WhatsUp Gold Review

PROS: WhatsUp Gold is a reliable tool that always notifies us when a system is down or experiencing an outage. We can easily customize the dashboard to whichever we give priorities, and more importantly, they have a user-friendly interface.

CONS: It has so many features that it is hard to learn how to use.

PROS: Monitoring real-time immediately after the setup.

CONS: It uses 32-bit processing, which makes its performance take more time to discover devices in virtual platforms.

PROS: Testing of SSL certificates. Highly configurable dashboard, SNMP OID, WMI measurements. Plans are also quite flexible—they charge according to the number of devices instead of items being monitored.

CONS: I wish we could do testing SNMP in relation to MIBS.

PROS: Very functional, has a lot of features, great for monitoring the overall health of IT infrastructure, great for a small team of IT.

CONS: Virtual machine add on is difficult to integrate with the system. Cannot monitor clusters.

PROS: Great for growing businesses, it can be scaled according to needs.

CONS: I wish we can customize what to streamline as a process.

PROS: Been using WhatsUp Gold for more than five years now. It was so easy to set up and to use compared to our old monitoring tool.

CONS: I do not dislike anything about WhatsUp Gold.

PROS: Easy to monitor everything with their dashboard. I can allocate one monitor for the dashboard so I can see their status easily at one look.

CONS: Nothing I dislike for now.

PROS: Easy to monitor our network activities using WhatsUp Gold. It quickly notifies our team when systems need attention. Each team member can also monitor different aspects of the system.

CONS: The layout needs improvement.

PROS: Easy to set up, great for monitoring different activities, has alert features that make investigations really easy.

CONS: Consumes a lot of resources, glitchy interface.

PROS: Great for mapping devices. I love how it shows the relationship of each device to one another.

CONS: The function of alerting us according to pings, is not effective and needs to be verified if it is related to the downing device.

PROS: We have been using WUG for ten years now and it never disappoints! We use it as a central alerting tool for our servers and we are immediately notified when something happens.

CONS: Not a very user-friendly interface, but it has all the features that we need, so all is good.

PROS: Easy monitoring of more than 3000 devices. Easy to set up, easy to make changes on the system.

CONS: More server templates

PROS: WhatsUp Gold is a flexible and intuitive software that monitors all tech applications, services, and devices. It’s a great tool for IT.

CONS: WhatsUp Gold has many functions, but it would help if we could customize its uses per department.

PROS: Easy to set up, not at all complicated. Adding new systems and devices was also easy, just scan or provide specific IP, subnet, or FQDN.

CONS: Not very intuitive. Adding non-default monitors is tedious.

PROS: We have used WhatsUp Gold on our manufacturing floor and it helped us monitor activities in real-time. Great for automation controls.

CONS: The set up is getting unhandy at times; The system needs to be more intuitive.

PROS: Easily scan new assets

CONS: Quite tedious to add new devices that are not recognized by the system.

PROS: Quickly discovers any device that joins my network, easy to set up.

CONS: It’s lovely that it has so many features but it’s getting difficult to find what I am looking for. I need a more user-friendly interface.

PROS: I can configure it according to my needs.

CONS: The recent version crashes and needs rebooting most of the time.

PROS: Easy to set up. Monitoring all your devices and systems in real-time is a significant advantage in ensuring our systems are always up and running. We also get notifications when systems are malfunctioning. Notifications can vary depending on how urgent it would be.

CONS: Sometimes give false alerts. Manual or training material is lacking.