SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) for a variety of reasons. It does a good job with Bandwidth monitoring by identifying network congestion and potentially what is causing the congestion. It ties in flawlessly with our Cisco gear and environment. We monitor our switches, wireless controllers along with our network Servers. It helps us keep track of the resources our network gear and servers are using and have available. Part of the monitoring function is the alert portion, which allows us to set minimum/maximum alert status, then send us an alert if the device or service exceeds (or fails).

Likelihood to Recommend

We use and depend on it for status state of our network gear, switches and routers. It does an excellent job of getting you the details you need to confirm all devices and products are working at the level needed.

At times, it does tend to flag network switch ports and/or switches themselves as exceeding their rated capacity when frequently it was a quick blip of high traffic due to downloads, or uploads causing the max'ing of the device. Again, you can adjust the settings but then you adjust it too high and miss real activity. It can become nuisance alerting when you tend to then ignore.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is the powerful tool for traffic monitoring and reporting. As a NPM, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is the first step in vast majority of troubleshooting cases. It provides a simple view of all traffic passed via your network devices as well as analytics (top talkers and etc.). Very useful for understanding of network circuits utilization in key points of an infrastructure.

Likelihood to Recommend

The main area of using SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is helping to analyze the traffic. The getting information can be used in investigation of resources or circuit overutilization (as a result - inaccessibility) in real-time as well as for some period of time. Unfortunately, applications recognition is not the strong side of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) - it provides very general information.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this tool to analyze network traffic flow. This tool provides visibility into application traffic and allows us to see it in real-time and historically to provide real insight into what is actually occurring if we are experiencing difficulties with our applications. The tool can analyze many different network protocols as/vendors. It is good at tracking SNMP, packet data, etc.

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer flow alerts to monitor all traffic on the network and we have numerous alerts set up to detect high traffic utilization. The alerts are easy to set up and customized to alert different groups to different concerning situations, like high traffic, jitter, and packet loss on our VoIP network. This was especially helpful when we were asked to roll out web conferencing tools to all employees. The tool is helpful for both virtualized and physical server environments.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) has been an integral and important part of our IT environment for over a decade now. Our organization has utilized the NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) tool for monitoring and overseeing the enterprise-wide network and system data flow. NTA has become the primary tool for our administrators and engineers to review the processes, patterns, and traffic performance throughout the network.

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is well suited and applicable for our organization in the area of troubleshooting networking issues. NTA is a very helpful resource in providing keen insights for our network engineers and system administrators whenever network latency, transmission lags, and delays in data communication and traffic flow create poor performance within our IT environment.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) to monitor all of our Internet and MPLS circuits for our data centers and branch offices located in the U.S. and overseas. The SolarWinds NetFlow traffic monitoring has been set up on all kinds of devices, including routers, switches, and firewalls.

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) can be used to monitor an enterprise network containing all kinds of connections, such as Internet and MPLS VPN. NTA is very helpful to troubleshoot a network issue because it can correlate events for different sites, circuits, and devices. It is still useful for a very small and simple network; however, the benefit may not be as much.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to monitor our many office locations across the world. This allows us to monitor bandwidth, network load, and traffic flow to various services. This tool also allows us to monitor and tune backup replication across sites as well so we can optimize performance and not get behind on replication.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would suggest this tool to any user that has to monitor multiple sites and locations where bandwidth monitoring can be a labor. This software works really well for central monitoring of multiple sites and services where having a technician onsite isn't feasible. I really like the reporting, though, and would recommend this for someone wanting to keep an eye on bandwidth usage for replication of data across sites.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It allows us to view our entire network with in-depth information on how much bandwidth each user is using and also provides information on bandwidth sucking sites and devices in my network.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's great for monitoring and analyzing network traffic in real-time. It allows you to sniff out rogue users who hog the bandwidth and be alerted when there is a network traffic anomaly.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to monitor what applications are flowing across our router and firewall interfaces and to track traffic volumes.

Likelihood to Recommend

NTA is used to monitor critical transit points in our network to see application mix.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We initially bought it for Netflow data from our firewall and some internal systems. Currently, we don't use it as we have migrated to Palo Alto Firewalls, which provide much better data and have rendered [SolarWinds] NTA mostly obsolete in our environment. On occasion, we'll use [SolarWinds] NTA to monitor internal traffic to a system, but it's rare.

Likelihood to Recommend

[SolarWinds] NTA works if you don't have any other tools, but other tools provide better visibility and are easier to read.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It gives a great quick view of all the links used by just putting in an IP address, if you are collecting flow data on all your network links.

Likelihood to Recommend

Has been helpful when troubleshooting complex packet flow issues to figure out spikes in traffic, whether a packet made it through specific links, or to see what kind of protocols make up our traffic on different links.