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November 17, 2020

Monitoring at it's best

Susan Geye | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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The ability to watch my network flow and our devices with high bandwidth allow me to mitigate any issues that might arise. Often times I am able to resolve a problem before my departments and end users even knew there was a problem.
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November 13, 2020

NTA: if you manage more than a handful of sites, definitely worth a look.

Steve Adams | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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[SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)] does well for bandwidth utilization tracking from endpoint to endpoint, as well as what protocols are being utilized in the conversations. However, if you need a deeper dive, a product like Wireshark would need to be utilized. I have not seen the capability to store individual conversations and analyze them.
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November 30, 2020

Real Network Bandwidth Monitor

Nikhil Kumar Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nikhil Kumar Sharma
Score 10 out of 10
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If you are using SolarWinds npm, then I would definitely recommend to use NTA module along with, as without NTA Network team will miss one important piece of Bandwidth utilization. Without NTA you cannot plan Bandwidth usage in a better way. NTA is also important for security regulation, as it tells you what traffic is being generated by the endpoints, and whether its a security violation or not such as DdoS attacks.
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October 02, 2020

So you got traffic but don't want to just keep guessing why, check out NTA and NetFlow instead of shouting at the sky

Jacob Garrett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jacob Garrett
Score 10 out of 10
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When you want to find out what users are using the most internet. If you need to update your budgeting for internet upgrades. You can see that traffic over your network and in some cases it can help you find ways to segment the traffic better, this is good for things like iSCSI.
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September 02, 2020

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Review

Justin Benner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Justin Benner
Score 8 out of 10
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer works very well in tracking usage for individual endpoints on your network either for troubleshooting or for billing purposes. It allows you to deep dive into the traffic and determine if it's legitimate or malicious. Another feature we regular use is allowing our Customer Support Personal to run reports on customer usage which allows them to help people out who are having slow internet issues to determine where the slowdowns are coming from.
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August 24, 2020

Best visibility into your network flows!

Andrew Yudin, MBA/CCNP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Andrew Yudin, MBA/CCNP
Score 8 out of 10
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Solarwinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is well suited in a small, medium, or large network environments. It is capable of monitoring multiple flow data types such as Netflow, Sflow, JFlow, NetStream, or IPFIX. It is a very powerful tool, which helped my organization to track down and troubleshoot a number of issues.
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November 11, 2020

Is NetFlow from SolarWinds worth it?

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

If you already have other SolarWinds modules then it fits in nicely and gives a better consolidated view.
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October 23, 2020

Great product and saved our bacon!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Great for showing a problem in communication between you and a client.
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September 02, 2020

SolarWinds NTA Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 7 out of 10
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is best suited for a company that is very dependent on fewer outages because it costs them a lot while an outage happens. It would not be the best for a small company that doesn't handle high bandwidth needs.
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August 04, 2020

SolarWinds - Very strong windy Netflow Tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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SolarWinds can be well suited for industry that caters to customers across the globe and has lots of data to deal with from different customers.
This would help to monitor and prioritize the data to be picked, flag the service provider and reduce the impact on customer. Best suited for service provider who cater to financial sector as they are time bound revert expected and business is highly volatile.
This would not serve the purposes of a small organization where manual resources can handle the load and troubleshoot easily alone.
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July 14, 2020

SolarWinds NTA

Thomas Osborne | TrustRadius Reviewer
Thomas Osborne
Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited to those who would like to gather more statistics on what kind of traffic your network is passing. There are many applications that NTA could come in and provide help with. We enjoy being able to see quickly and accurately what our networking devices are doing with the traffic in our organization.
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March 20, 2020

SolarWinds NTA at a glance

Kiran Yakkala | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kiran Yakkala
Score 7 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer monitors our network and discovers traffic patterns that help us figure out issues related to our network. There is a lot of things NTA cannot do. Its scope is limited and can be improved by adding more analysis data.
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February 10, 2020

NetFlow in education flow

Julio Morales | TrustRadius Reviewer
Julio Morales
Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

The product is well suited for multi-site star topology networks where bandwidth is shared. At a single site, it would be less appropriate as you wouldn't need as many resources to monitor your network.
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July 09, 2020

NTA : Great Netflow analyzer in Solarwinds suite

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 8 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

It's the natural solution if you already have SolarWinds modules as it's requiring NPM.
Even if it's not really user-friendly you can add alerts for traffic, QoS support must be increased to be useful.

Easy to use for network diagnostic or traffic knowledge even without a real-time console.
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April 24, 2020

SolarWinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 8 out of 10
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SolarWinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer would be very well suited for users from the network administration through middle management, up to VP-level users, who are responsible for network and infrastructure operations within the company. SolarWinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer is used as an initial troubleshooting point for the network admin team, as well as M&A for all levels. Middle and VP-level users would benefit from, not only M&A, but the graphical reporting features often requested by upper management.
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April 24, 2020

Found the Perfect Flow

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is well suited in use cases like:

  1. Bandwidth Monitoring for Internet, MPLS & Point to Point Links.
  2. Realtime performance analysis for networking equipment like switches, routers, firewalls, virtual machines, etc where we can monitor performance of components like CPU, RAM, Storage, etc.
  3. Identifying varied traffic patterns and top talkers in an environment with ease and good accuracy.
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July 16, 2020

A Good Tool, Helps My Daily Life

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

A site internet pipe is fully used. I would like to know what traffic used up the bandwidth.
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December 10, 2019

You want to get the best results, with SolarWinds Netflow you can get it

Carlos Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Carlos Martinez
Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

I consider areas such as telecommunications are the most benefited with this tool because of the quick results it can obtain. Development areas can benefit but on a smaller scale and in isolated cases. I do not recommend it for administrative areas, it would not provide any information that provides specific solutions for its purposes.
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November 20, 2019

Solarwinds - An excellent NTA

Fraser Clark | TrustRadius Reviewer
Fraser Clark
Score 10 out of 10
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SolarWinds is great for large environments where you need detailed information as to what is flowing through your network, so if you require a deep dive into your network traffic and estate I would definitely recommend it. In situations where there is the time to put into another but perhaps more complex to configure product I would recommend that.
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November 09, 2019

Network Traffic Analyzer: Network Engineer's best friend!

Nandini pallipamu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nandini pallipamu
Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

We use this software to alert the incident management team of circuit cuts or node unavailability thereby engaging the NOC team asap. This is the best software to alert teams of network abnormalities. It is less appropriate for documentation since we cannot download the incidents or chart in a PDF format and create incident logs.
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November 04, 2019

Catch the hog before it sucks up all your resources! SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is the answer.

Jennifer Aguilar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jennifer Aguilar
Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Unbelievable tool to find those employees that just will not adhere to the rules put forth regarding the streaming of media; I am talking about those bandwidth hogs that treat your work network like their home! I have flows coming in from both mission-critical and non-mission critical locations to keep tabs on absolutely all traffic in my environment. I can't think of a scenario in my business line where it would not be appropriate to capture traffic flows for analysis.

At this point in time, almost all the anomalies I have detected have been humans utilizing the network for personal use. I have used Solarwinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer and SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer together to get a very pesky custom application re-configured due to poor performance and disruptions on the network. Wonderful tools to monitor technology and applications can only contribute to your success as an IT pro!
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Scorecard Summary

Likelihood to Recommend (142)
8.7
Usability (10)
7.7
Support Rating (55)
8.4
Online Training (1)
8.2

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


Categories:  Network Performance Monitoring,  Network Troubleshooting,  Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Features

Has featureTightly integrates with SolarWinds NPM providing valuable insights into network bandwidth consumption.
Has featureMonitor 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.
Has featureApplication traffic alerting, alerts you if an application traffic suddenly increases, decreases, or disappears completely.
Has featureAnalyze network traffic patterns over months, days, or minutes by drilling down into any network element.
Has featurePerfStack™ 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.
Has featureAdvanced application recognition allows you to identify which applications and categories consume the most bandwidth for better network traffic visibility with NBAR2 support.
Has featureCustomizable network traffic reports at your finger tips. Create, schedule, and deliver in-depth network traffic analysis and bandwidth reports with just a few clicks.
Has featureMonitor Wireless LAN Controller traffic to keep tabs on applications and clients utilizing bandwidth on your wireless network.
Has featureCisco Meraki wireless traffic monitoring.
Has featureCBQoS policy optimization measures the effectiveness of pre- and post-policy traffic levels per class map to determine if QoS policies are working as planned.
Has featureMalicious or malformed traffic flow identification with port 0 monitoring.
Has featureNetwork 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) Pricing

  • Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
  • Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
  • Does not have featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?No
  • Entry-level set up fee?Optional

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Support Options

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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Technical Details

Deployment Types:On-premise
Operating Systems: Windows
Mobile Application:No