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Unified Observability for Network Monitoring & Cloud Visibility
This unified monitoring platform delivers complete visibility across networks, servers, and cloud environments—making it a strong SolarWinds alternative for modern IT teams. By combining metrics, logs, and traces into one intelligent dashboard, it lets you monitor performance end-to-end, detect issues proactively, and maintain a resilient IT infrastructure.
AI-Driven Insights for Smarter IT Monitoring
Built with intelligent analytics, the platform analyzes every data signal across your IT stack to predict potential issues and uncover hidden patterns. It brings smarter troubleshooting, faster root-cause detection, and more reliable operations, ideal for teams seeking an advanced observability platform without added complexity.
Proprietary Data Store for Advanced Observability & SolarWinds Alternative Advantage
MotaStore, the platform’s exclusive data engine, ensures fast ingestion and powerful analytics across hybrid IT environments. This high-performance data store enhances monitoring accuracy and gives IT, DevOps, and security teams deeper insights than traditional network monitoring tools.
High-Cardinality Data Processing for Faster Analytics
Engineered to handle massive, high-cardinality datasets, MotaStore delivers rapid analytics, instant visualizations, and effortless querying. Its purpose-built design makes it easier to explore metrics, logs, and events—an advantage for organizations looking to move beyond SolarWinds limitations.
Easy Self-Hosting for Unified Monitoring & SolarWinds Alternative Flexibility
The platform simplifies deployment with an easy-to-manage architecture and unified backend. This eliminates the complexity of juggling multiple monitoring tools and provides a streamlined observability experience, making it a preferred choice for businesses seeking a reliable SolarWinds alternative.
Motadata vs SolarWinds:
The Ultimate Comparison for the Best SolarWinds Alternative
Motadata AIOps
SolarWinds NPM
- Single
- Built-in
- Usage-based
- Known & Unknown
- 1 Years +
- Datastores
- Context
- Pricing
- Troubleshoot
- Retention
- Multiple
- Humans
- Ingest-based
- Known
- Days
Why We’re the Leading SolarWinds Alternative With More Features and Fewer Paywalls?
We help IT teams replace SolarWinds with a unified, scalable monitoring platform that processes billions of metrics with ease. Our powerful observability capabilities and lower paywalls are exactly why so many teams choose us as their preferred SolarWinds alternative.
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Database | Proprietary Database | MS SQL |
| OS | Linux | Windows |
| Min. Polling Interval | 1 Sec with Agent | 10 Sec. |
| High Availability | Yes | Yes |
| Agent | Agent-Based and Agent less Monitoring | Agent-Based and Agent less Monitoring |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| SNMP v1 to v3 | Yes | Yes |
| CLI | Yes | Yes |
| SSH & Telnet | Yes | Yes |
| HTTP/HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
| ICMP | Yes | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Metrics Explorer | Yes | No |
| Baseline Threshold | Yes | No, Supported in SAM |
| Anomaly Detection | Yes | No, Available in Database Performance Analyzer |
| Forecasting | Yes | No |
| Identify Outliers | Yes | No, Available in Database Performance Analyzer |
| Capacity Planning | Yes, servers, virtualization, cloud services, network device. | No, Only supported in storage Monitoring |
| Topology | Yes | Yes |
| Runbook | Yes | Yes |
| Support for Custom Runbook Plugin with Go and Python language | Yes | Yes |
| Root Cause Analysis | Yes | No, requires separate product |
| Metrics Correlation | Yes | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Network Device Discovery via SNMP, ICMP & CIDR | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic Server Services discovery | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled Discovery | Yes | Yes |
| Layer2 Discovery | Yes | Yes |
| VLAN Discovery | Yes | Yes |
| Agent for monitoring devices | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic addition of NetFlow/Syslog devices | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic Layer 2/ Layer 3 Network Maps | Yes | No |
| Support for Custom Runbook Plugin with Go and Python language | Yes | Yes |
| Category-based Infrastructure Views | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Infrastructure View | Yes | No |
| Business Views for custom grouping of devices | Yes | Yes |
| Network Traffic Maps | Yes | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Ping Check | Yes | Yes |
| TCP Based Status Polling | No | Yes |
| Schedule downtime | Yes | Yes |
| Service Level Management Dashboards | Yes | Yes |
| Support for adding custom device types | Yes | Yes |
| Real-time Perf. and Traffic Monitoring via SNMP | Yes | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring CPU, Memory and Disk Utilization & other performance metrics | Yes | Yes |
| Service Monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Service Monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Process Monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Hardware health monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| File/ Folder monitoring | Yes | No, but can be done via SAM |
| VMware Monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Xen Server Monitoring | Yes | No |
| Nutanix Monitoring | Yes | Requires separate product |
| Cisco UCS Monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Hyper-V Monitoring | Yes | Requires separate product |
| Virtual Machine monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring | Yes (AWS, Azure and M365) | Requires separate product- Hybrid Cloud Monitoring |
| Wireless Monitoring | Yes (Cisco, Ruckus, Aruba) | Ruckus not supported |
| System Health Monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Script Monitoring | Yes | No |
| URL Monitoring | Yes | No |
| Custom SNMP monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| CLI Based Perf. Monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Application Monitoring | Yes | Requires SAM |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Interfaces Monitoring for traffic, errors & discards | Yes | Yes, via SNMP & flow monitoring |
| CPU And Memory Utilization for Routers | Yes | Yes |
| Rediscover option for finding the interfaces newly added, deleted, modified etc. | Yes | Yes |
| Cisco IP SLA based WAN RTT Monitoring | No | Requires IPSLA Monitor Product. |
| Hop-wise WAN link visibility | No | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Network Configuration Management | Yes | Requires NCM add-on |
| Auto NCM Discovery from Monitor discovery | Yes | No |
| Device Template | Yes | Yes |
| Runbook Automation | Yes | Yes |
| Schedule automatic configuration backups | Yes | Yes |
| Push and revert configurations across multiple devices | Yes | Yes |
| Monitor configuration changes & receive alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Routine check on compliance for network devices | Yes | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Log Management support in single console | Yes | Requires separate product |
| Log Management for Windows, Linux, Application and Firewall Logs | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic Log Parser | Yes | No |
| Live Log Tail | Yes | No |
| Surrounding Logs | Yes | No |
| Log Explorer and Analytics | Yes | Yes |
| Log Pattern Identification | Yes | No |
| Log Anomaly Detection | Yes | No |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Support for Flow in single console | Yes | Requires separate Product |
| Supported Flow Protocols | NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, NBar2 | Yes |
| Automatic Flow data capture | Yes | Yes |
| Flow Anomaly Detection | Yes | No |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring of UPS load and Battery Status | Yes | No |
| Monitoring of input/output voltage and current | Yes | No |
| Printer Monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Highly customizable dashboards | Yes | Yes |
| CCTV or Plasma View | Yes | No |
| Event-Alarm Correlation | Yes | Yes |
| Color Coded Alarms | Yes | Yes |
| SNMP Trap Processing and Forwarding | Yes | Yes |
| SMS/Email based alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Web Alarms | Yes | No |
| Acknowledge Alarms | Yes | Yes |
| Runbook execution on the event of an Alert | Yes | Yes |
| Syslogs Monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts based on Windows Event Logs | Yes | Yes |
| Alarm Escalation | No | Yes |
| Alarm Suppression | Yes | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| SLA Dashboards for Servers, Routers, Switches etc. | Yes | No |
| Server Availability/Outage Report | Yes | Yes |
| All Servers Availability Report | Yes | Yes |
| Discovery Reports | Yes | Yes |
| Top N Servers by CPU, Memory and Disk Utilization reports | Yes | Yes |
| Top N Servers by Interface traffic report | Yes | Yes |
| Health Report for Servers, Routers, Switches etc | Yes | Yes |
| Top N report for routers by CPU and Memory Utilization | Yes | No |
| Interface Traffic/Utilization/ Error Reports | Yes | Yes |
| Peak time reports | Yes | Yes |
| WAN Link availability/ RTT report | Yes | Yes |
| Bandwidth capacity planning reports | Yes | Yes |
| Traffic reports | Yes | Yes |
| Schedule Reports | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Reports | Yes | Yes |
| Export Reports (PDF, XLS, CSV formats) | Yes | Yes |
| Email/print report | Yes | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| Provision to Create Separate User Accounts | Yes | Yes |
| Role-based user management | Yes | Yes |
| Quick Configuration Wizard (To perform configuration tasks on multiple devices) | Yes | No |
| List View for quickly pushing configurations | Yes | Yes |
| Fully functional web client | Yes | Yes |
| LDAP based authentication | Yes | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| API based integration with the existing IT management ecosystem | Yes | No |
| Help Desk Integration | Yes | Yes |
| Failover – Hot standby engine | Yes | Yes |
| 24×5 email and phone support | Yes | Yes |
| Functionality | Motadata AIOps |
SolarWinds NPM |
|---|---|---|
| 30-day trial | Yes | Available |
| Support for distributed network | Yes | Limited. Requires EOC to view data across sites. |
| Licensing- based on | No. Of Devices/Instances monitored | Element, which is either a node, interface or volume. |
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