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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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Best tool in the Network monitoring space
- Reduce time on any investigation
- Improved software compliance requirements
- Reduced staff frustration resolving “network problems”
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
- Providing real-time network analysis daily
- Visibility on network latency and high bandwidth usage
- Monitoring threats and suspicious network activity
- We have very good ROI from using NTA to monitor our network
Excellent for data replication and bandwidth monitoring
- This has had a very positive effect to our cost saving efforts
- We are able to keep ahead of traffic flow issues
- Replication and backups are consistent and more efficient.
Great Product That has Potential for Even More Greatness!
- Helps to track network utilization
- Helps to monitor activities and identify bandwidth hoggers
- Enhances security by detecting anomalies
NTA is a fully functional Netflow application
- Difficult to have hard numbers, we use it [for] troubleshooting and trending.
- [SolarWinds] NTA is useful for Internet speed utilization reporting and planning.
NTA is great for analyzing flow data and visualize it
- Has had a good impact in terms of reducing MTTR
- Gives us the ability to monitor traffic coming from specific countries
- Before we had SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), we had no way to see where the network traffic was going. Needless to say we had blind spots which we didn't know existed.
- SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) has been a very positive tool for our network management.
Easy to Use Bandwidth Monitoring Tool
- Network Insight and network traffic analysis.
- Proactive Alerts based on network traffic.
- To find bandwidth bottlenecks impacting your applications.
NTA: Go with the Flow(s)
- Still in early stages, but with NTA we believe we will be able to identify and mitigate suspicious traffic sources and prevent impact it may have on other users.
NTA - Helps you find the bandwidth
- bandwidth bottlenecks
- removal of unnecessary personnel
Solarwinds - An excellent NTA
- No more time spent chasing down slow network issues with no resolution
- Capacity planning of links
- Ability to forecast potential issues
- Helps our IT staff to be proactive in identifying problems in network or applications
- Does have a bit of a learning curve to new users.
Good network application monitor
- Improving MTTR is a positive impact
- Proactive vs reactive approach
- Complete visibility across the network
Know your Flow
- Improved monitoring for high utilization
- Application monitoring for some custom apps
Real Network Bandwidth Monitor
- Network Traffic Auditing for Youtube, Amazon prime
- Un-Recognized Application identification
- Better Bandwidth Management
Monitoring at it's best
- The ability to solve problems with connectivity has increased since we purchased NetFlow.
- The cost of NetFlow is minimal compared to other products.
- We feel that we get a big bang for the bucks we spend.
- It is used as a troubleshooting device by our department. It helps shorten the time spent in identify root cause of issues. I do not have hard numbers.
Is NetFlow from SolarWinds worth it?
- Definitely positive due to saving us time and effort figuring out bandwidth related issues.
- Also helps us determine which applications we can block to save cost.
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- Positive ROI for sure in the short term
- You will see the benefits of NTA quickly.
Great product and saved our bacon!
- It saved us from losing a contract
- Saved our reputation as a good provider
So you got traffic but don't want to just keep guessing why, check out NTA and NetFlow instead of shouting at the sky
- In some cases you might find out that instead of spending more per month for internet upgrades, you might have a problem user watching Netflix.
- Instead of buying new network gear you can better segment traffic and reduce congestion.
- Allows you to right size your Network equipment.
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- Facilitates our billing for special case internet customers
- Allows real time denial of service attack monitoring helping to keep our network running smooth
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- Less financial impact because of outages
- Insight full teams
- Deep information to help figure out issues