WhatsUp Gold vs. Solarwinds Orion
The WhatsUp Gold product family delivers comparable functionality but at a much lower cost – as much as 8 times less. For details on how these two product families match up, read our WhatsUp Gold Premium vs. Solarwinds NPM comparison paper.
The difference in price is directly attributed to the different licensing philosophies. Solarwind’s licensing is based on the number of "elements" managed (e.g. interfaces or volumes), while WhatsUp Gold believes in simple, direct device-based charging. So is Solarwinds making profits at your expense?
The Clear Cut Winner is WhatsUp Gold
- The most intuitive, easy to deploy, and cost effective network management solution available today
- Comprehensive visibility, actionable intelligence, and complete control to make not only fast decisions, but better ones
- Fault, performance and configuration management in one single integrated platform and product family
- Managing over 100,000 small business, enterprise and service provider networks worldwide
The Clear Cut Winner is WhatsUp Gold
Licensing peace of mind with Unlimited Monitors
WhatsUp Gold’s simple and direct ‘device’ based licensing policy means you can always expand the monitoring of an individual infrastructure component without decreasing your available license pool. There’s no reason to only partially monitor a device to keep costs down. You can set up all the monitoring you need to get the job done.
Comparable value at a fraction of the cost
With ‘device’ based licensing behind the cost equation, WhatsUp Gold is always going to be a much better buy than Solarwinds Orion. Solarwinds cumbersome element based licensing means that a device or system will always have tens of monitoring elements – whether they are interfaces, applications or separate user experience monitors.
Fully integrated, one console operation
The WhatsUp Gold product family is fully integrated into the core product platform for single console operation. Even the WhatsConnected plug-in, which adds Layer 2 discovery based topology and interconnection maps into WhatsUp Gold. Solarwinds Orion can’t say the same.
Expanded core product
With WhatsUp Gold Premium you can monitor all infrastructure tiers – across networks, systems and applications in one single product. This means a great price for you, and comprehensive visibility into the infrastructure from one product.
Advanced technology support
With full IPV6 support, highly customizable dashboards, and powerful MIB import and validation functionality, WhatsUp Gold holds the technical edge over SolarWinds Orion. And with exciting new features and product releases on the horizon, WhatsUp Gold is leaving Solarwinds Orion behind.
Future proof upgrades
With the purchase of any WhatsUp Gold product be it for entry level or more advanced monitoring , you can be assured that your hard work, monitor or workspace customizations, and historical data are always protected. All WhatsUp Gold products and plug-ins are part of a single product family providing seamless software upgrades.
WhatsUp Gold vs. Solarwinds Orion Price Comparison
Solarwinds Pricing Details
Solarwinds Orion NPM (network monitoring) licensing is based on the maximum number of interfaces, devices and logical volumes monitored. It’s typically the case that the number of interfaces provides the highest count.
Solarwinds Orion APM (systems and applications monitoring) licensing is based on the number of individual monitors deployed against different system and application components and for each user experience transaction.
WhatsUp Gold Pricing Details
Our licensing is simple. It's based on the number of devices you need to monitor, meaning you pay much less for WhatsUp Gold than you would for the comparable SolarWinds Orion solution.
