they cannot read into our Cisco Airnet APs which are very standard. This too is a feature request. I like the product but for the cost I would expect these types of features to work.

Avantages

The Dashboard and ease of setting up new devices and alerting.

Inconvénients

Took a bit to learn the interface and how to set up active monitors.

Avantages

SNMP and WMI monitoring alerts for monitored devices and services are reliable and easy to configure. Alert Center keeps us up to date on device status. Logs are collected and able to be accessed from one location. The software provides a variety of ways to group devices, and a lot of customizability for various monitors and alerts.

Inconvénients

The mobile app was a nice addition to the platform, however is very basic and could use a lot of improvements to turn it into a useful monitoring and administration tool.

Avantages

I like the ability to get emails with statuses for devices across the organization on both the network and server side of the house

Inconvénients

Feels a bit difficult to use at time with how to set things up.

Avantages

I use many features on a continuous basis. It allows me to be proactive when I see potential issues. In this current world it is essential. I quickly get alerted when things go down and when other things hit thresholds. This has been an awesome addition to my arsenal and saved me on more than one occassion.

Inconvénients

I really do not have any complaints. This offers me exactly what I need and doesn't over complicate things. There are minor hiccups but nothing worth mentioning in this survey.

Avantages

Simple visualization of network element status (stop light approach) and alerts. Application reporting and monitoring. Network discovery, performance monitor and traffic monitoring

Inconvénients

Better involvement in the support communities

Avantages

Realtime monitoring, alerts if any of the devices or services goes down.

Inconvénients

The tutorial seems a bit complex. The setup takes longer than I thought.

Avantages

The thing I liked the most about this application is to facilitate communication with relatives and friends and to bring distances closer. From my point of view, this is the best application for communication and saving time.

Inconvénients

Praise be to God, we do not face any problems with this application, and I suggest increasing the knowledge of those who visited your page

Avantages

I had used other monitoring software before but none were as easy to use and reliable as WhatsUp Gold. The visual representation of your system is the most valuable because it makes everything so much easier to explain over the phone to people. You can have custom settings, alarms, triggers, etc that can all notify the right people. It makes it so much easier to keep things going and have the proper users/admins involved. The way it keeps everything organized is very useful and saves a lot of time with guess-work.

Inconvénients

WhatsUp can be a little on the sensitive side, which I supposed can be a plus for some important machines - but annoying for others. I've had a few times where there were false triggers or errors that weren't a big deal. But from the customer point of view, I'd view this as a gain. It's always good to be ultra aware of whats happening on your network, especially if it's your job!

Avantages

Configuration Management, Monitoring and the Dashboards.

Inconvénients

The reporting is lacking as I feel like it hasn't been updated in some time. The manner in which reports are sent via email can be sloppy at times and the actual reporting options are limited.

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Avantages

Flexible network mapping capability, ease of use.

Inconvénients

Needs more licensing tiers, paying for a 300 device license when we are barely over 100 is ridiculous

Avantages

I like the GUI and ability to navigate easily from page to page.

Inconvénients

The configuration and scanning features need improvement. There are short comings that make it challenging for a larger organization with 50+ subnets. You can setup 1 daily scan, support says you have to setup 1 scan per subnet and they cant run concurrently, with only 25 hours in a day, how do you scan each subnet on a daily basis? You cant.