SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

608 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SolarWinds NPM	Score7 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds NPM is a monitoring and performance management platform. It provides performance troubleshooting support, auto network discovery, customizable thresholds, and can be rapidly deployed.	$1,638 per year

Pricing

SolarWinds NPM

NPM: $1,638
per year

Pricing Offerings
SolarWinds NPM
Free Trial
Yes
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No
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	SolarWinds NPM
Considered Both Products	SolarWinds Jesse Bridgelal Network Architect in Information Technology at Ministry of Health (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees) Chose SolarWinds NPM We use NPM along with PRTG Network Monitor. While NPM is great at monitoring network devices and network links and some aspects of the servers, PRTG provides more in-depth monitoring for Server systems, applications and application ports such as Web Ports etc. PRTG also … Incentivized Helpful? Ravi Khanchandani Founder Director in Information Technology at Techsa Services Pvt Ltd (Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees) Chose SolarWinds NPM PRTG has been a very old tool that was good for plotting the utilization graphs of interfaces but lacked comprehensive device views, overall end-to-end dashboards, comprehensive reports, and alerting functions. WhatsUpGold lacked comprehensive Dashboards, Alerts, and Reporting … Incentivized Helpful? Brett Stone Network Operations Manager in Information Technology at Cape Air IT Department (Airlines/Aviation, 501-1000 employees) Chose SolarWinds NPM SolarWinds NPM stacks up very well to the competition and is superior in many ways as it has the ability to monitor more information than the competition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is dedicated to network devices so it's really efficient, Zabbix or PRTG are trying to do too many things and it's very complicated to achieve same things as with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM SolarWinds was much more flexible than other solutions, including Cisco Prime and that's why we ended up converting most of our environmental monitoring over to SolarWinds NPM. We still use Cisco Prime for wireless monitoring for the time being but may eventually transition … Incentivized Helpful? Curt Sminkey Network Engineer in Information Technology at Widener University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose SolarWinds NPM We use all of these at the moment just because we haven't found one that does everything we like. For products like the Aruba Wifi we mainly use Airwave to monitor. For our network switches, we mainly use the Extreme Management Console. Because these are products directly from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM We selected SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor because of the capabilities of the product versus the price. The tools also work well with their other products and support is fairly good. We have never had a problem when we needed to make a call. Incentivized Helpful? Fabio Silva Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at Fexco (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SolarWinds NPM I didn't test other products Incentivized Helpful? Ned Kelley Cyber Security Engineer / Analyst in Information Technology at RTX (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose SolarWinds NPM SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) was selected due to its reliability of performance, dependability of the product, and availability of tools and features for network monitoring and management. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) reputation and overall cost … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM Have not used any of their other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM None. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM We evaluated PRTG Network Monitor which was similar to SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor but was very resource-intensive, and the server kept crashing when we got close to 100 devices. Whereas on SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, we were able to add several … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM None Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) allows us to monitor all of our network devices regardless of the vendor. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM We had to migrate to Solarwinds as our current tool was not providing sufficient information and its alerting and reporting was not very fruitful for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM It has great out-of-the-box templates and is easy to configure. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM We tested Observium as an alternative to Solarwinds in the past and it required all host to be added by DNS instead of IP addresses which we prefer. We have over 2000 devices so creating DNS records for all of these was a deal breaker. We tested PRTG and it required to much … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) can easily and effectively monitor application and system performance by combining all data into a single view. It is extremely scalable and provides the visualization needed to monitor your entire infrastructure. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM Solarwinds can successfully combine pros of the other monitoring systems and be more user friendly, simple and intuitive. The list of NPM cons is not so big and most of its point can be compensated by customization (Solarwinds created a great expert community for it). The … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM We chose SolarWinds for the functionality it offered us for the price point. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM Solarwinds is much easier to manage. Incentivized Helpful? Shahab Razak Senior Network Architect in Information Technology at Finastra (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SolarWinds NPM SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor was chosen at Finastra before I got here however I have weighed the value of SolarWinds against competitors such as Netcool, ManageEngine OP manager, Nagios and NetApp and Splunk to mention a few. SolarWinds really shine when you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds NPM Orion had more capabilities that were a better fit for our specific business and monitoring needs. OpManager had some good capabilities too, but required a specific edition that has a higher cost (multi-site feature). This may no longer be a requirement, I haven't researched it … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Boggs Sr. Network Engineer in Information Technology at CGG (Oil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SolarWinds NPM What's Up Gold--I liked that it could monitor TCP ports in their base product but it was years behind on other features. Nagios--It was on older version we looked at but required too much scripting. ZABBIX--Our HPC group uses this to monitor their servers. It scales way beyond … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

SolarWinds NPM

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
Feature	SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 8.2 231 Ratings
Automated network device discovery	7.8210 Ratings
Network monitoring	8.8231 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	8.6201 Ratings
Alerts	9.4228 Ratings
Network capacity planning	7.9188 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	7.2130 Ratings
Network mapping	7.1190 Ratings
Customizable reports	7.9212 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	7.6153 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	9.4215 Ratings

User Ratings
	SolarWinds NPM
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (237 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (27 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (21 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (28 ratings)
Online Training	8.0 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (7 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (2 ratings)