Still Best Network Monitoring Solution Overall
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SolarWinds is used internally for our own infrastructure as well as for customers. SolarWinds is been used as the core network monitoring solution suite which does end to end network monitoring and provides visibility around each site and location's network infrastructure for any fault and performance. It also does IP Address Management, Voice Call Quality Monitoring and Netpath Services monitoring for SaaS applications like Office365.
Pros
- NetPath Services Hop by Hop ANalysis
- Netflow Monitoring
- Network Devices Configuration Backup and Configuration Push
- Voice Call Quality Services
Cons
- Support for more call infra provider vendors
- Cloud Network Monitoring
- Event Management
- Predictive Intelligence using AIOps and ML
Most Important Features
- SNMP Monitirng
- Traps and Syslog Data Analysis
- Incident Management for Faults in Service Now
- Reporting and Dashboard
Return on Investment
- Our Network Health has improved with Proactive Monitoring
- Cost reduction on additional products like PowerBI for Reporting
- Service Now Integration was easy enough and hence less efforts and cost
Alternatives Considered
LogicMonitor, ThousandEyes and Micro Focus Network Node Manager i
Other Software Used
LogicMonitor, ThousandEyes, Micro Focus Network Node Manager i
