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What is SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)?
SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is a network monitoring tool within the broader SolarWinds ecosystem. It includes core traffic monitoring features, as well as customizable traffic reports and alerts.
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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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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Intuitive User Interface: Users have consistently praised the intuitive and easy-to-operate user interface of the services. Many reviewers have stated that they found it simple to navigate through the system, making tasks easy to perform.
High Level of Customization: The Network Bandwidth Analyzer's level of customization has been highly valued by users. Numerous reviewers have expressed their appreciation for being able to create customized views, reports, and alerts tailored to their specific needs. This feature allows users to personalize the tool according to their requirements.
Detailed Bandwidth Information: The NetFlow Traffic Analyzer component has received praise for providing detailed information on bandwidth usage and capacity planning. Several users have described this feature as invaluable for forensic tasks. They appreciate having access to in-depth insights into network traffic, which helps them effectively manage and troubleshoot issues.
Confusing and Not Intuitive User Interface: Many users have found the user interface of the software to be confusing and not intuitive, making it difficult to navigate and perform tasks quickly. The lack of clear organization and unintuitive design elements has been a common frustration among reviewers.
Lack of Specific Packet Details: Customers have expressed a need for more specific packet details and additional information on web traffic. They desire more granular insights into individual packets, such as source/destination IP addresses, ports, protocols, and payload data. This level of detail would enable them to better analyze network traffic patterns and troubleshoot issues effectively.
Unintuitive Alerting Setup: Setting up alerting on bandwidth levels has proven to be unintuitive for users. It requires navigating through multiple menus and options, which can be time-consuming and confusing. Reviewers suggest streamlining the process by providing clearer instructions or a more intuitive interface specifically tailored for configuring alerts based on bandwidth thresholds.
Users have recommended using Netflow Analyzer for visibility of network data transfer, traffic monitoring, and bandwidth usage. They suggest trying the free trial of Netflow Traffic Analyzer for 30 days to experience its features. Users also recommend Netflow Traffic Analyzer for managing switch and router configurations, as well as pushing config changes to multiple devices. According to them, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the best tool available for monitoring network traffic and they appreciate its solid performance. Users find NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to be a cost-effective solution for collecting netflows and a great addition to existing toolsets. They emphasize its compatibility with other SolarWinds products and regular updates. Additionally, users recommend checking if Netflow Analyzer meets specific needs before purchasing, as there may be more advanced and affordable options available. They suggest trying the evaluation version to see its benefits and conducting a proof of concept to test it in a network environment. In summary, users find SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to be a useful and easy-to-use tool that delivers on its promises, making it suitable for companies with large networks and organizations of all sizes.
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March 03, 2023
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
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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.
- Traffic analysis (top conversations, top talkers)
- Flow Navigator
- Flow-based alerting
- Application recognition
March 08, 2022
Best tool in the Network monitoring space
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.
- 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
March 06, 2022
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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
January 26, 2022
Excellent for data replication and bandwidth monitoring
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.
- Performance Analysis for services
- Customizable reports and dashboards
- Bandwidth alerting and monitoring
- Cross compatibility with other applications.
- Better cloud monitoring
- Action automation
January 24, 2022
Great Product That has Potential for Even More Greatness!
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.
- Bandwidth utilization
- Identification of rogue users
- Identification of rogue websites
- Reporting turnaround time
- More granular filtering
- Needs more ability to collaborate with multiple sources
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.
- Displaying traffic usage data
- Internet bandwidth utilization reports
- Better integration with Palo Alto
- Better UI for displaying data
January 19, 2022
NTA is great for analyzing flow data and visualize it
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.
- 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
January 19, 2022
Easy to Use Bandwidth Monitoring Tool
SolarWinds Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is used by our Network and Security Team to detect, diagnose and resolve network issues. We use NTA to monitor sFlow Traffic to monitor real-time network utilization, analyze performance and traffic patterns, endpoints, and receivers. NTA also provides visibility to what applications are being used and sending traffic. Provides stats based on traffic received on certain ports. The server team also uses NTA to monitor East-West traffic in our VM environment (hypervisors).
- 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.
July 31, 2021
NTA - Helps you find the bandwidth
The core use of NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is to determine how our company's bandwidth is being used and by whom. It provides a real time visual that collects, analyzes and reports the bandwidth usages.
- collection of traffic data
- the analyzes
- reporting
- graphs and charts need work on navigation
- port monitoring design
- needs more troubleshooting methods embedded
May 31, 2021
Solarwinds - An excellent NTA
We use SolarWinds Netflow to monitor network performance and traffic. The IT department controls the product and monitors the entire infrastructure with it. We primarily use it to monitor link usage and to keep an eye on bandwidth issues etc. It allows us to alert on when a link is being over utilised or we see any problems occuring.
- 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.
November 30, 2020
Real Network Bandwidth Monitor
SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is being used along with npm and NCM. As npm covers fault monitoring and NCM provides Network Devices Configuration details and compliance checks done, the only left item was to audit and analyse who is eating the bandwidth and how - that's where NTA fits in. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is being used to analyse Network traffic and who is consuming the bandwidth for better planning and [to] ensure security.
November 17, 2020
Monitoring at it's best
We use this product to monitor our bandwidth and packet traffic. It also allows us to see what devices access our other devices in our network and websites visited. I use a monitor to see traffic flow so that I can be prepared for any problems that might arise and respond in a timely manner. Being proactive is always better than being reactive.
The instance I use [of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)] is used by our department only. There are other installations across the organization. When we have network issues at a site, it helps determine what the issue is ( bandwidth flooding, undesirable traffic, improper traffic, etc) and helps identify what devices are the bad actors. We can see conversations per device and the utilization for each conversation. Protocols are also identified.
November 11, 2020
Is NetFlow from SolarWinds worth it?
Across the entire organization. Really helps troubleshooting bandwidth related issues and helps us keep an eye on if it's legitimate traffic and if we really need to upgrade our MPLS links.
October 28, 2020
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Review
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is being used for the IT department to analyze traffic engineering for issues/troubleshooting or capacity planning. Personally, I think is one of the best tools to get Netflow information in real-time to analyze. It is simple and friendly to read compared with others even for non-technical people or decision-makers.
- Easy to deploy
- Easy to read and make reports
- Real-time traffic
- Upgrade decision in terms of bandwidth
- Reports and Alerts
September 02, 2020
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Review
As a service provider, we need to monitor for various scenarios. Have set up custom SWQL alerts to monitor for denial of service attacks on our customers. SolarWinds NTA also facilitates bandwidth monitoring for billing purposes for usage and overage charges.
- 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
August 04, 2020
SolarWinds - Very strong windy Netflow Tool
It is used by a Department - Network Monitoring Team.
One of the important use case is it helps us to identify any outage in network, real-time and team responds immediately.
This reduces the business impact, we being a customer service entity.
One of the important use case is it helps us to identify any outage in network, real-time and team responds immediately.
This reduces the business impact, we being a customer service entity.
- It gives bandwidth information on interfaces basis.
- Helps in identifying any system if infected and team can isolate that endpoint.
- Denial-of-service can be identified and stopped. One of the key aspects again.
- Reporting and integrating with other tools like NAC solution.
- Can adapt ML/AI going forward.
- Auditing can be improved and self analysis within tool itself.
July 14, 2020
SolarWinds NTA
NTA is being used in our internal IT department to monitor all of our VM's as well as networking devices such as switches, ASA's, routers, etc. The problem that NTA addresses is real-time visibility into our network. Being able to see what devices are up and what traffic is passing through is crucial for business.
- Traffic passing.
- Isolate user data.
- Integration.
July 09, 2020
NTA : Great Netflow analyzer in Solarwinds suite
We searched for a Netflow analyzer to help operations to understand how data are going through network.
As we already use SolarEWnds (NPM, NCM, ...), NTA was a logical solution as it reuses all polled devices.
As we already use SolarEWnds (NPM, NCM, ...), NTA was a logical solution as it reuses all polled devices.
- Good integration with other SolarWinds modules (NPM, NCM, IPAM, etc.).
- Easy to install and use.
- Auto discover of interfaces.
- Troubleshooting is not easy in cases of NTA problems.
- Static interface.
- Not easy to cross data between nodes.
April 24, 2020
Found the Perfect Flow
We have been using SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for quite some time at our organization for monitoring bandwidth and traffic patterns.
We use it organization-wide to monitor users or applications with high bandwidth utilization. These helps us to maximize the up-time of our network and applications leading to smooth and fast access to the internet and data center applications.
Our overall experience with this tool is very positive and has helped us a lot in keeping our infrastructure lag free.
We use it organization-wide to monitor users or applications with high bandwidth utilization. These helps us to maximize the up-time of our network and applications leading to smooth and fast access to the internet and data center applications.
Our overall experience with this tool is very positive and has helped us a lot in keeping our infrastructure lag free.
- Monitoring Network Bandwidth is the best feature we see in this tool as its detailed insights help us in allocating bandwidth to users correctly.
- It can be deployed very easily, efficiently and quickly. We deployed it in a few hours at our organization.
- It is good at finding Hosts or IP addresses that communicate more or frequently in the network.
- The dashboard is a little complex for a layman to understand. I remember when I was new to this product I had a difficult time in understanding the traffic patterns.
- Technical Support Assistance is quite complex and difficult to obtain and it has a lot of room for improvement.
- Training material is not easy to find. More training videos would be appreciated.
March 20, 2020
SolarWinds NTA at a glance
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is used to analyze the network-related traffic across the organization.
- SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer gives network packet drops.
- SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides very good stats on routers, firewalls, etc.
- It helps us analyze the network flow very well.
- Every thing regarding SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is manual.
- We need to put a lot of things together on our own while debugging issues.
March 06, 2020
NTA will help give you an ideal view of bottlenecks and help you find a solution quickly!
Used across the organization by collecting data from the SNMP and WMI sources to combine into a set of data to analyze. Bandwidth monitoring is also a great asset to have to keep an eye on your environment.
- Very friendly dashboard to show basic users and upper management network results.
- Can help the troubling problem of "everything is slow" and help give some answers to the root cause.
- Can eat up a lot of resources and get slow at times.
- Somewhat pricey but you get a lot for your buck.
February 14, 2020
Desktop Technician's View of SolarWinds
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is being used by our IT department to monitor and detect network issues and to troubleshoot.
- Provides up to date, real time network statistics.
- Shows node outages for pinpointing issues.
- I don't have any suggestions.
February 10, 2020
NetFlow in education flow
It is being used across all our sites to monitor our bandwidth usage.
- User-friendly dashboard.
- Metered at a glance statistics.
- Phone app integration.
- AD integration for 801.x port utilization.