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Observium vs. SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Observium

    Score6.1 out of 10
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    SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Network Automation Manager is designed to scale to environments of all sizes while providing comprehensive performance, traffic, WAN, and switch port monitoring, automated change and configuration, and IP address management in a single, unified software solution. Key differentiators: Customizable, single-pane-of-glass network monitoring software Topology- and dependency-aware intelligent alerts Real-time config change…N/A
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    ObserviumSolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
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    Pricing Offerings
    ObserviumSolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—SolarWinds professional support is included to help customers on active maintenance 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We can help you get back up and running when issues occur to keep your systems meeting your needs. Ask your account manager for more information about SolarWinds Premier Support offerings.
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    User Ratings
    ObserviumSolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.5
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    Support Rating
    5.0
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    User Testimonials
    ObserviumSolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Observium
    • If you are on a budget, this is one heck of a tool for the price (including the ~$200/year for the Pro subscription).
    • If you are OK with maintaining and updating open source tools, this is a great tool.
    • If you are afraid of the Linux command line or live in a Windows-centric world, this might not be the tool for you.
    • If you can't stand things occasionally not working, this is probably not a good fit.
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    SolarWinds
    Well Suited Areas - 1. Network Fault and Performance Monitoring 2. Network Devices Configuration Backup and Configuration Push 3. Netflow Analysis 4. Call Quality Monitoring for Cisco and Avaya 5. Users Ports Management 6. DSN/DHCP Monitoring 7. Alerting and Integration Not Well Suited - 1. Predictive Intelligence based Alerting or data analysis 2. REST API Based Monitoring. 3. SD-WAN Monitoring
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    Pros
    Observium
    • Automatic device discovery.
    • Scalability
    • Real-time monitoring.
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    SolarWinds
    • Fault and Performance Monitoring
    • Devices Configuration Backup
    • IP Address Management
    • Voice Infrastructure Monitoring
    • Users Ports monitoring
    • Netflow Traffic Utilization
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    Cons
    Observium
    • Documentation
    • Community support
    • Easy to set up but hard to customise fully
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    SolarWinds
    • Support for more call infra provider vendors
    • Cloud Network Monitoring
    • Event Management
    • Predictive Intelligence using AIOps and ML
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    Support Rating
    Observium
    It's open source. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes the provided documentation is beyond frustrating, other times it's right on the mark.
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    SolarWinds
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    Alternatives Considered
    Observium
    I haven't used other products that are similar to Observium. Observium is an open tool, with a robust feature set. There are elements of comparable monitoring across other tools, but nothing I've seen that is a complete parallel in terms of feature set and visualizations. If I were asked, I wouldn't have another tool to recommend over Observium.
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    SolarWinds
    Well Solarwinds is placed much ahead of these products because of the following reasons - One single tool which can perform Fault, Performance Monitoring, Network Bandwidth Utilization, Devices configuration backup, IP Address Management, NetPath, Voice Infra Monitoring, Traps and Syslog Logging, Alerting's, Users Ports Monitoring, Rpeorting etc and hence this make Solarwinds a complete solutions. Whereas other products Like Microfocus requires multiple modules and installation is not easy. LogicMonitor on the other side is well competing (Specially SD-WAN Monitoring) with Solarwinds but it still lacks Devices Configuration Push feature, IP Address Management, NetPath, Users Port Monitoring etc.
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    Return on Investment
    Observium
    • It is good for DC admin.
    • Only positive impact.
    • Highly recommended.
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    SolarWinds
    • 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
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