Azure Network Watcher vs. SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

Azure Network Watcher

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Network Watcher	Score 7.1 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's Azure Network Watcher monitors, diagnoses, and provides insights into network performance and health.	N/A
SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) helps users monitor and troubleshoot a network with over 60 tools for network management. ETS allows users to monitor and receive alerts in real time on network availability and health, and perform network diagnostics for faster troubleshooting and resolution of complex network issues. With ETS users can deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper or advanced Subnet Calculator, manage Cisco® devices with specialized…	$1,585 Per Instance

Pricing

Azure Network Watcher

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

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Azure Network Watcher	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Azure Network Watcher	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Considered Both Products	Azure Network Watcher Michael Jipping Digital Imaging Architect Chose Azure Network Watcher I really have not experiences with Solarwinds in the Azure Public Cloud. I would believe Solarwinds would have a good product in comparison. However with my experiences with Azure Tools, I do not think I would be inclined to go that route unless a reason presents itself. I am … Incentivized Helpful? FS Fabio Silva Senior Network Engineer Chose Azure Network Watcher Azure Network Watcher can help with resources in the Cloud if this device is able to send traffic. We are using Azure Network Watcher in cases Solarwinds can't cover easily like API to load balancers & additional testing. Incentivized Helpful? Mohammad Anas Application Development Analyst Chose Azure Network Watcher Azure Network watcher provides various feature that stacks up against other products such as monitoring which include network monitoring and connection monitoring etc. Diagnostic feature which includes connection troubleshoot, VPN troubleshoot etc. Logging feature which … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure Network Watcher Azure Network Watcher is built into Azure and is much more powerful, less expensive. Microsoft is investing heavily in its cloud solutions and cloud service, Microsoft is always becoming a leader in this area. The strong integration and ease of use via blades from the azure … Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Jacob Garrett Senior System Engineer Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset [Wireshark is just] not the same. It feels like in incomplete product. [SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset] is complete, not buggy and is supported[.] Incentivized Helpful? TO Thomas Osborne Network System Administrator Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset I haven't compared any tools similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. This might be because I'm pretty biased when it comes to monitoring, and reporting solutions. I've found that SolarWinds provides the biggest bang for the buck in my opinion. I'm sure there are other … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Tom Public Safety Systems Engineer Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset We honestly didn't look at much beyond this because of all of the tools this toolset had in it. We found a use for a good chunk of them right away, and are finding more every month it seems like. We really wanted to make use of the majority of the tools included so we could … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset To be honest, I'm not aware of any other toolset from a competitor that is remotely comparable. All other monitoring systems/vendors tend to use standard browser viewable monitoring systems and the option to use a locally installed software, to obtain the same results is not … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset We have used LogicMonitor, PRTG and WhatsUp Gold previously which are similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset capability. However SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is completely unique with features like - Realtime monitoring, diagnostics on the fly, network discovery, easy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset The suite of tools included is better than any other offering that I have found. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset These tools complement the Engineer's Toolset. They are excellent at detecting most issues and at keeping the network monitored and protected. However, when it comes time to dig into an issue, especially a hard to fix intermittent issue, these products lack the granularity of … Incentivized Helpful? ES Eric Stephenson Manager IS Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset I love the NPM package, but if you are doing one-off monitoring to diagnose, SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is more than adequate. The main drawback with SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is the monitoring is only valid as long as you have the laptop on (obviously). NPM provides for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Because it's a great tool. Very useful, convenient and reliant, We use it to monitor out production servers and it works just great. I use it pretty much every day, and it is very good monitoring system, that allows proactively troubleshoot certain areas, because you can see … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset SolarWinds by far exceeds the abilities of other products, and is more easily tuned to the environments. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset SolarWinds NPM and NCM use a lot of the tools available in the toolset. This is a nice combo of the two with a little bit of IPAM thrown in. I would say the toolset is geared more toward the field engineer, that will be doing work that may sever communications to the rest of … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Azure Network Watcher

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	Azure Network Watcher 8.3 Ratings 1% above category average	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset - Ratings
Automated network device discovery	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network monitoring	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts	9.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network capacity planning	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network mapping	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable reports	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Azure Network Watcher	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Network Watcher	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Likelihood to Recommend	Azure Network Watcher is well-suited for cloud environment, it's necessary for the network troubleshooting. It is especially useful in where you have done integration with azure virtual wan and custom routes (udr) to control traffic in a hub & spoke network with Azure firewall. When the traffic is manipulated with udr, the troubleshooting at the routing level becomes important in some cases. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	[SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is] a great tool for monitoring database servers, highly recommended. The very good thing is that it keeps the history for two weeks, and you can see the time slice for all the server activities. Helps a lot to identify the memory and CPU bottlenecks, research blocking issues and kill the sessions, if necessary. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Monitor endpoints Health for Azure Traffic Manager Monitor VM Machine resources Deliver reports for IT department Incentivized FS Fabio Silva Senior Network Engineer Read full review	Debugging Tools Saves Time for basic checks Ping, Telnet, SSH right from the console and hence easy user management from console itself Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Read full review
Cons	Security measures can be improved Initial Setup process is complex and should be simplified User interface can be improved Incentivized Mohammad Anas Application Development Analyst Read full review	The unifying component that is intended to be the initial interface to the tools seems clunky. I prefer to start the tools individually rather than using it. The port scanner could use some improvements to make it easier to use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Very easy to use and intuitive. Just be careful with the WAN Killer...it does what it says. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Our organization uses it regularly. It is reliable, and we keep finding new uses for it Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Azure Network watcher provides various feature that stacks up against other products such as monitoring which include network monitoring and connection monitoring etc. Diagnostic feature which includes connection troubleshoot, VPN troubleshoot etc. Logging feature which includes network traffic analysis and helps in understanding network traffic more efficiently. All these features in azure network watcher make it worth. Incentivized Mohammad Anas Application Development Analyst Read full review	These tools complement the Engineer's Toolset. They are excellent at detecting most issues and at keeping the network monitored and protected. However, when it comes time to dig into an issue, especially a hard to fix intermittent issue, these products lack the granularity of monitoring needed for these types of issues. Having said that the toolset is not made to do full time enterprise level monitoring. With these tools and the toolset I am able to have a more complete view of the network and deliver higher levels of service and quicker responses to issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Helped us diagnose IP and Port flow from a DNS integration project resulting in success of the project Has helped numerous times analyzing IP Port flow from Resources Incentivized Michael Jipping Digital Imaging Architect Read full review	Spend less time downloading free buggy tools All the tools in one spot, so you don't have to look around for tools Get to the solution sooner Incentivized Jacob Garrett Senior System Engineer Read full review
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