SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

600 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SolarWinds NPM	Score 8.3 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

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SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

Editions & Modules

NPM: $1,638
per year

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
SolarWinds NPM
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

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Community Pulse
	SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
Considered Both Products	SolarWinds NPM Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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? FS Fabio Silva Senior Network Engineer Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) I didn't test other products Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) None Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) SolarWinds NPM is easy to use, user-friendly, more cost-effective compared with other vendor products, and has very good software product support. Incentivized Helpful? Jesse Bridgelal Network Architect Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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? BS Brett Stone Network Operations Manager Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 Team Lead Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 Technician Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 Executive Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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? NK Ned Kelley Cyber Security Engineer / Analyst Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 Employee Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Have not used any of their other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) None. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 Administrator Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) allows us to monitor all of our network devices regardless of the vendor. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 Manager Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) It has great out-of-the-box templates and is easy to configure. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 Consultant Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 Engineer Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) We chose SolarWinds for the functionality it offered us for the price point. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Solarwinds is much easier to manage. Incentivized Helpful? Shahab Razak Senior Network Architect Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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 … Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (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?
Top Pros	Pro Real time Pro Easy to use Pro Network devices
Top Cons	Minus Web interface Minus Heat maps Minus Sql database

Features

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 7.9 231 Ratings 4% below category average
Automated network device discovery	7.8210 Ratings
Network monitoring	8.7231 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	8.0201 Ratings
Alerts	8.9228 Ratings
Network capacity planning	7.8188 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	7.2130 Ratings
Network mapping	7.1190 Ratings
Customizable reports	7.9212 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	7.2153 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	8.8215 Ratings

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User Ratings
	SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (237 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.3 (27 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (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)

User Testimonials
	SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
Likelihood to Recommend	SolarWinds Solarwinds NPM is well suited for medium to large networks, it may be a bit heavy for the SOHO environment as most of the tools and reports are designed for monitoring KPIs which may not be critical for a small shop. NPM can handle large networks with several sites and mixed technologies ranging from networks, server systems, storage devices and SLA reporting. Incentivized Jesse Bridgelal Network Architect Read full review
Pros	SolarWinds Out of the Monitoring of almost all Network Devices. Build custom pollers to monitor which is not supported out of the box. Further you can alert on these custom metrics and Out of the box metrics. It provides you great dashboards, Reports features. You can integrate it with any MoM layer tools either using its API or sending out traps. Out of the box Integration with Service Now ITSM Tool. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	SolarWinds The software upgrade process is a little hairy and has caused me trouble on occasion. The server that it needs to run is a bit of a resource hog along with the SQL server. Some additional features like the network map are a bit clunky compared to some other products that we use. Incentivized Curt Sminkey Network Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	SolarWinds The entire IT staff relies on NPM in its daily operations. It would be impossible for us to maintain our level of service without it. If SolarWinds gets to proud of their product and begins to over charge for it, we would be forced to reconsider and use a different product. But as it stands it is worth the price to renew it. Incentivized Dwain Erhart Systems and Security Administrator Read full review
Usability	SolarWinds SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is quite an extensive product, covering all our bases and requirements. There are a lot of customizable options and features which you can work with for their alerting which is really useful. I haven't found anything yet which I thought SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) could do, but it actually couldn't so overall it works nicely and does the job. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	SolarWinds Always available. Always is important to plan the software available during the machine/application setup. Incentivized FS Fabio Silva Senior Network Engineer Read full review
Performance	SolarWinds Pages load slow, especially the bettors map. Could be that my server is old. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	SolarWinds In all of the times that we called support, someone at SolarWinds had the answer for us in a timely manner. Through thwack and other internet searching, we have been able to resolve all of our issues that arose to our satisfaction. The support staff have always been knowledgeable of their products or had a fellow support staff member to rely on to get the needed answers. Incentivized JA Jim Arendt IT Technician / Application Specialist Read full review
Online Training	SolarWinds The training is good but during the implementation, you can get situations not learned during the training. The trainer was very open to hearing the questions about use cases and always sharing his experience. I really recommend having official training to take advantage of all features that the NPM can bring. Incentivized FS Fabio Silva Senior Network Engineer Read full review
Implementation Rating	SolarWinds Make sure your inventory is accurate. Stand up some virtual machines for testing prior to installation. Make sure your database and its credentials are setup. Think about things you want to monitor that may not be obvious - UPS units, Door hardware, PBX systems, Fabric Channel switches, firewalls, routers, switches. Try to setup SNMP on these devices and have an IP that you will assign to the new server. If you do that it will go well. Incentivized Dwain Erhart Systems and Security Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	SolarWinds 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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	SolarWinds From the direction and information I have been given it is very flexible and scalelable Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	SolarWinds SolarWinds allows us to proactively address hardware issues before they impact the business. We recently had a server that was experiencing issues sporadically and we were able to use the data from SolarWinds to track down and correct the issue before it tanked the server. SolarWinds gives our IT department some piece of mind knowing that they'll be alerted of any issues real time. We can use SolarWinds data to justify needed to replace or upgrade certain equipment that is key to our core business. Incentivized MH Matthew Harper Development Manager Read full review
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