# Searching for Solarwinds alternatives? Try OpManager

OpManager's reliability, flexible plans, affordable pricing, and feature-set makes it a perfect Solarwinds replacement

- Save up to 80% in costs
- No price-hikes since 2018
- Subscription & perpetual pricing plans
- 100% money-back guarantee*

## Choose a reliable alternative to Solarwinds

![Choose a reliable alternative to Solarwinds](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/choose-reliable.webp)

### Private, boot-strapped, and independent

![Private, boot-strapped, and independent](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/boot-strapped.svg)

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 2018**.

### No forceful push to subscription plans

![Focus on product development over acquisitions](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/product-development.svg)

OpManager offers **perpetual and subscription** pricing plans. You can choose what works best for you based on your requirements. Whereas Solarwinds forces subscription plans for their observability solution with multi-year lock-in periods for their users. In some cases, they charge 3X of the original license cost.

### Dedicated to privacy and security

![Dedicated to privacy and security](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/privacy-security.svg)

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.

## Monitor more, pay less, with OpManager

OpManager is a cost-effective alternative to Solarwinds NPM, costing **50% less while offering** a lot more features and functionalities. OpManager Nexus, 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.

### Network monitoring

| Features | ![OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/opmanager.svg) | ![Solarwinds](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/solarwinds.svg) |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing billed annually | $1,145 total of 100 devices | $2,829 total of 100 devices |
| Plans | Professional | NPM |
| Network performance monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Server performance monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLI-based performance monitoring | ✓ | ✗ ** |
| Virtualization monitoring | ✓ | ✗ ** |
| Wireless monitoring | ✓ | ✗ ** |
| Perpetual licensing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Premium support | ✓ | ✗ *** |

### Full-stack monitoring

| Features | ![OpManager Nexus](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/opmanager-plus.svg) | ![Solarwinds](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/solarwinds.svg) |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing billed annually | $5,250 total of 250 devices | $26,220 total of 250 devices |
| Plans | OpManager Nexus | 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 | ✓ | ✓ |

## Feature-rich Solarwinds alternative

### AIOps

#### Eliminate alarm floods and reduce alarm noise with ML-powered adaptive thresholds

![Reduce alarm floods & alarm noise with ML-powered thresholds](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/eliminate-alarm-floods.webp)

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.

#### Forecast performance trends to predict performance bottlenecks and resource shortages

![Predict performance bottlenecks and resource shortages by forecasting performance trends](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/forecast-performance-trends.webp)

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.

#### Get alerted for abnormal network traffic with ML-driven pattern analysis

![Get alerts for abnormal network traffic with ML-driven pattern analysis](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/get-alerted-for-abnormal.webp)

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.

### Automation

#### Expedite IT incident response with workflow automation

![Use workflow automation to expedite IT incident response](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/expedite-it-incident.webp)

OpManager has a script-less drag-and-drop workflow automation features with 70+ actions to help you execute complex outcome-based IT remediation workflows, troubleshooting steps, and network management tasks with ease.

#### Leverage in-built Ansible integration to automate fault resolution

![Use OpManager's Ansible integration to automate fault resolution](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/leverage-in-built-ansible.webp)

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.

#### Automate device discovery, classification, and configuration

![Automate device discovery, classification, and organization](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/automate-device-discovery.webp)

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. You can use programmable configlets to automate configuration actions across your network devices.

### Observability

#### Correlate IT performance across the stacks with application-to-network visibility

![Use network path analysis profiles to get end-to-end network visibility](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/correlate-it-performance.webp)

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.

#### Get end-to-end network visibility with network path analysis profiles

![Use organization maps to get network-to-application visibility across the IT stack](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/get-end-to-end.webp)

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.

#### Extend OpManager's monitoring and management capabilities with in-built add-ons

![Use our in-built add-ons to extend monitoring and management capabilities](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/extend-opmanagers.webp)

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.

### Integrations

#### Speed up IT incident response and resolution with ITSM integrations

![Leverage ITSM integrations to speed up IT incident response and resolution](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/speed-up-it-incident.webp)

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.

#### Out-of-the-box integrations to simplify collaboration and cross-platform workflows

![Simplify cross-platform workflows with out-of-the-box integrations](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/leverage-out-of-the-box.webp)

OpManager supports integrations with powerful collaboration tools like **Microsoft Teams** and **Slack** as well as IT analytics, log, and alarm management tools like **Splunk, 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.

#### Build custom integrations with REST APIs and Webhooks

![Use REST APIs and Webhooks to build custom integrations](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/build-custom-integrations.webp)

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.

## OpManager, in a minute-and-a-half

![OpManager, in a minute-and-a-half](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/opm-overview-video.avif)

Eliminate network bottlenecks and minimize unplanned downtime with an all-in-one monitoring console. OpManager's historic, real-time, and predictive insights can help you improve performance across your network, server, and storage systems.

## Switch from Solarwinds to OpManager effortlessly!

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

**Your satisfaction is our priority. If you're not satisfied with the product, we will refund your purchase in full. No questions asked, no risks involved. Make the switch with total peace of mind.**

**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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