SolarWinds NPM Alternative: Improve Your IT Monitoring Experience with Motadata AIOps

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SolarWinds NPM Alternative | Motadata vs SolarWinds

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Motadata AIOps is built as a unified observability across network, server, and cloud

Motadata AIOps acts like a single pane of glass for your IT infrastructure, giving you unified observability across networks, servers, and the cloud. It brings together data from diverse sources like metrics, logs, and traces, offering a holistic view of your IT health. Imagine a powerful dashboard that shows everything from network traffic to server performance to cloud resource utilization, all in one place. This centralized view lets you proactively identify issues, troubleshoot problems faster, and optimize your IT operations for peak performance.

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Motadata AIOps is AI ready across data sources

Motadata AIOps gathers every data from your IT landscape to predict hiccups, pinpoint issues, and optimize performance. With Motadata, you can fix problems in a flash and never miss out on a potential glitch. Motadata AIOps ensures that your IT keeps running like a finely tuned engine.

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Motadata uses propriety data store

Motadata leverages MotaStore, its exclusive data store, to enable complete data control through AI-powered analytics across various sources. This advanced data lake, characterized by its rapid data ingestion from hybrid infrastructures, enhances the capabilities of ITOps, DevOps, and SecOps.

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MotaStore is built to process high-cardinality data

Motastore excels in processing high-cardinality data, offering swift analytics and instant visualization. As a purpose-built data lake, it efficiently handles diverse datasets from metrics, logs, and events. Its innovative Motadata Query Language facilitates powerful yet user-friendly querying, enhancing data parsing and reporting for seamless workflow in hybrid infrastructure environments.

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Motadata is easy to self host and gives single pane of glass

Motadata stands out as an effortless self-hosting solution, putting an end to your quest for simplicity. Unlike other options grappling with the complexities of managing various telemetry signals, Motadata takes a different approach. It adopts a unified backend, offering a seamless and comprehensive observability experience, making the entire process much more straightforward.

Motadata vs SolarWinds:
The Ultimate Comparison

Motadata AIOps

 

SolarWinds NPM

  • Single
  • Built-in
  • Usage-based
  • Known & Unknown
  • 1 Years +
  • Datastores
  • Context
  • Pricing
  • Troubleshoot
  • Retention
  • Multiple
  • Humans
  • Ingest-based
  • Known
  • Days

Motadata Has More Features With Fewer Paywalls.

Motadata AIOps is loved by IT teams to consolidate their monitoring tools. The ability to scale to process billions of metrics and terabytes of log data makes Motadata one of the top observability platforms. This is why many of the IT teams have switched from SolarWinds to Motadata.

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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Motadata AIOps comes with robust AI capabilities bringing automation and intelligence to IT operations. The best thing about this platform is the real-time analytics and smart alerting system that enhances incident resolution, ensuring a smooth operational experience. No doubt, I feel Motadata AIOps is a one-in-all powerful solution that streamlines IT operations and ensures IT excellence at each point.

David Stubbs

Information Technology Manager

SolarWinds NPM Alternative | Motadata vs SolarWinds