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What is SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)?
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) allows the multi-vendor monitoring of network traffic flow records, the discovery of traffic patterns, and avoidance of bandwidth hogs. As an add-on to SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), NTA helps optimize spend on bandwidth by better understanding the who and what of bandwidth consumption boosting your network traffic analysis capabilities. Trace and monitor bandwidth usage of application or protocol patterns over months, days, or minutes by drilling down into any network element supporting a variety of network traffic flow standards (NetFlow, sFlow, J-Flow, IPFIX, and NetStream). Gain real-time deep Network Insights for Cisco, F5, and Palo Alto to identify critical issues quickly all in one easy to use interface.
NTA’s core features include bandwidth monitoring, application traffic monitoring, network traffic analysis, malicious traffic identification, performance analysis, and error root cause identification. The product also offers customizable traffic reports and alerts, including measuring the effectiveness of traffic prioritization policies. It is designed to integrate with other SolarWinds monitoring and management products.
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Features
- Supported: Tightly integrates with SolarWinds NPM providing valuable insights into network bandwidth consumption.
- Supported: Monitor bandwidth use by application, protocol, and IP address group. Collects and analyzes flow data from multiple vendors, including NetFlow v5 and v9, Juniper® J-Flow™, sFlow®, Huawei® NetStream™, and IPFIX.
- Supported: Application traffic alerting, alerts you if an application traffic suddenly increases, decreases, or disappears completely.
- Supported: Analyze network traffic patterns over months, days, or minutes by drilling down into any network element.
- Supported: PerfStack™ cross-stack network data correlation. Accelerate identification of root cause by dragging-and-dropping network performance metrics on a common timeline for immediate visual correlation across all your network data and NetFlow analytics.
- Supported: Advanced application recognition allows you to identify which applications and categories consume the most bandwidth for better network traffic visibility with NBAR2 support.
- Supported: Customizable network traffic reports at your finger tips. Create, schedule, and deliver in-depth network traffic analysis and bandwidth reports with just a few clicks.
- Supported: Monitor Wireless LAN Controller traffic to keep tabs on applications and clients utilizing bandwidth on your wireless network.
- Supported: Cisco Meraki wireless traffic monitoring.
- Supported: CBQoS policy optimization measures the effectiveness of pre- and post-policy traffic levels per class map to determine if QoS policies are working as planned.
- Supported: Malicious or malformed traffic flow identification with port 0 monitoring.
- Supported: Network Insight™ for Palo Alto Networks® includes collection of flow from Palo Alto firewalls to show flow through nodes and interfaces
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Integrations
- SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
- SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
- SolarWinds VoIP & Network Quality Manager (VNQM)
- SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
- SolarWinds User Device Tracker
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | No |
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Best tool in the Network monitoring space
- Providing insight into flow based technology
- Provides insight into problems with packet based technology
- Can really help with an abnormal data flow mapping
- Wirks well with other Orion products
- Cloud monitoring is lacking
- Better reporting and filtering capabilities
- Stronger integrations with other 3rd party products
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
- Tracks network traffic
- Monitors network performance
- Records network processes
- Graphic conflicts with certain browsers
- Compatibility issues with particular applications
- NTA SQL database server OS suitability a must.
- Summary view of the real time traffic status of the whole network
- Top lists of all network traffic categories
- Clickable links to dive into interesting devices for more details
- It would be nice to have an example showing the typical use for each feature
Excellent for data replication and bandwidth monitoring
- Performance Analysis for services
- Customizable reports and dashboards
- Bandwidth alerting and monitoring
- Cross compatibility with other applications.
- Better cloud monitoring
- Action automation
Great Product That has Potential for Even More Greatness!
- Bandwidth utilization
- Identification of rogue users
- Identification of rogue websites
- Reporting turnaround time
- More granular filtering
- Needs more ability to collaborate with multiple sources
NTA is a fully functional Netflow application
- Good graphics
- Easy to implement
- Easy for non-technical staff to view
- NTA has a requirement that it run on the same server [as] Orion. This prevents us from scaling horizontally and to not have all SolarWinds services running on the same server.
- Interface utilization information is difficult to determine
- Displaying traffic usage data
- Internet bandwidth utilization reports
- Better integration with Palo Alto
- Better UI for displaying data
NTA is great for analyzing flow data and visualize it
- Quick search of an IP to show over time traffic
- Great classification of protocols and showing host traffic
- Ability to create alerts off of flow data
- Slowness during search
- Alerting mechanism could have been simplified
- Bandwidth reported on Y axis isn't always correct since we are only showing 95th percentile of packets
- Monitoring data on the network
- Finding bandwidth hogs
- Drawing easy-to-read graphs
- NetFlow support for Cisco Firepower Next-Gen Firewall
Easy to Use Bandwidth Monitoring Tool
- Bandwidth Monitoring and finding bandwidth requirements.
- Analyze performance and traffic patterns.
- Provides insight into source/destination IP and port of n/w traffic flow.
- Better Reporting Features and OOB reports for measuring bandwidth utilized.
NTA: Go with the Flow(s)
- Autodiscovery of endpoints makes adding sources a breeze.
- Integrates well with existing Solarwinds products.
- Good looking graphs and reporting that are easy to read and access.
- Cost is extremely high when trying to integrate with an unlimited license.
- A few bugs with autodiscovery can be a nuisance.
NTA - Helps you find the bandwidth
- collection of traffic data
- the analyzes
- reporting
- graphs and charts need work on navigation
- port monitoring design
- needs more troubleshooting methods embedded
Solarwinds - An excellent NTA
- Easy to configure and roll out.
- Great history available, I can see detailed history on a link which helps with troubleshooting.
- Graphs available are great, excellent for management.
- SolarWinds as a whole is extremely resource hungry.
- General user interface issues, some things are not intuitive.
- Price is fairly high.
- Performance baseline for network traffic analysis
- GUI is interactive allowing drag and drop metrics on the dashboard
- Alerting via email of sudden bandwidth/traffic
- Graphs and mapping could use some improvement
- Application monitoring is not always helpful
Good network application monitor
- Bandwidth monitoring
- Application alerting
- Performance analysis dashboard
- Needing support for layer 3 Netwflow traffic
- Dashboard could be simplified further
- Application monitoring could be more detailed
Know your Flow
It also works well with IPAM and UDT to understand who that IP belongs to.
- Flow information
- Connectivity for Flow traffic for differenet devices
- Easy-to-read application information with port data
- Historical view based on storage
- Custom applications
- QoS
- The GUI is clunky
- Some of the graphs can be better
Real Network Bandwidth Monitor
Monitoring at it's best
Is NetFlow from SolarWinds worth it?
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Review
- Easy to deploy
- Easy to read and make reports
- Real-time traffic
- Upgrade decision in terms of bandwidth
- Reports and Alerts
Great product and saved our bacon!
- Provides information about where traffic is being blocked.
- Provides bandwidth information about the traffic.
- Can show where slow downs are occuring.
- It could be a little easier for the common user to setup a connection between point A and point B to display the traffic information.
So you got traffic but don't want to just keep guessing why, check out NTA and NetFlow instead of shouting at the sky
- Allows us visibility in to website/application usage.
- We can see if our guest networks are being abused.
- We can see what users are pushing the network to the limit.
- NTA receives data from a specific port from the router/switch/ firewall. But you may not always monitor that port with npm. This causes errors or you have to spend more money to monitor more ports.
- The graphs and charts can be hard to read and hard to navigate.
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Review
- Running down DOS attacks over the network
- Helping Customer Support assist customers with slow internet complaints
- Tracking usage for billing
- Creating high-level usage reports for upper management
- Needing to understand SQWL for most advanced reporting
- Some of the automated reports are not very user friendly
- Online training
SolarWinds NTA Review
- Monitor interface's network bandwith
- Traffic patterns
- Enhance bandwidth before outages occur
- Bring down the price
- Tighten up CBQoS
- Enable Linux equipment