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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.
Download a free trial today: https://www.solarwinds.com/netflow-traffic-analyzer/registration
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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Network traffic visibility is more important than ever. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer expands that visibility to include IPv6 flow records, Palo Alto devices, and provides deployment flexibility and support for use of Azure® SQL as a data repository.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
Progress WhatsUp Gold, Cisco ThousandEyes, and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE are common alternatives for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA).
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The most common users of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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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July 14, 2020
SolarWinds NTA
SolarWinds is the only tool I've used for netflow traffic analyzing. I can't say that I've used any other types of products to even monitor our networks. SolarWinds has always been the tool I've used for any network insight needed from any organization. I am a huge fan of using this product over others that I can't compare anything else.
April 24, 2020
SolarWinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer
SolarWinds has a simplified design and visualization. Additionally, the discovery and management of devices along with graphical visualizations and report creation was a huge benefit for us on our network status. Support from SolarWinds has been phenomenal, we have utilized services from implementation through troubleshooting and general questions as to use and best practices.
April 24, 2020
Found the Perfect Flow
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer has more features compared to Wireshark and WhatsUp Gold.
Wireshark provided raw outputs while we were looking for intuitive graphical interface hence SolarWinds was preferred over Wireshark.
And WhatsUp Gold was good at monitoring networking infrastructure but we went ahead with SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for the fact that it can analyse traffic patterns as an addition to all the WhatsUp Gold features.
Wireshark provided raw outputs while we were looking for intuitive graphical interface hence SolarWinds was preferred over Wireshark.
And WhatsUp Gold was good at monitoring networking infrastructure but we went ahead with SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for the fact that it can analyse traffic patterns as an addition to all the WhatsUp Gold features.
March 20, 2020
SolarWinds NTA at a glance
There are not many tools in the market that provide a lot of info on networks that also integrate with other server related components like SAM, NCM, etc. SolarWinds NTA and all other modules need to embed a bit of AI into them which can give a lot more value than what it is doing now, however, that probably won't happen anytime soon.
March 06, 2020
NTA will help give you an ideal view of bottlenecks and help you find a solution quickly!
- Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA)
SolarWinds has been the best by far.
February 14, 2020
Desktop Technician's View of SolarWinds
Haven't used any others.
February 10, 2020
NetFlow in education flow
Brocade network advisor was great but it was too vendor-specific. It gave us the ability to make software upgrades from one location. It also provided real-time information on interface utilization to see anomalies in the network traffic.
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is easier to use than AspenONE.
January 21, 2020
SolarWinds Netflow
We are actually switching away from SolarWinds because it was overly complicated to maintain and the sales department is way too pushy and overwhelming with calls and emails.
December 20, 2019
Helps to provide a total view of your enterprise
If you want to have a total view of your network and enterprise, it's a challenge to go with only a point solution. We've taken an approach that, while it feels sub-optimal in some ways, leverages multiple monitoring products to see the entire enterprise. Part of the issue that we face on a daily basis is that we make vendor choices, and those vendor choices have implications on our ability to monitor. For example, our core processing system and our online banking system are from two different vendors with two different architectures and two separate levels of system access. Sometimes we're forced to put in place what we can, rather than what we want. SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is one of the suite of tools we use that helps us get closer to that total view.
We have tried to test other tools and the results have been very poor, our infrastructure is based on Cisco and the adaptability is formidable, it is not necessary to install accessories as in other tools and this makes a difference. We have tested other solutions but fail to surpass Netflow for the results that are required.
We haven't tried any other NTA products, this was the first one we tried and bought and still works for us after all these years. No need to look for anything else as far as I'm concerned.
Solarwinds totally outshines PRTG for many reasons. Specifically, its presentation and the amount of details that are available only in Solarwinds NTA.
November 17, 2019
Network Analysis with SolarWinds- You get what you pay for.
No other products were tested.
November 14, 2019
Occasional User of Netflow
I have not done a detailed evaluation of PRTG vs. SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer. I selected SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer because I am already using other SolarWinds products.
November 10, 2019
Network Traffic Analyzer: Network Engineer's best friend!
Upon comparing in all aspects, Solarwinds was our first choice due to the better price point.
November 04, 2019
Catch the hog before it sucks up all your resources! SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is the answer.
So .. I still use Wireshark, but it can't even compare to Netflow. I went to the best of the best with SolarWinds out of the gate. Wireshark is just another utility I have used to gather traffic flows. SolarWinds puts all the data into a very understandable graph. The SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is so much easier to use than Wireshark. I continue to be amazed at the amount of data that my organization pushes; Wireshark could never present me that kind of information!
September 18, 2019
Netflow Traffic Notes
Opmanager was a good product and they did have layer 2 visibility. We wanted to try SolarWinds NetFlow but was disappointed because of the lack of features we needed. So we did without and removed the module.
August 31, 2019
Flow of your life.
August 29, 2019
Analyzer gets the job done
Solarwinds has more feature customization, but they are complicated to use however the vendor provided support so we decided to go with Solarwinds.
June 27, 2019
"I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for that pesky SolarWinds NTA!" -- The person using all your bandwidth
The only product that was any real competition was ThousandEyes. I've used WUG in the past and wasn't impressed. With a significant investment into the Orion platform, leverage NTA data inside of our current environment made perfect sense. ThousandEyes offers some impressive features, but the price point was significantly higher than NTA and we could not make a financial argument for it.
ProTip: SolarWinds NPM includes probes that do hop-based latency monitoring called NetPath. ThousandEyes has similar probes -- but the probes from NPM are free whereas ThousandEyes charges (charged?) for them.
ProTip: SolarWinds NPM includes probes that do hop-based latency monitoring called NetPath. ThousandEyes has similar probes -- but the probes from NPM are free whereas ThousandEyes charges (charged?) for them.
March 02, 2019
Simple netflow analyzer review
Have not used other products.
We found Network Bandwidth Analyzer to be superior to other competing applications in price and performance. Ease of operation and customization was also a factor in favor of Network Bandwidth Analyzer. The user community associated with SolarWinds was also a factor in our selection process. The Thwack community is very active and helpful in bringing a SolarWinds instance online and into production.
January 28, 2019
SolarWinds NTA - Analyze This!
We used Nagios previously and also the Nagios Netflow Analyzer. It did a good job, but SolarWinds Network Traffic Analyzer is far superior and far more feature-rich in terms what you get. The planning it provides and alerting easily outweighs what Nagios Netflow can give. It is heavier in terms of deployment, but its understandable given the features.
December 28, 2018
SolarWinds NTA is a time saver
We already have several other Solar Winds products, so we did not compare NTA to competing products. We are trying to keep down the number of different products to support and maintain with limited staff.