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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.
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.
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.
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.
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