Paragon Insights vs. SolarWinds Network Device Monitor

There are many products in this particular space. I believe Juniper has divided up the product suite which comprises automation, programmability and general DevOps, but this also makes it frustrating, as the functionality may not be inherent to the particular product. I recommend making sure all use-cases are covered by the product or products prior to being implementation, because a partial solution may grow stagnant or losing funding if it does not meet all KPI.

Incentivized

On its own, it's a solid choice for an SMB or Mid-size Enterprise if you're price sensitive and looking primarily for core functionality. SolarWinds has a large family of products that can also be leveraged in conjunction with SWNDM. Turning the product loose on a very large environment for discovery and mapping should be done with care and concern for a number of reasons but including the performance of the product for this task. If you're looking for an all-in-one product with some presumed supporting features built in (config manager, etc.) you'll need to look elsewhere.

Incentivized

• Visibility: it is one of its key features that supports us by showing multidimensional views and facilitates [use] in the monitoring process.
• Customization: its flexibility is worth appreciating and its dashboard offers customizations and we can have resource metrics according to our personalization.
• Integration: integration is easy and great that allows us to integrate it with any 3rd source platform.
• Data collection is another feature that allows us to collect data in our desired standard method.

Incentivized

• Monitor for and record network device configuration changes.
• Allow for the creation, or modification, of hardening standards for multiple vendors' network devices.
• Automate the creation of alerts that can be sent to owners for correction of compliance violations.
• Allow you to organize a visualization of your network devices.

Incentivized

• Appliance-version would be a nice addition
• Additional product/protocol support for a wider data ingress
• Better documentation / online support

Incentivized

• More security put into the product, the Orion hack was not good news.
• More frequent releases to address small bugs rather than big releases that are rare.
• More IPv6 related features to make it easier for people familiar with IPv4 to learn IPv6.
• Ability to edit dashboards using JSON or another similar language.

Incentivized

We decided to go for Paragon after checking all the pros and
cons as we didn’t have a good experience of Memfault and maybe it was just
because we haven’t made enough research on it and we had to suffer cause of its
malfunctioning and difficulty. Moreover, I think that I can never regard
Memfault as a complete package which Paragon insight definitely is.

Incentivized

MS is meant for windows monitoring and up/down for mostly everything else. Moved away from MS System Center. Now we have better visibility and management can get reports. The other teams have added Linux to Solarwinds and also see improvements in monitoring. Whether you use snmp (v3), wmi or some other credentials to connect to you system, Solarwinds will more than likely be able to manage and monitor it.

Incentivized

• The KPI shown in the dashboards has assisted in business devices.
• The playbooks with user- or event-triggered actions has reduced manhours.
• The automated workflow has reduced outages due to human error.

Incentivized

• Reduced site visits and recurring issues by 25 to 35%
• Enables proactive warning, thereby reducing downtime caused by unforeseen issues
• Provides a central panel for monitoring the entire network at a glance
• Allows for SLA management thereby increasing accountability by 50%
• Reduced time to repair by 35% as techs are more informed of root cause

Incentivized